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

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio.

So today we're talking about how to make sewing feel fun and playful.

We're going to cover how to plan your projects you have fun when you need to have fun, how to improvise more when you're sewing, and how to approach each project so you don't lose your flow.

All right, let's get to our icebreaker today. This one came from Deborah D. And Deborah says, I'd like to hear about people's best sewing saves.

Mistakes that they made when garment sewing that they had to somehow miraculously turn around to make a garment work.

As I am a perfectionist of the highest order, I don't tend to have any that don't involve recutting pattern pieces or repurchasing the same fabric to remake or making the garment in another fabric.

I prefer crafts where raw materials are reusable.

I've been known to unravel entire sweaters numerous times if I don't like the final result.

That's a great one, Deborah.

What about you, Haley?

Do you have a good sewing save?

I mean, I've definitely ruined and saved many, many projects.

Most recently, I made maybe like back when this pattern first came out, the Ruth dress that we have.

It's a cute little wrap dress.

I made it.

I liked it.

I probably should have made a muslin because the bodice

never fit me quite right. I wore it a couple times and it just hung out in my closet, but I loved

the fabric. And last spring, I hacked the bodice off and like sewed a little waistband on it and

made a wrap skirt and then took the bodice

scraps and I made a ridiculously huge scrunchy and then cut up the larger bits of the bodice

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