How to Quiet Your Inner Critic and Get Back to Sewing (Re-run)
Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity
Colette Media
4.9 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Do you often find you sew accompanied by an uninvited guest: your inner critic? That little voice that questions your skills, doubts your decisions, and convinces you that your creative work is not good enough?
If so, Sarai and Haley have some tips to banish your inner critic—or at least learn to tolerate its presence.
We’re taking a break from the podcast for the holidays, so we’re re-airing some of our favorite episodes. This episode is one of our faves because we show you how to recognize, manage, and even quiet that pesky inner critic when you sit down to sew.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio. |
| 0:10.1 | Hi everyone, welcome back to Seamwork Radio. |
| 0:12.9 | So today we're going to be talking about what to do when your inner critic stops you from creating. |
| 0:19.0 | And today we're going to cover where that critical voice comes from |
| 0:22.3 | and how other people in the Seamwork community experience it and some specific practices that we've |
| 0:27.5 | come up with and also ones we've heard from the community that can help you to get around it. |
| 0:31.8 | We'll start with our icebreaker today, Haley. Our icebreaker today is what's the most |
| 0:36.2 | overrated sewing tool and the most underrated |
| 0:38.9 | sewing tool? So one of each. I think for overrated, I'm going to say something controversial, |
| 0:44.9 | but I'm not a huge user of seam gauges or sewing gauges. Some people call them. I love my clear ruler and I just use |
| 0:58.1 | it for everything. I feel like I can be so much more accurate with it. And that leads me into |
| 1:03.3 | underrated and I think a gridded clear ruler is super underrated. |
| 1:11.8 | I can't live without it. |
| 1:13.0 | I feel like it helps me to be super precise. |
| 1:15.0 | I like the ones that have little holes in them too, so you can use it like a compass and |
| 1:20.0 | stuff. |
| 1:20.7 | I'm just a huge fan. |
| 1:23.4 | My daughter is really obsessed with it and she's broken two in the last six months or so, which is rude. |
| 1:31.9 | Children are so rude. My favorite tool. |
| 1:34.2 | Toddlers are just so rude. |
| 1:39.0 | Tell me about it. Are you talking about the thin rulers or are you talking about like the really big quilting ones that are like really wide. |
| 1:45.5 | Yeah, I like the two by 18 inch flexible clear ruler. I have one of the big quilting ones, but I feel like I only really use that when I'm doing things like cutting bias tape or actually quilting. But I love the flexible clear rulers. And I'm also particular. I like |
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