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10-14-2014, 09:07 AM
#41
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Southern California
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I relate! I bring good supplies, start out great, then fizzle. Once I get home I do good work. Still, I love workshops because they get me started on something I wouldn't have done otherwise and I usually learn something good == a new technique, a new way of thinking, a new tool. It's also a good day of socializing and making new sewing friends.
10-14-2014, 09:13 AM
#42
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Lost in my sewing room
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Jennie and Me--you are certainly not an oddball because I can so relate to getting more sewing done by myself and in my own environment too. I may be a little anti-social but I have been to more than one class where the fastest one in the class made me feel too rushed and then frustrated because I am not a fast sewer. When this happens I just don't want to play anymore. I have also been in classes when the "fast" person finished the class was basically over. I do love the tutorials and youtube videos available as I can go back as many times as necessary to get a technique more clearly explained/shown.
10-14-2014, 12:35 PM
#44
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Horicon WI
Posts: 72
I love retreats because I get so much done. But as for classes. I seem to get real frustrated and do the most stupid things. I teach so this is very humiliating to me. I do as much as I can to get the technique down then I finish (ha ha) at home. Some times I just listen and take notes and watch.
10-14-2014, 01:10 PM
#46
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Independence, MO
Posts: 3,560
I feel the same way. Our sewing club has mini-retreats after our meeting each month. With 12 or more women setting up machines in the small space that we have, it gets pretty crowded. I am claustrophobic and it unnerves me when I try to sew under those circumstances. I love the friendship and socialization, but I prefer to sew at home.
10-14-2014, 01:16 PM
#47
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Independence, MO
Posts: 3,560
I don't do the guild thing, not to say I live in the boondocks, but it's two miles to my mail box. I just started quilting this past January, but with the help of the kind folks on this forum and the helpful information on the internet, I've come along pretty well. A hearty thank you to all!
By the way, I'm a 68 year old man.
By the way, I'm a 68 year old man.
10-14-2014, 01:23 PM
#48
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Here and there
Posts: 1,669
It's too much trouble to pack up the sewing machine and all supplies, set them up at a table that is either too high or too low, sit in a chair that is too high or too low, discover that I have left scissors, rotary cutter or other indispensable item at home, beg or borrow the item from someone better organized, eat a cold lunch or supper or both, pack everything and drag it to the car, get it home and take it inside and try to find all the things that are now hopelessly out of place. The fellowship is great and seeing what other people are doing is fun and inspirational, but I have about given up sewing there unless the piece is limited to handwork. froggyintexas
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