Tired of quilting?
05-21-2011, 09:13 PM
#111
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Location: Pa.
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This last week I haven't had the urge to quilt. I think its all the rain. It rather takes the wind out of ones sails. Anyway thats what I think is wrong with me. Get rid of stuff-never. Took too long to collect.
05-22-2011, 03:21 AM
#112
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Location: martinsville Indiana
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I switch back and forth between projects. Currently have 4 sandwich and partially quilted, 2 on the design wall. And then theres my selling projects, a pile of them precut and ready to sew together, and one commission wheelchair bag. If I get tired of one I go to another. Theres never enough hours in the day to accomplish all I want. So I've started making myself stop. So I guess the answer is no, I just get tired of the same project. Recently I decided to let someone else do the quilting on my older tops not finished. I figure at least they will get done and maybe I could sell or find someone in need, which ever comes first.
05-22-2011, 04:45 AM
#114
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For me quilting is like a drug. If I am not in my sewing room I am thinging about quilting. Part of quilting for me is the friendships I have formed from quilt guild and people I have met at quilting classes. maybe that is what you need to get back in the groove.
05-22-2011, 04:53 AM
#115
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Tennessee
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I concur with everything you just said. The outdoors is calling.
Originally Posted by dgmoby
When Spring/Summer roll around, I seem to feel happy to put down my quilting and begin working outside in the gardens more. I love being outdoors. I think of quilting now as my colder weather activity and summer for out of doors type activities. This keeps it fresh and new for me. I rarely have time to quilt in the spring/summer, as I stay pretty busy outside the majority of the time. But, I did have to learn that it's OK to put it up for awhile, and when I get ready, it's all waiting on me - and I'm ever so happy to get back into it! Maybe you need a summer break?
Just my thoughts...
Debbie in Austin
Just my thoughts...
Debbie in Austin
05-22-2011, 06:59 AM
#116
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OH sure.. we all get that way if we live long enough.. I have lots of things I like to do.. I weave a rug or three, I knit for a time.. make some garments.. make baskets, garden... paint.. then a quilt pattern will strike my fancy and I'm back to quilting again for a few years. The biggest trouble with all that is I have stuff to do all of those things and I'm afraid if I get rid of any of it I'll want it back in 6 months or so.. By the time you're in your 60's, it's just too much stuff!!
05-22-2011, 10:53 AM
#119
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Location: North Carolina
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I get that way from time to time, and then along comes a new pattern or a new piece of fabric that I like, or a trip to Lancaster Pa and WOW "my interest is back" and a new quilt is born!!!!
Now, I need for one of those things to happen because I am in limbo and the machines are not moving.
Now, I need for one of those things to happen because I am in limbo and the machines are not moving.
05-22-2011, 03:51 PM
#120
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Originally Posted by klc
Originally Posted by prayerquilts
Just a funny thought. I saw so many people posting today had pictures of sewing machines. I mentally heard. "Ladies start your engines" and hearing everyone reeving up their machines. :)
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