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 uncover your creative purpose so that your creative

hobbies feel as fulfilling as possible. And we're going to cover some quick and practical

exercises that can help you get there. All right, let's start with our icebreaker. So Haley,

tell me about a time recently when you felt creatively stuck. Oh, I think I have a good one, but it's not sewing related.

But everything is sewing related.

Yeah.

It's all interrelated.

It's all interrelated.

So right now, I'm about to start remodeling two of the bathrooms in my house, which is very

exciting and also daunting, especially as a pregnant person about to rip out

toilets from my house. I'm like, oh my God, I have to pee so often. This is a bad idea.

But I was collecting inspiration for like what I wanted everything to look like. And I just started

like adding things to a Pinterest board as you do. And when I looked at it, I was like so overwhelmed because there was like no distinct style coming out of it. It was just like, I was just kind of like going crazy with the inspiration. And I got really overwhelmed and I had to take a step back and kind of ask myself what I would do

if I was doing this process for a sewing project or if I was like designing for myself or for

seamwork. And I really like kind of had to get back to my personal values and my personal style to like start to weed through

all of the junk. It wasn't junk. It was all beautiful stuff to land on a place that like felt really good

and authentic because like bathroom remodels are not cheap. I probably won't do another one. And so you want it to feel like really authentic and something that you'll love for a long time. And it was just some moment. I was just not working in my design element. Interiors I like decorating and stuff, but it's not my bread and butter when it comes to design. And it was like a really helpful thought-provoking exercise to have to step out of my element,

but then learn to apply the skills I've learned in my own design practice to that work.

So that was a creative stack I ran into personally in the last few months.

Yeah, I think that sometimes it's that distance that you can apply that helps you,

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