QuiltingCrazie

I have not been sewing as much as I should lately. Life keeps happening. My hubby deployed in December and the kids keep me busy doing other things. So to keep myself in the quilting loop I've been buying fabric, I figure when I do get back in my sewing room I'll have plenty to keep busy! I plan on getting in there this weekend I have a couple quilts that need to get done! I did make a table runner for my son a couple weeks ago for his school project.... Strangely his teacher kept it! Still unraveling that one in my head. Been too busy with the other 3 kids to deal with that! One just had his appendix out on Thursday morning. We got home yesterday afternoon, caught up on sleep so I'm hoping to spend some time in my sewing room!

ckcowl

I do work full time, in fact this past week put in 65 hours at work... I do sew just about every day. I am an early riser & don't have to leave for work until 7:45 most mornings so I generally spend an hour or more in the sewing room before work. (I get up between 4:30 & 5) so usually, cup of coffee, shower, breakfast, into sewing room by 6...I seem to be able to get a lot done in that time. I also always have hand projects to work on during breaks at work. I don't always sew in the evening-sometimes after dinner I go in for an hour... Usually when I am at the point of nearing the end of my project, and I spend as much time as possible on the weekend.

jitkaau

Quality rather than quantity is my thought. If you have quality time and product it is a win,win.

quilterpurpledog

I love to sew whenever I get a few minutes or a few hours. My sewing room is away from household traffic and a project always at the ready because I leave it out when I stop-so it is ready to pick up and go with it. I have my "office" in the same area so I easily slip from one to the other activity. I think I accomplish a lot more because I don't need to pick up, put away and then get it out again. I never get tired of sewing. I do work at budgeting my time because I would let other things slip by such as ironing and mending which I really do not mind doing. I'd just rather sew and quilt if I have my 'druthers'.

WMUTeach

My time will vary from week to week, but most weeks I get some serious time on Saturday or Sunday and a little on one or two evenings. Some time I will quilt like crazy on the week-end and then have bindings to do hand work on during the week. Often my week-night quilting is cutting or doing a long string of chain piecing and ironing, squaring up as prep a Sat or Sun afternoon of time at the machine. Bottom line..... I never have enough time for my sewing/quilting but this makes it so much more special when I do get a couple of hours to just play with my work at hand. (I am still working 40 - 50 hours a week.)

Bubbie

Hi Karlin, I feel for you. I used to work long hours 6 days a week, some times I would feel like sewing at night and other times I didn't. I quit reading the paper at home (I could read it at work, because of down time with the job and breaks), I would give my self that time to sew. I made sure to try to have things set up the night before, so all I had to do was a little sewing. I found that I was jumping out of bed a little earlier and getting into the shower first thing, then I would be awake and able to sew. Some days it was only about 15 mins other days I could get 30 mins in. This is what helped me get more sewing in. Good luck

Kath12

When I was working, I had a 2-11 pm shift so I quilted every day and sometimes I would take handwork to do on my breaks. After I retired I have less time so I try to whenever I can work it in which is at least an hour a day. We adopted our then 3 year old granddaughter (who just turned 5) and I have to work around her pre-school schedule. She starts kindergarten in the fall and will be gone all day so then I should have more time. But if my husband wants to go to lunch or wants me to go with him to run errands - I go. I just started to do English Paper Piecing so that I can do that in the evening while watching TV with my husband. I also do Redwork for the same reason ( I love Crabtree Hill patterns)

Snooze2978

I have found that when I worked nights I felt more incline to sew when I got home in the morning but now that I'm retired I can't seem to get as much sewing done as before. I have more time but no ambition, what gives with that? I also used to sew in the middle of the night on my days off too and I've done that a couple times lately and find it more relaxing than trying to do it in the day time. May have to go back to my old ways.

nygal

In all honesty, I do not work outside the home. But I am now caregiver to my 87 year old Mother who moved in with us two months ago and she has beginnings of Dementia. Starting this Thursday I will also be watching my new 1 month old Granddaughter. Ever since my mother moved in with us I have not been in the mood to quilt or sew. But I am currently happily busy working on a big counted cross stitch for the baby. No matter how busy I am with one thing or the other I still HAVE to have something to keep my hands busy be it cross stitch or knitting etc.

Luv Quilts and Cats

I am too am too tired when I get home to sew because I have to take the machine out, set everything up then take it all down because I sew on the kitchen table. I find weekend afternoons, usually Sunday, my quiet time to sew. And I have hand sewing projects to work on during the week. I have given some thought to waking up earlier and sewing which does appeal to me as a morning person. However, my brain has not convinced my body to get up earlier yet! LOL!