Sewing Goals for 2026 Could Transform Your Creative Practice (+ Sharing Ours)
Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity
Colette Media
4.9 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Forget rigid resolutions that lead to disappointment. Today we're sharing a fresh approach to setting sewing goals for 2026 that focuses on how you want to feel, not just what you want to accomplish. We'll walk you through a simple process for creating meaningful, flexible goals that support your creative journey.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas for building a creative process so you can sew with intention and joy. |
| 0:18.3 | Today we're talking about setting sewing goals for the new year in a way that |
| 0:23.0 | actually feels good. So we'll cover a simple process for reflecting in what worked last year, |
| 0:29.9 | identifying how you want to feel about your sewing, and creating just a few meaningful |
| 0:33.9 | goals that support those feelings rather than adding pressure to your creative life. |
| 0:39.0 | All right, Haley, tell me about a time when you set a goal for your sewing and then completely |
| 0:44.7 | changed your mind halfway through. Tell me what happened. Okay. So I have so many knit scraps. |
| 0:53.0 | I think it's because knits come in like such wide widths that I always end up with like, you know, 18 inches near the salvage that like are just unused. |
| 1:03.9 | So true. |
| 1:04.9 | So one time I had this idea that I was going to make underwear out of all of my knit scraps because |
| 1:12.3 | it was kind of like the perfect width to fit them into. And I was really excited about the goal. |
| 1:20.0 | And one weekend I was like, I'm going to like perfect my patterns, my couple patterns I want to use, and I'm going to like make like 10. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.0 | I thought it was such a great goal. I bought all this elastic and this only thing I needed to buy. |
| 1:35.3 | And I perfected the patterns and I sewed the first like three pairs. |
| 1:39.4 | And I'm like, I'm bored. This is boring. |
| 1:43.0 | It does sound like such a good idea on the surface of it. And then thinking about actually doing it, I could see where it would get really boring. You know, I feel like it would have been like a really great like thing as a palette cleanser between like every project. I sew one or two new underwear. I think my approach was off. |
| 2:04.1 | And then I just was so like disheartened by the whole thing that I like abandonship. |
| 2:12.6 | And I maybe have sewn one pair of underwear since. I do like sewing undergarments, but it really |
| 2:19.0 | put a bad taste in my mouth. You're like never again. Never again. No more underwear. It was around |
| 2:26.1 | the time we put out the fable underwear. So this was a couple years ago, which is a great underwear pattern. |
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