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 getting to something that I think a lot of us feel but don't

always talk about, which is the emotional side of our fabric stashes. So we're going to cover

why stashes tend to grow beyond what we actually use, the guilt cycle that keeps us buying more

while avoiding what we already have, and some real

strategies for turning your stash into something that feels less like a burden and more like a

curated collection that you're excited to sew from. All right, so let's talk about our icebreaker

for today, Haley, which is tell me about a fabric in your stash that you've held

onto the longest. So what's the story behind it and do you still plan to use it?

I think that the fabric I've had in my stash that I've held onto for the longest is this really

sheer, lightweight cotton.

It was gifted to me by a friend when she was cleaning out her stash.

And there's a lot of it, like, maybe like five or six yards.

And it's pretty.

It has like a cream background and like a top and pink motif on it.

She said it was from the 1930s.

I'm not sure that it's from the 1930s.

To me it reads as like maybe 1980s does 1930s um but it's just like very pretty I don't know if it's

necessarily my taste but I can see the vision yeah of it becoming something kind of cool.

I've always thought it would be really cool for, I've always thought of it as like a special,

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