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 today we're talking about how to use craftsmanship as a method for slowing down.

And we're going to cover why it can be so hard to slow down, techniques you can incorporate

into any project to slow down, and the types of projects that will help you increase your

craftsmanship and slow down as a consequence. All right. We'll start with an icebreaker.

Healy, what creative hobbies have you always wanted to try? A hobby that I have been meaning to

like check out for what feels like forever is ceramics.

I just, you know, I have like nothing to support this idea, but I feel like I would be really good at it.

You probably would.

I like hobbies that have a physical aspect to them.

Yeah, it's very physical.

Because I feel like that takes you out of like your head a

little bit. So I feel like I would really like that. Yeah, it's very physical. You use a lot of core.

I took a couple of ceramics classes in the last few years and it's physically demanding.

It's fun though. It's really fun. It's really like tactile, you know, the feeling of the clay.

And like it just sounds fun to get all messy. Like I love like making a mess. That's fun to me. So one of

these days, I'll make my dream a reality. Yeah. You can do it. What about you, Sarah? Is there any kind

creative hobby you've always wanted to try?

Well, one thing I want to do is I've been thinking about designing some textiles,

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