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 joy and intention.

Today we're talking about the best methods for you to use to store your fabric.

We're going to cover what's worked for us and what hasn't worked, the most important things to

consider when it comes to storage, and three recommended methods for storing your fabric and

who each of them work best for. All right, so let's get started with our icebreaker today.

Today's icebreaker comes from seamwork member Christy, and Christy asks, because I am the, quote, crafty one in my circle, I seem to

attract odd donations of fabric and yarn. What's the strangest thing you've been given because you're the

crafty one? And how do you clean or get rid of that old smell out of old gifted fabric? What did you make out of it? Have you ever had a rumple

still skin moment with your sewing? How about you, Haley? What weird things or unusual odd donations

have you been given? I mean, so many, like Christy says, when you're the crafty one,

people just give you their trash, like all the time. You're just like, oh, you so, you must like

trash. So I actually just remembered one that was, this one was really funny.

I didn't rumple still skin it, but this one time when I worked in a fabric store,

this person brought like their like mom dyed or something.

And they brought all of her sewing patterns into the fabric store.

And it was just like a ton of costumes, like vintage costume

patterns. They were bananas, just totally bananas. And like half of them were racist. I'm like,

I don't, I can't use this. I feel like I need to like do the world a service and burn it in a fire because no one should be making these things.

Those just went directly into the recycling.

But it was just a weird assortment of things, men's underwear patterns with like really groovy, sexy illustrations

on the covers and weird racist costumes and then like not racist costumes. Like, I don't know,

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