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're talking all about thread. So we're going to

cover our top 10 thread tips, including how to choose the right thread for different projects,

when it's worth investing in specialty threads, how to store threads so it lasts, and how to

troubleshoot some common thread-related problems that might be sabotaging your sewing.

All right. So, Haley, tell me about a time when you discovered that thread was actually the source of a sewing problem you'd been struggling with.

A lot of times because I feel like thread troubles are a very common beginner mistake.

Yes.

But one that stands out to me is that I would mix and match like a thread and like

bobbin thread and top thread on my sewing machine all the time because I was only had a

limited number of bobbins and I would, didn't want to waste the thread on the ones that I had already like wound

on there until someone pointed out to me that that was the issue or the cause of some of the

tension issues that I was experiencing using two different kinds of threads and I did not believe them until I started putting it

into practice. And I realized that they were correct. They were correct. And that was totally

messing up my tension in some cases. I've had so many thread problems over the years. I think thread is one

of those things that is often the cause of problems that we attribute to other things, but it's often

actually a thread problem, either like using old thread or the wrong thread or, you know, there's a lot of different things that can go wrong, which we're going to get into.

But I think the one that comes to mind is I made a dress once with silk thread, because basically I had it and I thought it was fancy.

But silk thread is very, very strong.

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