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.

Today we're talking about how to plan your sewing projects so you feel organized, prepared,

and actually have more time to sew.

We'll cover seasonal planning strategies that work for busy schedules,

simple systems for managing your work in progress,

and the game-changing power of batching your tasks.

All right, let's go to our icebreaker for today, Haley.

Tell me about a time when you walked into your sewing room

and felt completely overwhelmed by the chaos,

if that has ever happened to you.

I don't know if that's ever happened to you.

It happens to me all the time.

I have to, like, be honest,

it's totally happening to me right now because I, I did it like a

very unlike me thing in that I started an organization project and kind of abandoned it

halfway through. That always leads to chaos. It's just pure chaos. I, I overcommitted is the problem.

I never do that. No, never. And I like really like, I didn't go section by section. I kind of took an all at once approach. And so everything is like 50% done and it's totally overwhelming me. And I've been, most of my sewing stuff is in a closet so I can kind of like ignore it. But then every time I go to start a new project, I'm like open my closet and I just am filled with dread.

And so I think that I'm going to be using some upcoming weekends to deal with the chaos.

The problem is I need to drag everything out into the middle of the room to deal with it.

And I know that's going to be a multiple week process.

So I'm going to have to commit to my office being a disaster for a couple weeks.

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