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Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity — 295 episodes

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How to Plan Your Fall Wardrobe Now (Before It's Too Late)

2

The Myth of the Perfect Sewing Space (And What Actually Matters)

3

5 Sewing Mistakes That Don't Actually Matter

4

Listener Q&A: Your Summer Sewing Questions Answered

5

What Your Closet Outcasts Are Trying to Tell You

6

Finding Your Summer Uniform: The Power of Repeatable Outfits

7

How to Finally Conquer Zipper Anxiety

8

Quick Tips: 5 Tricks for Sewing Lightweight Summer Fabrics

9

The Best Kind of Sewing Project for Summer (Not What You Think!)

10

Why Your Fabric Stash Feels Overwhelming (And What to Do About It)

11

5 Decisions That Make or Break a Summer Garment

12

Spring Sewing Roundup: What We're Making, Trying, and Loving

13

How to Choose the Perfect Seam Finish for Any Project

14

The Secret to Designing a Travel Wardrobe That Actually Works

15

These 10 Sewing Skills Look Hard but They're Surprisingly Easy

16

What Nobody Tells You About Thread (But Should)

17

Seamwork Studio: What We're Making, Trying, and Loving Right Now

18

5 Easy Outfit Formulas for Unpredictable Spring Days

19

Mistakes We Keep Making (And What They've Taught Us)

20

Stop Forcing Yourself to Sew: Try This Instead

21

5 Ways to Minimize Stress While Sewing

22

Seamwork Studio: Making Time, New Patterns, and What We're Creating Now

23

Closet Confessions: What We've Learned from Rewearing Our Favorites

24

Why You Never Wear That Garment and What to Do About It

25

Sewing Goals for 2026 Could Transform Your Creative Practice (+ Sharing Ours)

26

6 Simple Ways to Plan Your Sewing (So You Actually Have Time to Sew!)

27

5 Ways to Sew Holiday Clothing You'll Actually Wear Again

28

Fancy Up Your Favorite Pattern: 10 Details to Add

29

5 Essential Tips for Sewing with Sheer and Lightweight Fabrics

30

What We're Sewing Now: Fall Projects, Rescued Makes, and New Patterns

31

How to Choose Your Next Sewing Skill (Without Getting Overwhelmed)

32

Permission to Play: 10 Ideas to Bring Joy Back Into Your Sewing

33

The Style Shift: How to Evolve Your Wardrobe when Life Changes

34

Got 20-Minutes? How to make creative progress when you have limited time.

35

Seamwork Studio: New patterns, shift dress ideas, and a fave notion for sewing buttons.

36

6 Tips for Perfect Corners Every Time

37

Our Top 10 Fabrics for Fall Sewing (And What We'd Make With Them)

38

5 Helpful Tips for Planning Your Fall Sewing

39

Seamwork Studio: Fall Patterns, Slow Productivity, and a Favorite Tool

40

Summer Sewing Reflections: What We Made and What We Learned

41

Fabric Shopping with Intention: Building a Stash You'll Actually Use

42

Palette Cleansers: How to Find Quick and Satisfying Projects

43

The Perfect Hem: 5 Professional Techniques for Beautiful Finishes

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5 Secret Notions for Professional-Looking Knit Garments

45

5 Tips for Adding Built-in Support for Your Sewing Projects

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Roundup! What we're working on now

47

Our Best Tips for Buying Swimwear Fabric

48

How to Build a Fabric Palette (in 5 Steps)

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How to Add Details that Make Your Clothing Feel Truly Special

50

Roundup! What we're working on now

51

5 Fabrics Perfect for Summer Sewing

52

Finding Time to Sew: 7 Ways to Fit Sewing Into Your Busy Life

53

Set Sewing Goals That Reflect Your Values (step-by-step)

54

We Tried the "3 Word Method." Here's What We Learned.

55

5 Steps to Organize Your Stash (So You Use it!)

56

Roundup! What we're working on now

57

Our Top 10 Projects to Sew in Linen

58

5 Ways to Find Vintage Inspiration for Modern Sewing

59

Sew With Knits: Our 10 Must-Have Tools

60

4 Unconventional Fabrics That You've (Probably) Never Sewn With

61

5 Easy Ways to Break Self-Doubt and Build Sewing Confidence

62

Wardrobe Feeling Bland? How to Sew Garments That Make a Statement!

