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

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas from building a creative process so you can sew with intention and joy.

Today we're taking a look back at our summer sewing and sharing the lessons

we've learned along the way. We're going to cover what worked well for us this season,

what we do differently next time, and how these insights are already shaping our approach to

fall sewing planning. All right, Haley, our iceberg for today, what was your favorite non-sewing

creative project this summer?

I mean, it's kind of sewing adjacent. Yeah. But I've been working on organizing my sewing room in my

stash a little bit and really, like, aggressively culling things. Do you have a method or you just kind of getting rid of stuff? It's just like a

vibe. It's just a feeling. Yeah. I'm trying to be like a little bit. I feel like sometimes I go in

these faces with methods where I go like really hard on a method. And then I'm like, you know what?

Sometimes you just need to like figure it out as you go.

Yeah.

I'm going to figure it out as you go stage of my life right now. And I'm trying to embrace it a little bit more. Yeah. My type a-ness is really thanking me. But to balance all the organization, which you know I love, that's fun for me. That's, that's creative, right? I've also just been doing like little fun home projects too,

like replacing curtains and rearranging and that kind of thing. Yeah. You think of that stuff as

being kind of like fall, winter nesting, but I really like doing it in the summer. Me too,

because then my nest is prepared. Yeah. In the fall and winter. When you see squirrels getting ready, I guess that's in the early fall that you see them doing that, but they're not like nesting. The nest is done in the winter. Yeah. I want my nest to be done. That's true. That's very true. You know, I've been thinking about that too because I've been working on a lot of home projects as well. I don't know why, but in summer I just feel like feathering the nest. Yeah, I think too where we live, it's so cloudy. Like I get into this cleaning mode when the sun comes out in the summertime because I can see all the dust. Yeah, you see the dust. And then I see all the other things. And it really has this snowball effect.

Yeah. You know, you think of fall and winter and spring, too, as being dirty here because it's so

rainy and it gets so muddy. But I've just found that in the summer, our dogs track in so much

dirt and like grass seeds. They get so many grass seeds stuck to them.

I have a funny story. We took Gordy in for a grooming this weekend. So our neighbor does

professional dog grooming. She's got a whole setup. Perfect. It's great. And we barter for it,

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