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 is our fourth episode in our Quick Tips series.

We're sharing quick episodes

full of tips to answer your most burning sewing questions. And today we're talking about your

fabric stash. So we're going to cover five ideas to help you manage your stash. All right,

our icebreaker for today, Haley, what's the black sheep in your fabric stash, the one that doesn't fit in

with all the other fabrics in there? Okay, so I have this silk fabric. It's red. It's like a beautiful,

like warm, tomato-y kind of a red, and it has this bird of paradise print on it. It's like very, like, large

print, but airy, there's, like, a lot of negative space. It's cool. I like it. It's, like,

vintage. It's from the 80s. And I, I think I, someone gave it to me. This is, like, always the

case with, like, the weird fabrics in my stash. And I always thought, like, oh, I should make, like me. This is like always the case with like the weird fabrics in my

stash. And I always thought like, oh, I should make like a little like slip dress or something

for like vacation or something like that. It seems like it would be perfect. But I like never get

around to it. But it's like kind of fun and quirky, but I don't know. It's still there. It's definitely like not a color I typically wear.

Yeah. Or like I never really go for any kind of tropical print. But, you know, I love a theme. I love like, especially when you're on vacation, you're like, yeah, why not wear things I

wouldn't wear? I have a really pretty tropical silk that I bought when I was in Japan years and

years ago. That is so pretty. But again, like you, I don't really wear tropical. Not that I

wouldn't wear it. It's also only a yard or a half. So I don't really know exactly what to do with it. But it is very pretty. I just don't know what to do with it. And it's like silk. So you're like it's nice quality. Yeah. It's lovely. It's really lovely. I keep thinking I should give it to somebody who would have a use for it. I think mine, I have this fabric in my stash that is, it's really cute.

It's just not me.

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