Originally Posted by piepatch
More beautifully crafted pieces, and cherry wood at that! It is refreshing to see someone use their talents over a lifetime, and to this extent. I know a few people who are very talented, who used their talent for a while and then let it die. I have observed that if you have been gifted with a talent of any kind, and don't use it for an extended period of time, you may have an overall feeling of discontent, but put it back to work, and there will be a feeling of fulfillment. I think if God gives us a gift, he intends for us to use it. Thanks for sharing your gift!
I tend to work at one thing to the exclusion of everything else. If I am doing woodworking, I don't go upstairs in the afternoon or evening, and work on quilting. That is why I never wanted to go into the business of producing large numbers of any one item. I devote so much energy into the one thing I would have a mental breakdown if I had to do 200 of them in a production
run. What I do, with furniture, is best done one piece at a time. The multiple production approach makes use of different construction methods than I want to use. Not that there is anything wrong with those methods, but they are something that I don't enjoy doing. I was going to make 4 identical quilts for my brothers and sisters and send them out to California for a present, but I could not face the thought of just turning out 4 copies of the same thing. I have done that sort of thing on one quilt, the School House Quilt, but it was not sequential, they were interspersed with other quilting projects. that I could handle. It is just my individual approach that works for me.
John