I know for me, I do my best work in the mornings...after my coffee and reading the Quilting Board. Night time sewing just gets me in trouble most of the time...I want to hurry and get things done and find myself making too many mistakes.

I'm afraid I wouldn't get anything else done if I started my day sewing. I gotta get my work done first.

I am retired now, and don't sleep usually past 3 am, so do any ironing or pressing and other quiet things, have something to eat check out this board, then off to my sewing/quilting room, after my husband gets up, I have my shower and return with a fresh coffee and sew until we need to go and do something.....my husband does a lot of housework, and some of the cooking, so I have lots of free time to do what I want. My friends would like to rent him, however I suggest they need to train their own.....LOL

I haven't tried this yet since I'm still working on setting up a comfortable space to sew. Now I'm wondering if I want to start scheduling some of my time more. I'm entering my third year of retirement and I don't seem to be doing some of the things I'd like to be doing. Maybe I should plan out my week or two or three days at a time. I like to be flexible but it's feeling too loosey goosey at the moment. Any suggestions? While I was working, the job and family came first, of course. It's not always easy to try to put my needs first. No one is imposing that on me, it's coming from me, for some reason.

I am an early morning person but I take a long walk outside and then home to fix lunches for 3 granddaughters. Once they are off to school I like to straighten up the house and clean the kitchen then I sit down to sew a little and that makes me feel so good and in a happy mood. When the girls and their Mom get their own place to live I think I will sew early in the morning and that makes me happy for the rest of the day.

That sounds like a great routine for you. How nice that you're able to help out your daughter and grandchildren as well.

Lots2do, when my sister retired she was bonkers for awhile. She worked her whole life, only had one son, and is divorced and has no hobbies. Slowly she is getting into a different routine but it was hard for awhile. I wish I could get her interested in some of my hobbies but she's not interested! Oh well, I tried :)

Same here !!

I absolutely love early morning hours. I am usually up at 5, have a cup of coffee and head to the basement to piece or quilt for a couple hours before hubby gets up. Then its breakfast, a few household chores, outside chores, then back to quilting for customers until about 11 when I need to pick up grandson from pre school, fix lunch, clean up kitchen, an hours rest, back to quilting until school bus drops off granddaughter, homework with grandkids, fix supper, then relax with grandkids until they are picked up about 7

Yes, bonkers is a good description at times. I have the hobbies, I just don't always give myself permission to do them when I should. Well, gotta work on that.