Do you "retire" at some point during the year?
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I meet with a handquilting group once a week. We have large tables to spread the quilts, so they're not on our laps + it's an air conditioned building.
To keep my hands busy during the summer, I embroidery or do small hand work. Just now learning to handpiece "Grandmother's Garden".
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Do many of you have to put your quilting away for awhile this time of year? The grass is growing fast and the weeds are growing faster. There's a vegetable garden to be put in and a world of clean-up work from the winter. Besides, the mornings are so pretty and so enticing that it's hard to stay indoors. I take the dog out and linger, and pull a few weeds, and dawdle, and admire the cherry tree and stall about going back inside. No regrets. The quilt will be there, won't it? In a month or two when it's not quite so inviting outside. And of course, I can always tell myself that I'm looking for inspiration, right?
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The last few days have been really nice here too. I have entertained thoughts of bringing my Featherweight out to the table on my porch. It is raining here today and we are sitting on the porch. We have a covered porch and enjoy it every day. I do handwork out here. Gardening starts next week.
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I find myself with less time to quilt in the winters due to DS's hockey schedule (practice 3-4 times per week plus games) so I get as much done spring and summer as I can. It is very hot even with air conditioning but the schedule works for me. I save binding for the summers when I can take it with me to baseball practices and sit on the porch with it. So I have alot of tops done waiting to be quilted and bound all set for my summer.
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My quilting certainly slows down in the summer. There's a lot more to do in the garden and social stuff picks up. I think people are just generally interested in doing fun stuff when the weather is warm so there are more things competing for my time than in the winter. I never really stop, though. In the evening, when the day is done and DH is watching television, I go spend a few hours before bedtime in my room. And I keep up with my quilt group once a week. Good company and good quilting.
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In the summer I go out in my caravan taking sewing machine and my latest projects. I seem to do even more . Walking, reading and sewing. I'm sure it is the glass(es) of wine I enjoy. The days seem longer and therefore more time o enjoy myself.
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