63

Why You Hate Sewing Basics (And How to Make Them FUN)

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5 Tips for Wearing Your Wardrobe Outcasts

65

Gardening Wisdom That Changed Our Sewing Lives Forever

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10 Tips to Design Your Wardrobe for Comfort

67

Transform Your Sewing Space into a Creative Sanctuary

68

10 Tips for Learning to Sew: A Conversation with Glory Allan

69

Best Habits for Staying Organized With Your Sewing

70

10 Winter Fabrics You'll Love to Sew

71

How to Use Fashion Trends to Elevate Your Personal Style (Re-run)

72

How to Quiet Your Inner Critic and Get Back to Sewing (Re-run)

73

Identifying Your Sewing Style: Are You an Ambitious or Cautious Learner? (Re-run)

74

(Re-run) A Bright Spot in the Dark with Ashley

75

Lessons Learned From 10 Years of Seamwork

76

How to Navigate Fabric Stores with Intention

77

6 Tips for Sewing with Limited Time and Energy

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5 Ways to Embrace Seasonal Changes Through Sewing

79

The Art of Slow Sewing: 10 Tips to Enjoy the Process

80

5 Things to Consider When Choosing Fabrics for Special Occasions

81

Sewing With All 5 Senses Part 2: Sound, Smell, and Taste

82

Sewing With All 5 Senses Part 1: Sight and Touch

83

10 Tips for Altering Your Clothes With Allie Upcycles

84

Tips for Sewing With Knits, With TomKat Stitchery

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5 Tips for Making Your Own Sewing Patterns, With Cornelius Quiring.

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10 Tips for Buying and Sewing Lingerie Fabrics, With Sophie Hines

87

5 Strategies to Help You Sew More Often

88

10 Tips for Upcycling Your Clothes with April From Coolirpa

89

Finding Balance and Living Intentionally: A Conversation with In Kinship

90

Sewing For Kids: 10 Tips From Tilly and the Buttons

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Pro Patternmaker Reacts to Common Fitting Myths

92

Secrets From a Pro Patternmaker: How Patterns Are Made

93

5 Ways to Sew From Your Fabric Stash

94

Space Camp Part 4: Organize Your Sewing Space

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Space Camp Part 3: Audit Your Sewing Space

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Space Camp Part 2: Strategize Your Sewing Space

97

Space Camp Part 1: Explore Your Sewing Space

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These Unexpected Apps Will Level Up Your Sewing

99

5 Tips to Choose the Right Fabric For Your Sewing Project

100

5 Books on Creativity That Changed The Way I Think

101

How to Stay Excited About Your Sewing Queue

102

The 5 Best Summer Fabrics

103

3 Steps to Edit Like a Designer

104

How to Sew Outside the Algorithm

105

Should You Sew Your Wedding Outfit?

106

How To Get Started With Zero-Waste Patterns

107

How Sewing Teaches You to Want Less

108

5 Outfit Formulas You'll Wear All Spring

109

How to Wear Vintage Without Feeling Like You're in a Costume

110

How to Sew a Wardrobe You'll Still Love in 10 Years

111

Tips for Navigating a Style Transition

112

How to Use Style Signatures to Create Your Dream Wardrobe

113

5 of the Biggest Lessons We've Learned from Design Your Wardrobe

114

How to Create Your Spring Color Story

115

Why Editing is the Secret to the Perfect Wardrobe

116

The Best Ways to Find Inspiration On Pinterest

117

Haley's Spring Trend Forecast

118

How to Discover Your Creative Purpose

119

5 Tips for Thrifting Your Next Sewing Project

120

10 Things To Do When You're Not Feeling Creative

121

5 Tips to Upgrade Your Sewing for Cold Weather

122

Portland Pattermaker Panel LIVE From Stitchfest

123

Seamwork Radio LIVE at Stitchfest: Part 2

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Seamwork Radio LIVE at Stitchfest: Part 1

125

50 Ideas for Handmade Holiday Gifts

126

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

127

5 Ways to Manage Your Fabric Stash

128

Quick Tip Series: 5 Ways to Make Your Sewing Projects More Polished

129

Quick Tip Series: 5 Sewing Machine Maintenance Tips

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Quick Tip Series: 5 Scrap Busting Ideas

