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

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio.

Today we're talking about the best sewing books you can get if you're a beginner or even if you're

beyond the beginner stage and you just want to build a great library.

So we're going to cover the three

types of sewing books beginners need in their library and then our recommendations for specific

titles to pick up. So let's start with our icebreaker today. It comes from seamwork member Laura.

And Laura asks, what is the biggest sewing-related purchase that you regret?

What do you think, Healy?

This is a great question.

It's a good question.

It's a hard question.

I mean, in terms of what I've personally maybe wasted the most money on is fabric.

Mm-hmm.

But I don't know if I have any major personal sewing purchase regrets. I know something that we

always struggle with at the studio is that we have an iron on all the time because we're always sewing and thus always pressing.

And we have the hardest time.

We've gotten just so many dud irons.

In the last two years, how many irons do you think we've gone through, Sari?

I don't know. A million. It feels like a million.

It always feels like it's on the fritz and doing something weird. And we, before you ask, we have had,

you know, gravity feed irons and more industrial irons. And we just always seem to have issues with them. So I think maybe

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