In the moment, it felt like it would never end, that there was no little light at the end of the tunnel, that basically it was just a tunnel and nothing was going to change.

But slowly, slowly, you know, things can change. things can get better.

From Seamwork Magazine, I'm Sari Mitnick, and this is Seamwork Radio, where we tell stories about designing, making, and wearing our own clothing.

Imagine for a moment that you've decided to write a novel.

No, you won't be able to concentrate on writing while you're working full-time, so you

quit your job.

You need quiet and privacy to write, so you convert a room in your house to a writing den.

You buy the perfect desk,

most comfortable chair, new laptop, expensive pen. But when you sit down to write, just nothing

comes out. You stare at a blank page for hours, and then for days. You'd set up all the perfect conditions for creating,

but the creating just never happened. We often call this writer's block, but it's familiar to most

creative people. You give yourself everything you need, all the freedom in the world, but the

freedom of the blank page is what ends up crippling you.

At the other end of the spectrum, there are these times when creativity just bubbles up in us,

even in the most unlikely circumstances, when things feel really dark and bleak.

Maybe you have a parent in the hospital, and you deal with it by writing a poem.

Or maybe you're facing the end of a marriage.

You start taking photographs to process what's happening.

These are the times when you realize how unstoppable human creativity really is.

Not when you have everything you need, but when things seem on the brink of collapse.

Leah Price has found creativity in these kinds of constraints.

Her life has turned out to be something entirely different from what she pictured.

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