131

How to Face Your Sewing Fears

132

How to Tackle Your UFOs

133

10 Sewing Adjacent Hobbies to Try

134

5 Tips for Organizing Your Closet

135

10 Things We Wish We Knew as Beginners

136

10 Ways to Stop Burnout Before it Starts

137

Let's Talk about Trends: Fall and Winter 2023

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How to Authentically Use Trends in Your Sewing (Part 1)

139

Design Your Wardrobe Part 4: Plan Your Outfits

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Design Your Wardrobe Part 3: Define a Color Palette

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Design Your Wardrobe Part 2: Set a Goal and Make a Mood Board

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Design Your Wardrobe Part 1: Get Inspired

143

Style Workshop Part 4: Define

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Style Workshop Part 3: Examine

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Style Workshop Part 2: Investigate

146

Introducing the New Style Workshop: Part 1

147

Upgrade Your Sewing Space Pt 4: Organize

148

Upgrade Your Sewing Space Part 3: Audit

149

Upgrade Your Sewing Space Part 2: Strategize

150

Upgrade Your Sewing Space Part 1: Explore

151

Building Community: Appreciate, Listen, Share

152

8 Ways to Develop Craftsmanship So You Can Slow Down

153

The Paradox of Choice

154

Are You Ever Really Satisfied With What You Create?

155

The Advantages of Being a Beginner

156

9 Ways That Creativity Builds Self-compassion

157

What to do if Your Hobby Starts to Feel Like Work

158

Tips for Sewing Big Projects

159

A Deep Q&A With Sarai and Haley

160

Creativity is not Efficient

161

How Sewing Influenced My Life (After 20+ Years)

162

How to Build a Sewing Ritual

163

Where to Look for Confidence in Your Sewing Practice

164

How to Revolutionize Your Sewing Space

165

Letting Go of Mistakes

166

How (And When) to Ditch Your Sewing Plans

167

How to Make More Time for Sewing

168

Tips to Slow Down and Enjoy Your Sewing

169

Mailbag: Actionable Ways to Sew More Sustainably

170

How I Designed a 5-piece Wardrobe

171

Re-run: Choose Your Adventure

172

Re-run: How to Find Your Fit

173

Re-run: Design Your Wardrobe

174

Re-run: Build Your Practice

175

The 8 Most Important Sewing Skills to Learn

176

Re-run: Sewing by Design

177

How to Sew Without Overflowing Your Closet

178

How to Identify and Fill Wardrobe Gaps

179

How to Do More With Your Favorite Patterns

180

Should You Buy it or Should You Make it?

181

10 Super Cheap Ways to Buy Fabric

182

The Sewing Scaries!

183

Ways to Stay Focused in a World of Shiny New Projects

184

6 Fabric Shopping Rules Everyone Should Know

185

Mailbag: Why We Make Our Own Clothes

186

10 Tips for Buying a Sewing Machine That Fits Your Budget

187

How can I Teach Someone Else to Sew?

188

Do You Have These 20 Essential Sewing Tools? (Part 2)

189

Do You Have These 20 Essential Sewing Tools? (Part 1)

190

Jenny Doan Wants You to Break the Quilting Rules

191

How to Prioritize Your Sewing When You Have Too Many Ideas

192

How Can I Buy Less Clothing?

193

Whats the Best Method for Fabric Storage?

194

How to Clean Your Sewing Space in 15 Minutes

195

Our 100th Episode! Mailbag Questions From You

196

Why Your Clothes Look Handmade

197

Our Top 10 Favorite Fabrics and Where to Find Them

198

Are You Burned Out or Are You Bored?

199

How Can You Tell if a Seamwork Pattern is Beginner-friendly?

200

What is the Best Way to Learn New Sewing Skills?

201

What Are Some of the Best Sewing Shortcuts to Save Time?

202

The Best Sewing Books for Beginners

203

How to Find the Type of Sewing That Fits Your Goals

204

Creative Exercises for When You Only Have 10 Minutes

205

How to Sew When You Feel Stressed Out

206

3 Steps to Help You Get Past a Mistake or Failure

207

Tips for more playful sewing

208

How can I get more wear out of the things I sew?

