I'm Sari.

And I'm Haley.

And this is Seamwork Radio.

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio, where we share practical ideas for building a creative process so you can sew with intention and joy.

Today, we've got a special sewing roundup episode for you where we talk about the things we're making, what we're excited about, what new things we're trying, and answer some listener questions. And we've also come up with a few new segments that we're going to share in this episode. We're going to be rotating the segments in these episodes in the future. So if you have an idea for a segment,

we would love to hear it. It's been kind of fun to come up with them, but we'd love to hear what

you guys think. We're going to start with a listener question. So this one came from Amy,

and Amy asked, what's your most impressive rescued sewing project, And how did you go about making it work?

Oh, I have one.

Yeah.

I don't know if I think I, maybe I've talked about this.

Maybe I haven't.

But one time, this is like 2012 or something.

I made this dress and it was very like of the 2010s vibe. It was like a fitted bodice, like four dart bodice

and a gathered skirt and like a fun novelty print, right? It was very cute. It was a new to me

pattern though and I of course didn't make a muslin because why? Why would I? And it turned out with the funniest, like, proportions. The neckline and shoulders were enormous on me. The bust fit and then the waist was big. So the waist is like easy to take in. I knew what to do

there. But on the upper torso, I was so lost at what to do. I really liked the fabric. I bought it

at the store I was working at. We were sold out of it. So I was like, I can't recut the bodice.

So I came up with this idea to add a pleat to the

neckline, like a pleaded detail to bring in the neckline and make it fit a little bit more.

But I didn't want it to look like I was fixing a mistake. So I was like, okay, how do I make this look like it was an intentional choice?

So what I ended up doing is I went with the pleat detail, but I added like a matching ribbon so that the pleat wasn't sewn, it was tied with the ribbon.

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