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.

Today we're talking about why the clothes we sew sometimes end up unworn in our

closets and what we can do about it. We'll cover the five most common reasons handmade garments

don't get the wear they deserve and share practical strategies for making design decisions

that lead to pieces you'll reach for again and again. All right, our question opened us up today,

Haley. Tell me about a time when you sewed something you were really excited about but ended up

never wearing it. So what happened? Okay. I made a ret jacket about maybe just over a year ago.

And it was like a drab kind of green color, which I like.

I think it's like very classic, never goes out of style.

And I thought I was going to do like a cool design detail and do some like denim gold top stitching.

Mm-hmm.

And it looked good, like, isolated when I did my test swatch.

Yeah.

That looks really nice.

They're like colors mesh well together.

It's subtle.

And then when I finished it and I tried it on, I think there was two things at play.

I wish that I would have chosen a

fabric that was a little bit heavier. I chose a twill and some twills can have that like almost

slight sheen to them that you like in some lights you can't tell but in some you can. Yeah. And that coupled with the gold top stitching, I felt like a lepricon every time I put it on.

A lepricon.

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