209

Alexis Bailey's Hand Sewing Kits

210

How can I use more of the fabrics I buy (or buy more fabrics I'll use?)

211

How We Sew Through Body Changes

212

How do I Quiet My Inner Sewing Critic?

213

Is it Cheaper to Sew Your Own Clothes?

214

This Long Thread with Jen Hewett

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Choose Your Adventure

216

Find Your Fit

217

Design Your Wardrobe

218

Build Your Practice

219

Lay Your Foundation

220

Sewing by Design

221

Re-run: A Radical Change in Confidence With Jenny Rushmore

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Re-run: Daddy Dressed Me With Michael and Ava

223

Re-run: Open Up With Jennifer Wiese

224

Re-run: Let's Talk Money with Heather Lewenza

225

Mimi G and Norris: A Sewing Love Story

226

What Can You Learn from Niche Sewing?

227

Fave podcasts of 2021 with Love to Sew

228

Lessons from other hobbies, with Alexia Abegg

229

Do I HAVE to sew gifts?

230

The Decade Project: 5 Lessons So Far

231

What's Your Learning Style?

232

How to Build Your Sewing Skills Intentionally

233

How Blackbird Fabrics Came To Be, With Caroline Somos

234

Our Top 5 Fitting Resources

235

How to Start Your Fitting Journey

236

What Are Your Fit Expectations?

237

Cosplay is For Everyone

238

Semi-minimalist Sewing

239

How to Make More Time for Sewing and Creativity

240

Escaping the Cult of Efficiency

241

I Healed My Brain Through Sewing, with Nia Kelley

242

Create Your Own Personal Sewing Challenge

243

Create a Personal Wardrobe Palette

244

Going Deep with Moodboards

245

Rediscover Your Style When Life Changes

246

Paperless Sewing Using a Projector (with Fuyo of Projectors for Sewing)

247

What We've Learned From a Year of Pandemic Making

248

6 Tools We Wish We'd Bought Sooner

249

How Much Clothing Do I Really Need?

250

Finding Your Sewing Why, Part 2

251

Finding Your Sewing Why, Part 1

252

Behind the Scenes: The Seamwork Philosophy

253

A Rising Ruby Star

254

Why Buy Organic? (Featuring Birch Fabrics)

255

Taking the First Steps to Turn Your Hobby Into a Business

256

What are the signs of high quality clothing?

257

Three DIY Replacements for Disposables in the Bathroom

258

Creative Mending Tips and Ideas

259

Quick Tips to Make Paper Patterns Last

260

How to Use the Rule of Three Outfits

261

How to Prioritize Your Projects

262

What to do When Your Hobby Feels Like a Chore

263

Creativity Runs in the Family

264

Look for Hidden Sewing Fears

265

Learn to Celebrate Progress

266

Find Your Sewing Affirmations

267

Ann Lowe: Big Risks for Big Dreams

268

Where to Find Vintage and Deadstock Fabric

269

Update Your Sewing Room Without Buying More Stuff

270

How do I Get Rid of Clothes I've Made?

271

Creativity is Magic, with Christi Johnson

272

Sewing Through the Generations

273

Sewing a Legacy, the Story of Folkwear

274

The Ways We Share

275

Sewing for the Body I have Right Now, with Maggie

276

Finding Unexpected Connections Through Sewing

277

Daddy Dressed Me with Michael and Ava

278

Overcoming Mistakes with Creative Grit

279

A Bright Spot in the Dark with Ashley

280

Seamwork Radio is Back!

281

Creative Community with Kristine Vejar

282

Beating the Odds with Melissa Fehr

283

Loving a person, not their gender with Marie of A Stitching Odyssey

284

The Learning Process with Joost De Cock

285

The "head stuff" with Felicia Semple

286

Let's talk money with Heather Lewenza

287

A Shift in Mindset with Jacqui Palhegyi

288

Open Up with Jennifer Wiese

289

Design, Fame, and Villainy with Gretchen Jones

290

The Opposite of Creative Block with Leah Price

291

A Dream of Self-Sufficiency with Morgan Meredith

292

It's Worth It with Sadie Roberts of Tradlands

293

The Proud Sewist with Matthew Holloway

294

Making Your Own Mold with Charlie Wensley

295

A Radical Change in Confidence with Jenny Rushmore