I'm Sari Mittnick, and this is Seamwork Radio, where we tell stories about the surprising

ways that sewing impacts our lives.

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 what to do when you have tons of ideas and not enough time to make them all.

I think that's something that we all go through.

We're going to cover our own struggles with having an abundance of ideas, what we've

found helpful in sorting through them, and why we think the number one criteria for what you

sew should be genuine excitement. All right. So let's start with our icebreaker today,

which comes from Regina. And Regina asks, what does your experience with emotions reflect? I think she means,

what's your experience with your emotions being reflected in your sewing? And is it possible

to compensate for that? So this came from a longer comment, Haley, you were, we were just talking about.

So if you want to, if you want to read

Regina's whole comment, you can do that on the community. But what she was talking about was really

how emotions might be reflected in your sewing. And if you can change that. So what do you think,

Haley, is this something that you have experience with?

I mean, yeah, definitely.

I think that when, especially if I am experiencing an emotion like stress because I'm rushing through a project or I'm frustrated.

I think those kinds of emotions can come across in the finished product because I'm,

I tend to maybe be, make more mistakes, be a little bit sloppier.

If I'm frustrated, maybe I'll, you know, have ripped something out five times. And then I'm like,

finally, I'm like, well, that's good enough. It's going to stay the way it is. So I think that the way,

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