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 keep your creative

momentum going when life gets busy.

We'll cover six practical strategies from maintaining your sewing practice during overwhelming

seasons, how to choose the right projects for your energy level, and why creative time

might be more important than ever when you're stressed. All right.

So our icebreaker for today, Haley, tell me about a time when you had to squeeze sewing into the tiniest windows of time.

And what did you learn about yourself or your creative process?

Ooh.

I think, I mean, really, like the the last, like, three years of my life, I've been really

sewing with the most limited time I've ever experienced.

And I think that I've, over the course of this period, I've like employed different strategies

from sewing into teeny tiny little windows more frequently to having a little bit longer chunks that are less

frequent and kind of playing with the types of projects.

And what I've learned is that there's no one perfect solution that what works for like one month might not work for the next.

It kind of will ebb and flow with whatever else is going on and the rest of your life

and your energy levels, like, you know, your creativity bank.

But what has helped me the most to be consistent is to stay really agile in my plans.

And if my plan is getting in the way of me spending time being creative, then it's not the right plan for right now.

Yeah.

And that's what I've learned about, you know, myself.

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