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 this week we're going to cover the 10 things we wish that we'd known as

beginners. So we're going to be sharing our own personal journeys from when Haley and I were

beginners. And we're going to share the most valuable lessons we've learned since then.

And hopefully they will be helpful to you too, no matter where you are in your sewing journey.

So Haley, let's start with our icebreaker for this week.

What's the one thing or what is one thing that you sewed as a beginner that you still feel really proud of?

Oh, well, there's one particular dress that comes to mind.

And it was a yellow shift dress.

And it wasn't because it was like particularly challenging or anything.

But it was like the moment I felt like I kind of like found my voice as a designer.

I had I'd maybe been sewing for a little bit over a year.

And I'd taken this course on designing for children's wear.

And I had this amazing instructor, like very like a blunt and brash.

And she was kind of like an icon in the children's wear industry.

And she just like really like challenged me like, get out of my head of, like,

the way that I thought things should look or the types of clothing I thought people would

like and then just make things that I liked.

And so I made this, like, not even for even for like a class I was taking with her.

I made this like yellow shift dress very like 60s inspired out of this wool. And it was so cute.

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