Bouncing Around
03-17-2014, 11:49 AM
#23
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Rapid City, SD
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Right now I have one quilt ready to be quilted when that bug bites. I have 3 that are now ready to be pinned (pieced the backs last week). I'm piecing on a Dear Jane quilt -- just started and appliqueing on a Halloween Baltimore. I also make American Girl doll clothes once a month. I like to work on a variety of projects, which one depends on my mood.
03-18-2014, 03:14 AM
#26
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Hernando FL
Posts: 1,662
I guess I'm the odd one here as I tend to work on one project at a time especially if it is something big like a quilt. I'll admit that sometimes by the time I am finished with a quilt I am more than ready to be finished with it interest wise but I don't have UFOs that people talk about lying around this way. When I get into overload sewing I just go do something else.
03-18-2014, 03:44 AM
#28
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Thornton, Colorado
Posts: 1,023
When I go on a retreat, I find it helps to have a few projects on hand to bounce back and forth to keep me awake, lol.
03-18-2014, 04:43 AM
#29
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Timmins, Ont. Canada
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I must be odd! I do alterations for lots of folks, wedding and prom dresses (5 as we speak) and some LITE upholstery, now covering 4 dining chairs with double cording and shaped seats (new foam too) as well as two window treatments. That and quilts of valor...one being longarmed by a friend, one I am doing stars on the embroidery machine (oh did I forget to say I do logos and monogram work on that) and one is cut out and layed out, now to piece it together. I have a batik quilt planned for my DD, but it is on the back burner for now, maybe for Christmas!
I just do what drives me, or what is on deadline, 2 dresses this week, but not hard, so lots of time to work on the chairs. I do hand work at nite when I leave the studio behind. I am a nite owl, so I don't work early am. I love my sewing room, I sometimes just go out there and piddle, straighten, organize, and then leave! I get a lot done, but I do sometimes get stressed by deadlines, however I can just say no! I might have to slow down when I get "older" as I am only 70 right now!
I just do what drives me, or what is on deadline, 2 dresses this week, but not hard, so lots of time to work on the chairs. I do hand work at nite when I leave the studio behind. I am a nite owl, so I don't work early am. I love my sewing room, I sometimes just go out there and piddle, straighten, organize, and then leave! I get a lot done, but I do sometimes get stressed by deadlines, however I can just say no! I might have to slow down when I get "older" as I am only 70 right now!
03-18-2014, 04:47 AM
#30
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,334
Well, it sounds like most of us like working on several projects at once. I've decided that there's a very smart reason for doing more than one project at a time.
I discovered very early that when I have something that is very difficult for me, it's best to take myself away and let my brain go to work. I'd study at night for a test the next day and when I'd wake up, my brain would have sorted things out and I'd do well on the test. It didn't work well if I'd try to cram all that information in right before the test. The same thing works when I'm sewing or knitting... or any of the other things I like to do. When I get to a difficult spot.... I set things down and go off to work on something else that's less challenging. When I come back to whatever I was working on, my brain would have figured out what needed to be done and I'm back on track.
I know I'm not unique. My DH works a couple of difficult crossword puzzles every day. He'll work on them at night, set them aside when he goes to bed and finish them in the morning after his brain has worked out the answers that he couldn't think of the night before. He's amazed at how easy the answers are once his brain has had the time to work on it.
Yup.... the brain is an amazing thing.... and it's good exercise to give it a good workout once in a while.
I discovered very early that when I have something that is very difficult for me, it's best to take myself away and let my brain go to work. I'd study at night for a test the next day and when I'd wake up, my brain would have sorted things out and I'd do well on the test. It didn't work well if I'd try to cram all that information in right before the test. The same thing works when I'm sewing or knitting... or any of the other things I like to do. When I get to a difficult spot.... I set things down and go off to work on something else that's less challenging. When I come back to whatever I was working on, my brain would have figured out what needed to be done and I'm back on track.
I know I'm not unique. My DH works a couple of difficult crossword puzzles every day. He'll work on them at night, set them aside when he goes to bed and finish them in the morning after his brain has worked out the answers that he couldn't think of the night before. He's amazed at how easy the answers are once his brain has had the time to work on it.
Yup.... the brain is an amazing thing.... and it's good exercise to give it a good workout once in a while.
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