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

Hi everybody and welcome to Seamwork Radio. Today we are talking about a framework that we've

been working on called Sewing by Design and we're going to cover what it is and tell you a little bit about why we think this process, this framework of sewing by design could really help you. We're going to be covering this all month long, actually, and probably into next month even. So expect more about this. But today I just kind of wanted to introduce the concept to you and tell you a little bit about it. So we're going to start as usual with an icebreaker. And today our icebreaker is,

what's a sewing skill that intimidated you for a long time? So Haley, what's a sewing skill that

intimidated you? Okay. This is easy. So I think that the sewing skill that intimidated me the most for the

longest time is sewing knits. So I didn't sew with knits until I'd been sewing for like at least two

years. And I think it intimidated me because I had this instructor who was like a real like hater about nits.

She just like was always talking smack about them and how hard they were to sew with.

And then finally I decided like, screw that.

I'm going to make a t-shirt.

And I made a t-shirt.

And so it was so much easier than I had anticipated.

I had like done so many things at that point. I'd made like tailored shirts and like sewn with silk and on the bias and all sorts of things. And I was like, really? Like this is what's like I'm not feeling really confident about for some reason. And haven't looked back since I love I love sewing

with knit snow so it was definitely more of a mental block than anything yeah I think I kind of

felt the same way about nits for a long time early on with sewing because it's it feels so different

from sewing with wovans and you kind of feel like, oh,

I need some extra equipment, you know, I can't do it without a surger, I need this, I need that.

And it, it is different. But once you learn the basics of it, it's actually easy and it's

a lot faster than sewing with wovins. Totally. I love sewing with knits now, but I could totally see that.

I think probably a lot of newer sewers probably feel that way. Yeah, I think for me, something that

I would say intimidated me for a long time and maybe still does is making jeans. I think it's because I realize that a lot of the

fit and a lot of the quality of the jeans is really dependent on the fabric. And so if you don't have

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