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Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity

Re-run: How to Find Your Fit

Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity

Colette Media

Sewing, Dressmaking, Crafts, Sew, Hobbies, Fashion, Craft, Making, Arts, Knitting, Clothing, Fashion & Beauty, Leisure, Sustainability, Hobby, Wardrobe, Creativity

4.9763 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This re-run episode is packed with tips for finding the best fit for your clothes. You'll learn how to treat your measurements like data, diagnose a good fit, and track your fitting adjustments so you can make them quickly and easily. When it comes to fit, every body is different—it's normal to be different!

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.

0:08.0

Hi everyone, Haley and I are taking a break for the holidays and while we're gone we're

0:14.0

resharing our Sewing by Design series from earlier this year. This series was really popular and a lot of people have found it helpful for building a framework around their sewing so they can get more out of it.

0:24.4

Today's episode is the fourth step in the process and it's all about finding your fit, which is a big reason many of us sew in the first place.

0:31.6

So I hope you enjoy hearing it, whether it's for the first time or as a refresher on the whole concept of creating a sewing practice that makes you happy.

0:39.1

Enjoy the episode and we'll be back after the series is over later this month.

0:42.3

Welcome back to Seamric Radio.

0:44.2

So today we're talking about how to find the fit that's right for you.

0:48.3

And this is part of our series on sewing by design, which is our framework to help you sew.

0:53.6

And we're going to cover why fitting

0:55.4

is a challenge for most people, how to diagnose your fit in a systematic way, the two types of

1:02.0

adjustments that you need to learn, and how tracking and finding your fit can make the whole process

1:06.5

so much easier. So that's what we're talking about today. And we have an icebreaker today from

1:12.3

Julie von Nitt. And she wants to know about what our sewing accomplishment or biggest learn from this

1:19.3

past year is. So what do you think, Haley? What's your biggest accomplishment or learn from this past year?

1:25.3

Well, if I'm thinking in terms of projects, the thing that I sewed

1:29.9

this year that I'm most proud of is I sewed the Larkin bomber jacket for my husband, Eric,

1:37.1

and it just like turned out so good. It did look really good. It's really good. And I think it was also because I found like the

1:46.8

perfect like ribbing and just like everything came together so perfectly. The perfect remnant

1:52.4

for the lining. It just was like all of the stars aligned so that I could make a really

1:59.9

awesome bomber jacket. And it wasn't like anything that I could make a really awesome bomber jacket.

2:02.5

And it wasn't like anything that I felt like was out of my school range or anything,

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