I can relate. I have the garden and yard to tend to during the summer and whatever projects I deem worthy to try my hand at outside. Then when the garden is toast and the canning is finished for the year I turn to the sewing room full time. I do work on piecing quilt tops during the hottest part of the day though. Garden work in the early morning while its still cool and then down to the basement where its fairly cool to work on piecing. Have 5 quilts that need quilted now. As I have a robotic system on my quilt machine, late at night I'll work on the quilting layout using my ProQ Designer program. Print out the layout when its finished and pin it to the flimsy so I know its ready to be quilted. Then on to the next quilt top. In between I try to clean up the sewing room after each top is finished and hung up and get ready for the next creation. I'm usually already looking for the next quilt to try my hand at before I get the one I'm working on finished. I also try to incorporate the scraps leftover to be used in the next quilt. My scrap box is over loaded so try not to add to it if I can help it. As I usually have a couple of quilts on the "TO DO" list, if I find a scrap I think might work I'll throw it on the pile for that particular quilt.