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maryellen2u 03-26-2013 01:18 PM

I do not have a clock in my sewing room. I do wear a watch but when I am sewing I rearely look at it. I know I need to move and change activities about every 45 minutes to give my arthritis attention. My sewing room is llike the casinos--timeless. Thankfully I'm retired so I don't have to run my life by the clock anymore. I love it when I am in that "Zone" in my sewing room!

patdesign 03-26-2013 02:27 PM

I do because I teach sewing and if I didn't have the clock we would keep sewing past the time for the student to go, not so much a problem for me as the student who is trying to fit several trips together sometimes.
Pat

Nammie to 7 03-26-2013 02:48 PM

My machine tells me the time - but only pay attention to it when I want to watch a favorite program. I'm constantly amazed at how fast the day goes when I'm doing something so fun!

Becky Crafts 03-26-2013 03:54 PM

I don't have a clock in my outdoor work area & yesterday I had to do a lot of work in the garden as we're staking our tomato plants which are really getting big. While my husband was making metal clips to hold the stakes up, I sandwiched a quilt, then went back & worked until I hurt too bad to do any more. I still have a few boxes to do, but most are done & today was too cold. When we got hungry, I went after supper.

Judie 03-27-2013 05:44 PM

Oh my yes I have a clock.. in fact I have 3 in my sewing room that I can think of.. I'm one of those people who likes to know what time it is.. sort of.. I don't want to have to hunt to see the time.. I just want to glance up and see if it's nearly something.. like nearly 1 or almost half past.. I don't care for digital clocks that give the precise minute.. I just want to know 'about' what time it is, therefore I have analog clocks, except for the clock radio. I have several clocks in every room of my house.. Time change is an ordeal here! haha....

Rose_P 03-27-2013 06:42 PM

One time I got wrapped up in my sewing and completely forgot that my neighbor was expecting me for lunch that day. I remembered when I got hungry about 2 hours too late. That was more than 30 years ago and I still feel guilty for standing her up like that! Having a clock in the room doesn't help me because I don't think to look at it. I have to set a noisy timer if I need to keep any sort of appointment.

jfowles 03-27-2013 07:27 PM


Originally Posted by QuiltnNan (Post 5950413)
my body tells me when it's time to give sewing a break :)

Well put, that's when I move on to something else. Some days hours, some days only a few minutes and I'm done, only to come back when the urge overtakes me.

Ruby the Quilter 03-27-2013 07:51 PM

I aspend hours in my sewing room. Do have a clock and now the time is right with day light savings time. change Really don't use it unless I'm on my Pilates machine and want to do 20 minutes.

one-and-only 03-28-2013 01:27 PM

my machine has a clock with a timer on it. Don't use it. My time is my own.


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