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

Hey, everybody, and welcome to episode number 33.

Today we're talking about something that kind of strikes all of us at sometimes, I think. It's, what do you do when your hobby starts to kind of feel like a chore?

So today, we're going to cover some questions you can ask yourself to figure out why you might be in a rut

and the right approach for you personally to get out of it.

So there's not just one answer for everyone.

We're going to give you a whole bunch of ideas and hopefully something resonates with you.

So a few months ago, there was this post in the Seamwork community about being in a sewing rut.

Just because of all this stuff that's been going on in the world and I think we can all kind of identify with that. So what this person wrote was, it sucks because I had all these patterns cut out,

and I was so excited, and it feels like I'm slugging around every time I even attempt to sew a little

bit. I'm trying to get back in the groove. Any tips? So I think that's a familiar feeling to a lot of us.

Oh, yeah. I don't know. I get that way sometimes. I don't know. Do you feel that way very often,

Haley? Oh, yeah, all the time. And I think that's just kind of part of the long-term relationship with

sewing. And I think, you know, we both have sewing related jobs. And this also has a

huge effect towards our, my sewing attitude. Do you feel like it affects yours as well?

I think it does to some extent. I think it used to a lot more, because I used to do an actual,

a lot of the hands-on sewing for my job, which, I mean, it's been years since that was the case. So not so much anymore,

but I think it does in that. I love to sew. Like I love doing it as my hobby outside of work,

but I don't spend a lot of time consuming a lot of sewing-related

media outside of work, just because I do it a lot within my job. So that's one way where I think

it's different just because I have a sewing-related job. What about you? Yeah, you know, I think

about sewing all the time. I mean, obviously when I'm on the clock and I mean, even outside of it. So sometimes when I used to reach for sewing, I think a little bit more as like a reprieve, but maybe not as much. I've like learned that I needed other kinds of hobbies in my life to create

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