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

Hi everybody, welcome back to Seamwork Radio this week. So today we're talking about how and why

you might want to create a personal sewing challenge for yourself. So we're going to cover my own

personal sewing challenge and why I've decided to take one on, how personal sewing challenges can

change your perspective on things like your identity, your life, and really so much more.

And we're also going to be sharing some tips for creating your own challenge if it's

something that you're interested in doing. So I'm really excited to talk about this today because it's

been heavily on my mind lately. And I'm wondering, Haley, have you ever done a big personal challenge

around sewing? Ooh, I always like like a mini challenge just because I feel like it keeps my like creativity a little bit more fresh.

And I tend to like bounce around a lot from idea to idea and project to project.

And that's something I've learned to like embrace about myself.

But I definitely challenge myself to like try new

types of projects and sewing techniques often, but never in this like kind of like big way.

Yeah, I think they can be really inspiring and helpful. And I'm inspired by the one I'm starting right now, which we're

going to be talking about in a few minutes in a pretty big way. The only challenge that I've

really given myself that I think would be like a big sewing challenge or at least sewing adjacent

challenges. I did a year of not buying any new clothes. This was quite a long time ago.

So this was something that was kind of going around on blogs back in the day. And I don't remember

what it was called. I think it had a name and you could sign up and pledge the challenge for

different periods of time. So you could do three months or six months or a year. And I started out

doing just, I think, three months of not buying any new clothes. So the idea was that everything would be

either made by you or it would be secondhand. And after three months, I enjoyed it so much that

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