During my "regular schedule" otherwise know as during the school year, my weekdays are FILLED with school stuff. It is sad. Saturday is house day - cleaning, groceries, laundry, etc. -- but Sunday, SUNDAY is *MY* day -- the boyfriend plays paintball and I do whatever I want - which generally means playing in my sewing room.
Summer is much more laid back, I will have a few weeks of training where nothing is done outside of the training stuff, and then a couple of "sundays" in a row, and then usually more training.
It works for me because the BF wants to play paintball without me throwing a fit like his ex - I want to sew without him throwing a fit (so he gave me a room to "destroy" - with my stuff).
You just have to schedule it in.