I love how the skills you develop as a scientist can be applied to sewing and other crafts. Like science, sewing requires creativity, as well as an initial idea or concept to get going. Both are about research and experimenting, and are iterative processes, in which you apply knowledge gained from work that you and others have done previously. Despite these parallels, craftwork such as sewing and knitting is often undervalued or dismissed because it's seen as 'women's work'.