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

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio.

Today we're talking about how to find the type of sewing that fits your goals.

So we're going to cover how to uncover what's your most important sewing goal right now,

how to balance having fun with your sewing while still working towards a larger goal, and

what to do when you have trouble just getting started.

All right, so we're going to start with our icebreaker today, which comes from Seamwork

member Kathy.

And Kathy asks, what skill did you develop that makes the biggest difference in your

sewing practice, Haley? There's been lots of kind of aha moments for me. I would say the skill

that helped me the most in my own personal sewing was learning more about full bust adjustments. I think that kind of like opened

the door to me understanding how to fit my body. And then things just, I felt like I was, it was

smoother sailing after that. I wasn't fighting against my body when I was sewing for myself on a more like soft skills level. I think I learned how to be patient with myself. That wasn't like something that just happened overnight. It was kind of in hindsight I can see how much more I practice patients with myself.

I've always been really patient with other people, but, you know, not so much with myself.

So those are the two things that helped my sewing the most. What about you?

It's interesting that you mentioned patience. I feel like sewing maybe taught me a little bit of

patience. I think in my early sewing, a little bit of patience. I think in my

early sewing, I was pretty impatient. But I think when I took them knitting, that really, I've probably

mentioned this before on the podcast, but I think knitting really helped me with patience because it takes

so long to complete a knitting project. And that really taught me how to slow down and enjoy the process versus

focusing so much on the outcome. I'm working on a sweater now that I just, I only knit on it

when we're watching movies or something, which is not that frequently. And it's just been

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