Originally Posted by Pegleg
Keep your machine set up all the time and steal 5-10 minutes every day. When you need a break from grading grab a few minutes.
When you throw something in the oven grab a few minutes. You may want to add a timer to your sewing room, just in case you get too involved. You deserve to have time for yourself and your quilting. You need not give up something you love to do. Yes, I know that 5-10 minutes doesn't sound like much and the project could last forever...but at least it will get you some you time and someday a new quilt to love. |
Me again i dont know but at Christian School where I teach I also do the Home Ec and Art classes. So for the Home Ec class we make Quilts to give away at Christmas and Easter so I get quilying in that way also. Maybe you could do that with some of your students. It is amazing how many students want to learn how to quilt.
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What quilt as u go method do u use? Wrote out qayg for any beginners. After much reasearch I have seen the
"Cotton Theory" method but like this teacher I haven't had time yet to cut/sew. Have some blocks finished and not sure what is best method.
Originally Posted by Cyn
Try the quilt as you go method because you can use time away from sewing room/supplies to quilt. I love it. I get all but hand sewing done and carry around that so when I am sitting waiting on appointments, traveling, dinner to cook, laundry to dry or what ever- I can sew! I'n surprised by how fast it goes.
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This week read about managing time in AAA mag. The "PICKLE JAR Theory" is the best I ever heard. Going to use it.
Can see on google I imagine. |
Originally Posted by Mornigstar
What quilt as u go method do u use? Wrote out qayg for any beginners. After much reasearch I have seen the
"Cotton Theory" method but like this teacher I haven't had time yet to cut/sew. Have some blocks finished and not sure what is best method.
Originally Posted by Cyn
Try the quilt as you go method because you can use time away from sewing room/supplies to quilt. I love it. I get all but hand sewing done and carry around that so when I am sitting waiting on appointments, traveling, dinner to cook, laundry to dry or what ever- I can sew! I'n surprised by how fast it goes.
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Thank you so very much as I have been in a quandry over
how to QAYG on these blocks as I didn't start it. Happy to look at differnt methods and will try to buy books within a few days. will go online to order but can not do today. |
Hold on, Christmas vacation (or winter break) is on its way....quilt all night long if you want!
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I too had a job that "fell into my lap" and the money was too hard to ignore. I was MISERABLE. I'm not a teacher -licensed for home and auto insurance. I went from a small, peaceful office 10 min from home to a "pod person" (cubicle) in a busy nationwide insurance agency with a 30 min. commute with horrible traffic and drama with office politics. I hated every minute and lasted a year. Thankfully, DH and I were able to retire. Whoever invented "cubicles" should be shot at sunrise. Don't hesitate to take a step away from the madness if you can. Quality of life as opposed to quantity has a lot to offer.
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Know what you mean, am a rtired high school teacher.
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As a full-time online instructor, I rarely accomplish all I want to do - a true "V-8" challenged quilter. Never balanced. SMALL, SIMPLE, and IN THE MOMENT projects. And then most of those short periods of "FREE TIME" is reading quilting blogs, magazines, loving the ART from a distance and that helps.
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Auntjo -- you are looking a little peaked to me. Are you feeling feverish? Head aching a bit, throat a bit sore and scratchy? Perhaps you need to take a sick day and stay home and stitch until you can't see straight? After all, you wouldn't want the students to catch whatever it is that you seem to be coming down with...
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