Originally Posted by
AprilM
Origamigoldfish... i tell this story to encourage you. Sometimes it just takes a long time and then another long time being a work in progress, but i truly believe that anything worth having is worth the wait (sometimes just for everybody else to finally get on the same page)! You will find your way a little at a time through everybody else’s stuff and your place might just materialize in the process! Kinda like - gee, maybe we should move all of Mom’s sewing garbage into that room now... hey, girl - seize the moment if it comes - occupy first then decorate! LOL!
Sorry... seems my words always get a little too wordy!
First off, thank you for the encouragement!
It is not as bad as it seems, l promise, lol. I tend to stay off the kitchen table unless I am actually quilting something, so that keeps the complaints down. I just get discouraged when my relaxing time is spent setting up and tearing down, and not actually doing the thing that I love.
The strange part is most of the complaints come from a former quilter, the lady who taught me how to quilt in the first place. As long as I keep my machine off the table, she is more than supportive of my hobby. She goes with me to fabric stores, spends hours poring over the quilt magazines I bring home, and even bought me the machine she likes to complain about! I am trying to coax her into trying it again,this new one is much easier to use than the old beast she had when I was a child. We actually still have all of her old pattern books and her small fabric stash in the room already. The interest is still there for sure, and I think having the machine somewhere she can just sit down and play with it at her leisure will help.
I am sooo tempted to steal the new shed this winter and make my own sewing and living space out of it, but I just can't figure out how to get the riding lawnmowers through our tiny doors to the storage room!
