I'm Sarah Mittnick, and this is Seamwork Radio, where we tell stories about the surprising ways that sewing impacts our lives.

Hey, everybody, welcome to episode number 37 of Seamwork Radio.

Today we're just going to bring you a quick episode with lots of tips.

It was inspired by a video that we have on our YouTube channel called Three Tips to Make Paper Patterns Last.

And we put out that video a while back.

And it's on our YouTube channel, which you can find at Seamwork Video, if you want to check it out.

We'll also put a link in the show notes. But there were some great tips in that video that we

wanted to revisit. And then we also thought of a few other tips that we wanted to add in

and wanted to share those as well. So that's what we're going to be talking about here today.

So if you have paper patterns, whether you have digital

patterns, you have tissue patterns that you want to preserve and make sure that they last,

this should help you do that. I personally use a lot of digital patterns. What about you, Haley,

do you use a lot of tissue patterns or do you use a lot of digital patterns? What do you use more?

These days, definitely digital patterns. When I first started out with commercial patterns, it was definitely a lot of tissue back then. Digital just wasn't so much of a thing back in those days. But now I really only use tissue when I'm working with a vintage pattern. Yeah, I'm kind of the same way. When I started sewing, I mean, it was many, many years ago, so there weren't digital

patterns and I sewed with a lot of tissue patterns.

And then I got really into vintage patterns for a while.

And I used those almost exclusively for a number of years.

But now, I think almost everything I sew, unless I'm going back to my vintage patterns, is usually digital, I'd say.

And do you think about when you're sewing with digital patterns, do you think about saving them or preserving them, or do you just kind of use them and then recycle them when you're done?

I definitely preserve some of them, but only if it I know I'm going to use again. I think a number of

years ago I got into the habit of saving every single digital pattern I printed. And realistically,

I only revisit about 20% of the patterns that I sew.

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