How to Prioritize Your Projects
Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity
Colette Media
4.9 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week, we address a question in the Seamwork community about how to prioritize projects and prevent yourself from getting overwhelmed. We share Seamwork members' tips, and our own experiences to give you a few ideas to try.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Sari Mittnick, and this is Seamwork Radio, where we tell stories about the surprising |
| 0:08.8 | ways that sewing impacts our lives. |
| 0:18.6 | Hey, everybody, welcome to episode number 34. |
| 0:22.0 | Today we're talking about how to prioritize your sewing projects. |
| 0:26.3 | So we're going to cover today what to do when your list of sewing projects feels a bit out of control. |
| 0:32.3 | And we're going to get lots of tips directly from the seamwork community today. |
| 0:36.4 | So, yeah. |
| 0:39.9 | Yeah, so this topic comes from a post in the Seamwork community from a few months ago. And there were so many great responses that |
| 0:46.4 | we wanted to share them and discuss a little further. So here is a quote directly from the post. |
| 0:53.8 | I have a cue that is out of hand, and I have all of the fabric for all of the things on it. |
| 1:00.5 | I just cannot seem to stop starting new projects off the list or coming up with even more fabric slash pattern combos to add. |
| 1:10.4 | I'm wondering how everyone manages to |
| 1:13.3 | prioritize what to make next. Oh man. End quote. The eternal struggle. Yeah. Sarie, do you have a |
| 1:26.2 | system for prioritizing your sewing? |
| 1:29.0 | I kind of do. |
| 1:31.3 | Mine is pretty simple. I have a Pinterest board that is like my sewing cue, basically. |
| 1:37.1 | I've gone through a lot of different variations. I think a lot of them work well, and it's just about finding you know what appeals to you most and for me |
| 1:45.0 | i found that having i like having a Pinterest board because i can just throw inspiration pictures |
| 1:51.2 | into the various like sub folders within the board i don't know what pindrs calls them you can have |
| 1:55.9 | like sub boards within a certain board in Pinterest so if i have have a project idea, I just create a subboard |
| 2:03.2 | and then throw my inspiration into that. And that kind of acts as my sewing queue. And I try to |
| 2:10.1 | pick projects off of that. And it's really, I like it. It's fun because I have all my inspiration |
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