sew, sew, sew!
05-27-2012, 09:44 AM
#44
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Royse City Texas
Posts: 2,870
Just watched my 3 grandchildren while Mom & Dad delivered #4. I am tooooooo old for this job! My body aches and I want to sew sew sew, but I can't do much at all for a day or 2. I had forgotten what it was like to dress, feed and keep happy...a 6, 3 and 1 1/2 year old. I had 4 kids, and I don't know why mine think they need to copy me! Ahhhh.
Enjoy all your sewing!
Enjoy all your sewing!
05-27-2012, 10:17 AM
#45
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Victorian Sweatshop
Posts: 863
Why in the world would anyone expect a quilter to wash dishes, cook, do laundry, mop floors, host parties, or sleep? If they find a cure I'll barricade myself behind the sewing machine and dare anyone to get past the bins of fabric. So there.
05-28-2012, 05:31 PM
#46
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Quilting, crocheting, sewing and crafting in my Sewing Room...Peaceful and wonderful !!
Posts: 5,317
It's 1:00 AM and I have to be at work at 7:00 - sew, sew, sew
I just finished a project, but then I started another - sew, sew, sew
Two hanging over chairs all sandwiched and waiting to be quilted - sew, sew, sew
Even the dog is whining cause I'm not in bed, but I sew, sew, sew
My back is starting to hurt, but I sew, sew, sew
Four-year-old grandboy staying with us for the next two weeks - he's sleeping soundly now, so I sew, sew, sew
Is this a disease? Am I obsessed or possessed?
I just finished a project, but then I started another - sew, sew, sew
Two hanging over chairs all sandwiched and waiting to be quilted - sew, sew, sew
Even the dog is whining cause I'm not in bed, but I sew, sew, sew
My back is starting to hurt, but I sew, sew, sew
Four-year-old grandboy staying with us for the next two weeks - he's sleeping soundly now, so I sew, sew, sew
Is this a disease? Am I obsessed or possessed?
05-28-2012, 05:50 PM
#47
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: northeast NE
Posts: 1,072
The longest I have had to stay up to finish a quilt was two years ago when I was still working; I stayed up three days and two nights. Went to work, sewed all night, went to work,sewed all night and all next day. I was so obsessed with meeting the deadline that I didn't allow myself to fall asleep while sewing OR at work!! I wouldn't suggest anyone making a bad habit of that. It's ridiculous and bad for your health!!
05-28-2012, 06:43 PM
#48
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Texas Gulf Coast
Posts: 1,463
Well, like so many things - it's different than when I was younger. After that long night of sew, sew, sewing - I think I went to bed between 3 and 4:00 AM - the next night I was in bed by 9:00. Used to I could do 3 -4 nights in a row - now two is pushing it!
A dear friend and I are going on a quilt retreat later in June and plan to stay up until 2:00 sewing and then sleep until 10! We'll see if that works. I can see the 2 AM happening, but 8:30 is about the latest I can sleep in these days.
A dear friend and I are going on a quilt retreat later in June and plan to stay up until 2:00 sewing and then sleep until 10! We'll see if that works. I can see the 2 AM happening, but 8:30 is about the latest I can sleep in these days.
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