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Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity

Quick Tip Series: 5 Common Sewing Bloopers and How to Avoid Them

Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity

Colette Media

Sewing, Dressmaking, Crafts, Sew, Hobbies, Fashion, Craft, Making, Arts, Knitting, Clothing, Fashion & Beauty, Leisure, Sustainability, Hobby, Wardrobe, Creativity

4.9763 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We all make mistakes when we sew. It’s normal.

Almost every project you sew might have a few sewing bloopers, but the silly little mistakes you often make are pretty easily avoidable.

In this week’s episode, Sarai and Haley talk about some of the most common sewing bloopers and how to avoid them. 

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0:00.0

I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.

0:10.1

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas for building a creative process

0:14.7

so you can sew with intention and joy. And this is our fifth and final episode in our quick tips series. We're sharing

0:23.0

quick episodes full of tips to answer your most burning sewing questions. And today, we're

0:28.4

talking about sewing bloopers. So we're going to cover some of the most common sewing bloopers and

0:33.9

how to avoid them. All right. So let's start with our icebreaker for today, Haley.

0:38.7

What's the best sewing blooper that you've ever either experienced or heard about?

0:44.2

Well, I mean, I've made lots of mistakes.

0:48.0

And as a sewing instructor, I've seen lots of mistakes for the one that I am thinking about in this moment is one time I was

0:56.5

styling on a photo shoot and there was like small designers that like dropped off their samples

1:02.7

for us to like use and one of the samples was like a shirt like a button up shirt and there

1:09.5

was two left sleeves on it well left or right sleeves I don't remember but it was like a shirt, like a button-up shirt. And there was two left sleeves on it. Well, left or right

1:11.8

sleeves, I don't remember. But it was like not intentional. And you could tell by the way that the

1:16.8

sleeve was like hanging that it was backwards. And so I was like, I don't really know what to do

1:24.2

with it. And I had to use it for whatever reason. We had to use all of the

1:28.1

samples that were provided. And so I was like, I guess we're just going to cuff, roll these sleeves

1:34.4

up and like have the model like three quarters or something. Yeah, side profile only.

1:44.2

But it was one of those things where I'm like, this is a blooper that shouldn't have happened.

1:47.4

Like someone really messed up.

1:49.1

And didn't notice.

1:50.3

It didn't notice.

1:51.6

Strange.

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