How do you make time to quilt?
04-21-2010, 07:27 PM
#52
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I do force myself to do something in the house keeping department in the morning before I step foot in my sewing room. Even if it is just to clean off part of a counter or clean the bathroom sinks. Then I reward myself and allow myself to sew the rest of the day!
04-21-2010, 08:07 PM
#53
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I love that part of rewards and sewing in the same sentence, I try to sew when I can sometimes I have good intentions of sewing that day but have to do something else. Housework is the last thing on my mind but then I have to do a little I guess. he he he
04-21-2010, 08:58 PM
#56
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Originally Posted by craftybear
How do you make time to quilt? Do you set aside a time during the day to quilt?
04-21-2010, 10:40 PM
#57
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I think I have probably tried just about everything in my struggle to be "effective" like I perceive the rest of the world to be. :twisted:
I have tried:
Planning my day then night before.
Setting an alarm so time wouldn't get away from me.
Putting a schedule up on the wall (where I could see it)
Doing certain things on specific days
What I did not count on was "my personality" style not cooperating with it. I am not a regimented person, although I sorely want to be. I like flowing with the day's rhythm that beats inside my head and desires.
I have concluded that for those of us who are not really structured while being very creative - the best time to quilt is "anytime!"
I have tried:
Planning my day then night before.
Setting an alarm so time wouldn't get away from me.
Putting a schedule up on the wall (where I could see it)
Doing certain things on specific days
What I did not count on was "my personality" style not cooperating with it. I am not a regimented person, although I sorely want to be. I like flowing with the day's rhythm that beats inside my head and desires.
I have concluded that for those of us who are not really structured while being very creative - the best time to quilt is "anytime!"
04-22-2010, 03:44 AM
#59
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Location: Winter PArk, Florida
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I don't make time, I take time. I'm now retired, widowed and thot I'd have all the time int he world. Years ago when raising four sons plus DH, I would say I will do the dishes, dust and vacuum and then sew. I was never getting to the sewing until I realized that all those things would be there forever. Once I started giving sewing first priority, I was a much happier wife and more patient mother.
The other stuff got done somehow.
The other stuff got done somehow.
04-22-2010, 04:09 AM
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Location: Lansing, MI
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Originally Posted by Katrine
Making time to quilt is easy - it's trying to fit everything else in which is difficult! I like to get a couple of hours quilting in the afternoons, but I am lucky to be retired.
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