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 ideas for cleaning up your sewing space in just 15 minutes.

So we're going to cover why a messy space is such a block, what makes cleanup hard for us,

and Haley's surefire seven-step process for cleaning up your space in only 15 minutes. Haley wanted

to add a caveat that that's as long as it's not a huge, huge mess.

Yes, small to moderate messes. So if you have kind of a normal size mess in your sewing room,

we've got a solution for that today. All right. So our icebreaker for today, it actually comes

from our sample sewer, Areta. And Areta asks,

what are your bad habits when it comes to sewing? All right, Haley, I'll let you start with this

one. Mine is very relevant to the topic today. I mean, I definitely have like a handful of bad

habits. I think that the two that come to mine are kind of related.

The first one is that I often will cut out a pattern and then forget that I have it cut out and then find it, like, amongst my patterns.

You know, a year or two later. I'm like,

oh yeah, I forgot. I was going to start that project. And then related to that, I also have a bad

habit of just not finishing projects. It's not like I do it all the time, maybe like one in

every five projects. But I feel like it's when I

get to a place with a project where I'm starting to realize that maybe I don't like it as

much as I thought it I would. Yeah. And my sewing time is so limited that I don't want to spend a

bunch of time sewing something that I don't think I'm going to like very much. And so I

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