I'm Sari Mittnick and this is Seamwork Radio, where we tell stories about the surprising ways that sewing impacts our lives.

Hi everybody, welcome to episode number 40 of Seamwork Radio.

So this month, our theme on Seamwork is lasting.

So if you've read our issue this month, we've got a lot of great articles on that theme.

And today we wanted to highlight one of those articles.

And this is in the May 2021 issue of SeamWorks. If you go to seamwork.com

and click on magazine, you can find it. And the article is called Three Ways to Replace Disposables

in your bathroom. And in the article, Ellie Rivkin shows you how you can use some clever

DIY swaps for single use items in your bathroom

with stuff that you make yourself. So this is actually part one of a two-part series. So if this

topic is something that you're interested in, be sure to check out her article next month. That'll be in

June 2021 about reducing single-use products in the kitchen. But today we're going to be talking

about the bathroom and some ideas for replacing disposables there. So I have a lot of,

I have a lot of feelings about like sewing and waste, I feel like. I've always, I'm,

I'm somebody who really, I don't know what it is.

I really don't like wasting stuff.

I really, you have to, I mean, I think you kind of have to control those tendencies

because it can lead into kind of like semi- hoarding tendencies.

Yeah, for sure.

But I really don't like to waste stuff and I've always looked for different ways that I can use the fabric that I have to make something that's useful.

So I'm really into this topic because it kind of comes at waste from two different points of view.

It's like the sewing room waste and then waste within other aspects of your home that you can use sewing to address.

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