When you won't let children color in your coloring books because you use them as applique patterns.
You step lightly in the sewing room because those pesty pins fall to the floor. You can feel the pin before it does damage and can quickly pull it out.
You're at work and someone asks why you have those long pins in your shirt, well because I was up this morning sewing.
People don't bother to ask how you spent your weekend, because everyone already knows you spent it quilting.