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. And today we've got a spooky episode for Halloween. We're talking

about the sewing scurries. Woo-hoo. Boo. We're going to be covering five sewing skills that seem to

really frighten people. And that's what we mean by the sewing scurries. But just like monsters under the

bed, once you take a peek, they are not so intimidating. I love this. I'm really looking forward to

talking about this today. So we're going to start with our icebreaker, as usual, before we dive into

the topic. So this one comes from Vladivos, and she says, what is your earliest fashion memory fashion memory for me it's the red dress my mom put on for entertaining at home and for when my parents went to grown-up birthdays she wore this when i was four through eight and it was her favorite i most remember the vivid red because she didn't wear a lot of color i even recreated it when I started to sew and my mom says it's a great

copy. That's so cool. I love that. I know. It's such a good story. I can almost picture it in my head,

this like vibrant red dress and how that would stick in a kid's mind. Uh-huh. Yeah. It's such an

impactful color. I'm trying to think of my earliest fashion memory. I have a lot of early

fashion memories because I was very interested in fashion from such a young age. I think the one that

really stands out to me the most is when I was about four years old. I was in a wedding. I was a flower

girl. And I got to wear, you know, a fancy dress like you do when you're a

flower girl or in a wedding party. But the dress was custom made. And it was this like deep emerald green,

crushed velvet. And I remember going into the tailors and trying it on, going to the fittings and stuff.

And it was such a delight.

I thought it was so fun.

And it was this crushed velvet.

And I would tell anyone that I met anywhere, anyone who would listen to me about this dress,

except I would call it crashed velvet, which still to this day when I see crushed velvet,

I'm like, yeah, look at that crashed velvet. Yeah, and it was crashed velvet and taffeta. It was,

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