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Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity Seamwork
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On Seamwork Radio, we share practical ideas for building a creative process, so you can sew with intention and joy.
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How To Get Started With Zero-Waste Patterns
Are you new to zero-waste sewing? Are you thinking about trying a zero-waste pattern for the first time Or are you wondering if Seamwork will ever release a zero-waste pattern?
This week’s podcast answers all those questions.
Sarai and Haley discuss the benefits and limitations of zero-waste sewing and give eight simple steps for exploring this niche. -
How Sewing Teaches You to Want Less
In this episode we discuss how sewing teaches you to want less. So we're going to cover our own relationships with consumption, how that's changed throughout our sewing journeys, and then eight ways that you can lean on sewing to help you consume less.
Show Notes:
Making Time: Sarai's personal substack all about creativity and managing her energy around it. How to Use the Rule of Three Outfits: A past Seamwork Radio episode dedicated to helping you plan and develop a curated wardrobe. Design Your Wardrobe: Our popular course helps you plan the sewing projects you'll love to wear. Style Workshop: This hands-on workshop helps you define your core style. It's FREE for Seamwork members and just $10 if you aren't a member. Podcast listeners get half off an unlimited Seamwork membership when you use this link, plus you get to keep that price as long as you’re a member! Tell us your idea for the next icebreakers for makers! -
5 Outfit Formulas You'll Wear All Spring
Outfit formulas help you get dressed easily and confidently each morning. In this episode, Sarai and Haley share five outfit formulas you can wear this spring. They cover what an outfit formula is, what makes a good outfit formula, and then five ideas you could incorporate into your own spring wardrobe.
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How to Wear Vintage Without Feeling Like You’re in a Costume
When you’re getting dressed in the morning, your goal is to wear clothes, not for your clothes to wear you. And if you love vintage fashion, sometimes it can be challenging not to feel like you’re walking off a movie set or cosplaying as a character from another era.
But we love vintage fashion.
So, how can you incorporate vintage into a modern wardrobe? Here are 7 tips. -
How to Sew a Wardrobe You’ll Still Love in 10 Years
In this episode, Sarai and Haley talk about how to sew a wardrobe you'll still love in ten years. They cover what makes a garment long lasting—both stylewise and physically—how to choose styles that you'll love to wear for years, and practical tips for making garments that stand the test of time.
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Tips for Navigating a Style Transition
Feel like you’re in a style rut? In this episode, Sarai and Haley show you how to update your wardrobe when your lifestyle, job, body, or sense of style changes.
They cover the signs you might be in a transition, give you some tools for examining that transition, and some actions you can take to evolve your style alongside your life.
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Design Your Wardrobe Changed my Life!
Episode 182 describes the Seamwork method to collection planning called Design Your Wardrobe. I first did the course when going through a big life change. The exercises helped me better understand myself and further, what mattered to me. The process of defining and naming my collection became my mantra. Whether sewing or shopping, understanding my wardrobe intentions and goals has helped me feel confident and comfortable. Before I commit time, energy and money to a purchase or project I ask myself, does this piece have Big Cat Energy? If yes, it’s going to work with my wardrobe and lifestyle. The lessons of episode 182 are life lessons as much as they are sewing tips. This sewing podcast is so much more than a hobby guide, it is a supportive community led by thoughtful and talented women who understand that when they are talking about sewing, they are speaking to a way of being and creating that shapes how we live and our relationship to what we create, and what we choose with intention. Thank you Seamwork.
Lovely sewing chats!
Always intentional, thoughtful conversations on diverse and helpful sewing topics! Haley and Sarai provide really valuable content that is structured in delivery, but still conversational, fun and feels like hanging out with your sewing buds♥️also they both have super relaxing voices so it’s like a special little self care treat to listen to when I want to chill out:)
Unique and valuable information
I often listen to these episodes several times, as well as make notes of important takeaways. Their thoughtful insights are useful again and again.
I only wish they would release episodes more often!
I became a member after downloading their excellent Design Your Wardrobe course, which I can attest to as being fabulous since I’m a trained Image Consultant. Their guidance is top drawer.