Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. last night, I hunkered down with a rubber finger (Staples) on my thumb, put in the BBC DVD of Bleak House (10 hours long) and finished my hand binding about the time I finished Bleak House (yawn). I do find hand work relaxing - I prefer hand quilting to machine quilting but I think it was just doing too much at a time that it got me down. I still have 2 sandwiches to quilt and one quilt to bind for Chanukah. I hope to hand quilt on the 12 hour flight. Think I can get through security with the needle/