I work a lot of hours and also have a husband and 2 kids (or is that really 3 kids? :-) so what I do is get up at 4:45, make coffee, feed dogs, change and feed bunny, drink coffee and then make my way down to my sewing room for about a half hour of quilting. I do the big stuff on weekends and the small stuff (like sewing long strips to cut into blocks, cutting and ironing binding, maybe even some applique) in the mornings. Once the quilt is together, I also reserve mornings for hand binding, hand quilting (I do the big stuff on the machine and embellish the blocks by hand). I find that I can keep up with my housework and the half hours of work really add up! I just finished a Greek Cross quilt for my mother in law and it only took me a week of mornings to do the hand quilting. Not bad.....