Hi Nancy.I can get lost and never leave my sewing room so I know what a stress releaver it is. I am not a perfectionest so I make the peices fit and then worry about squaring them later.
As a bakery mgt you must work nites, I had a job in a family backery when I was a kid and I rember the nites they spent in the kitchen, worse than a resterant.
What kinds of quilts do you like to make? and do you quilt by hand? I use a mechine all the time. I think that if those pioneer woman had had a machine no hand quilt would have ever been made. Time was of the essence for them too. but then you do not need good lite to do hand work in seems, I worked in a nursing home and a bilnd woman made quuilts for her whole family never saw a thing. they were scrappy, her daughter cut them and then she sewed them together. I was so impressed.
look forward to hearing from you soon. Daphne Quiltnurse