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Do you multitask when quilting?

Old 09-14-2011, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by NJ Quilter
I usually end up doing the laundry while sewing. Everything on the same level so I get more laundry done that way!
Ditto -- everything is downstairs so I can do the laundry and sew at the same time.
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Old 09-14-2011, 06:52 PM
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Sigh, I used to multi-task, but with age comes tunnel vision. If I try to multi-task I get side tracked and never accomplish anything. One thing at a time...one foot in front of the other...yep, that's the way I do things any more. :roll:
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Old 09-14-2011, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Greenheron
Multi-tasking is a way of life not just when quilting.
How true!
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Old 09-14-2011, 06:57 PM
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That is when I do my best work! I multi-task at work and at home! It kinda drives the non multi-taskers nuts though, trying to keep up with what I am doing next!
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Old 09-14-2011, 07:27 PM
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Is there any other way?
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Old 09-14-2011, 08:14 PM
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Everything that way! Drives DH crazy. He says slow down!!!
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Old 09-14-2011, 08:22 PM
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I've been quilting while waiting for pots to cook down for canning and while the water bath canner is doing it's thing. :wink:
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Old 09-14-2011, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Jennie and Me
Sigh, I used to multi-task, but with age comes tunnel vision. If I try to multi-task I get side tracked and never accomplish anything. One thing at a time...one foot in front of the other...yep, that's the way I do things any more. :roll:
same here or I'd be unsewing so much more than I'd be sewing.
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Old 09-14-2011, 10:12 PM
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You bet. I was born to multi task else nothing would happen.
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Old 09-14-2011, 10:27 PM
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I have read a study that says women's brains are just more "plastic", meaning flexible, and just better able to multi-task. Actually, you aren't multi-tasking at all. You are just able to rapidly shift your focus from one thing, back to another, and on to another at a rapid pace. You can only focus on one thing at a time. It's the speed in which you can shift that focus, and still retain the thread of what you're doing in each area, that allows you to "multi-task". (I've actually researched this.) And not meaning to sound sexist, but women are much better at it than men are, and in my opinion, that's a learned behavior born out of necessity. Anyway, I wouldn't get anything done if I didn't multi-task! At least, not enough to suit me!
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