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

Welcome back to Seamark 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 three steps to letting go of mistakes.

And we're going to cover what to do when you start to feel really frustrated when you're sewing and how you can recover quickly so you can get back to having fun.

All right, let's start with our icebreaker for today.

So today's icebreaker, I'm just going to read it the way it's written.

And it was written by Sally G.

So thank you, Sally, for contributing this question today. So Sally says, so my icebreaker is

something my friends and husbands have mentioned. She says husbands. I don't know if she's talking

about multiple husbands. My friends and husbands have mentioned a lot. I talk to myself during sewing, as in I make a dialogue like being my own teacher.

Well, I'm not always aware that I'm doing this, but I do like talking out loud during my sewing.

For example, I might say, okay, so now I'm going to cut out my fabric, or should I check the instructions once again before I commit?

I find it helps to crystallize my thought processes.

Does anyone else talk out loud to

themselves in this way? So thank you for that question, Sally. I was thinking about this.

I think I talk to myself when I sew, but probably not more than I do when I'm doing other things.

What do you think? Do you talk to yourself a lot when you sew? I agree. Probably no more than I

normally do. And I tend to do this

when I'm like kind of moving on to like the next step, like, okay, I interfaced everything.

Okay, cool. Let's stay stitch at all. So I do that. This makes me think of something that when I first

started teaching sewing, I had this. There was another teacher that I knew and she helped mentor me

and like kind of teach me tricks of running a classroom and stuff. And she told me that to get in the

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