Does quilting bring you comfort?
#51
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Kentucky live in WV
Posts: 8,483
Yes, beyond the comments that have been made already about the many aspects of quilting, I also find these relaxing, stress free activities related to quilting: I love going to the library, browse through my favorite quilt books and take several home, I can "park myself" at a comfy chair, sofa, or bed and am "content, calm, and at peace with the world." I do the same thing when I am in a quilt shop. I don't have to buy even a needle or a fat square. I also love "music" as I am quilting. I can forget who I am and where I am. Then, seeing all the quilts that are on this quilting board, going to a quilt show, watching a PBS quilt master, and LEARNING brings JOY.
#52
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 727
I've realized recently that most everything about quilting brings me comfort. Not just the end result - a quilt. The fabrics, colors, the processes of washing/drying fabrics, ironing them, cutting them, sewing together, squaring them, making/applying binding, on and on. It seems almost therapeutic. I can have a less than perfect day or specific problem and find great comfort and restoration in the quilting world. How about you?
#53
Love this thread! I agree with all who agree it gives comfort, pleasure, creative outlet, and satisfaction. Had to clean up my living/quilt room over a week ago for company coming, and now am itching to pull everything out and mess it up again. It's supposed to rain today, so I hope to get in my walk and then get going! But there are so many interesting topics on this board today....
#54
My son was killed in a motorcycle accident in 2007. The week between his death and memorial service I started cutting out and putting together a quilt using beautiful calming fabrics. I don't know if I would have survived if it hadn't been for the hours I spent making this quilt. I called it "Sanity". I decided to hand quilt it. It is now in a basket in my bedroom and not completed. But that is OK. Every so often I will get it out and work on it for a while and then put it away for a while. It holds many tears and thoughts and if I never finish it, that is OK also. Most of the time quilting is such a happy time for me now. I love going into my quilting room on a sunny day and working on a quilt. As I am 72 and long retired,
I like having something to get up for each day. Having a quilt waiting for me is a good reason to get up and greet the day.
I like having something to get up for each day. Having a quilt waiting for me is a good reason to get up and greet the day.
#55
Quilting keeps me sane, fulfills my need to create, & challenges my mind. Doing a bed quilt or lap quilt takes care of the need in me to be practical and doing something "artsy" takes care of the need to create something unique. I love touching, looking at fabric & dreaming of the possibilities.
#57
yes yes yes.............I live with my daughter and if I didn't have my quilting I'd go nuts with what goes on around here. Did I mention she has a 15 year old daughter that just started driving and I have to go evertime she wants to go somewhere?
#58
Mostly, yes. But I'm finishing a quilt for a show next weekend, that I'm really sick of...everything has gone wrong - I've cut pieces wrong, seamed them together wrong, screwed up the quilting and had to take it out. If this weren't for a show, it would be in a box waiting for another time. But I have to keep going, and I'm about ready to spit nails with it!!
But, 95% of the time quilting is wonderfully peaceful and relaxing!
But, 95% of the time quilting is wonderfully peaceful and relaxing!
#59
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Southern Ky
Posts: 219
Oh yes. I like it so well that I don't watch tv anymore. I used to quilt years ago and quit due to family and job obligations. Now my kids are grown and I only work part time so I have plenty of time to quilt. At present I am making tops for my husband, 2 kids, 4 grandkids, and 9
great grandkids. After I get the tops made I will decide how to quilt them. I thought about taking the full sized ones to my LAQ and trying to do the twin sized ones on my machine at home.
great grandkids. After I get the tops made I will decide how to quilt them. I thought about taking the full sized ones to my LAQ and trying to do the twin sized ones on my machine at home.
#60
I find that before I self taught myself to quilt, that knitting and crocheting were "sanity savors" as well as doing something constructive. I have three daughters (not one of the sews), and I made most of their clothes, still do sewing for g/daughters now. After I retired 10 years ago, I bought a "Quilting 101" book and learned the basics of quilting from that book. I am a widow and have lived alone for the past five years. Quiltiing is a comforting or any type of handwork is very comforting to me. When I hear women say they are "bored" I just don't know what to think. I stay busy all the time doing my "hobbies". I agree with everything else that has been mentioned in this thread. I love this board too!!!
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