Do you quilt on Sunday?
#302
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Originally Posted by MsEithne
Originally Posted by Susie Quilter
Please let me know if everyone quilts on Sunday, or is that a day that you you take off from quilting. The reason that I ask is because my Mother-in-law always told me that I shouldn't sew or quilt on Sunday.
If that is so, then isn't this a question for your theological authority? Because, really, what I do as a Buddhist may not be appropriate at all for someone of an Abrahamic faith.
P.S. I sew if I want to. (I'm not Jewish but DH and DD spent a summer doing archaeological work in Israel and came back with some interesting stories.) But sewing isn't my job, either. Taking a day off from work once a week is a wonderful idea!
#305
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Originally Posted by justflyingin
Originally Posted by MsEithne
Originally Posted by Susie Quilter
Please let me know if everyone quilts on Sunday, or is that a day that you you take off from quilting. The reason that I ask is because my Mother-in-law always told me that I shouldn't sew or quilt on Sunday.
If that is so, then isn't this a question for your theological authority? Because, really, what I do as a Buddhist may not be appropriate at all for someone of an Abrahamic faith.
P.S. I sew if I want to. (I'm not Jewish but DH and DD spent a summer doing archaeological work in Israel and came back with some interesting stories.) But sewing isn't my job, either. Taking a day off from work once a week is a wonderful idea!
#306
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Originally Posted by justflyingin
Originally Posted by MsEithne
Originally Posted by Susie Quilter
Please let me know if everyone quilts on Sunday, or is that a day that you you take off from quilting. The reason that I ask is because my Mother-in-law always told me that I shouldn't sew or quilt on Sunday.
If that is so, then isn't this a question for your theological authority? Because, really, what I do as a Buddhist may not be appropriate at all for someone of an Abrahamic faith.
This is why I think that such a question needs to be posed to the specific individual's theological authority.
#307
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Originally Posted by BellaBoo
Sewing use to be chore so if the women could use religion to get out of doing it for a day then good for them.
#308
My grandma said if I sewed on Sunday I would pick it out with my nose on Monday. I usually don't, as I have many other things to do on Sunday.
So yesterday was a particularly quiet day, with few of the usual things that fill most Sundays: no children or ggc, so no big dinner, no SS class to prepare for, raining outside.... I have a row to finish for a round robin, so I thought I would finish up, just assembling the 5 blocks, easy peasy, right? Ha! Discovered one of the fussy cut disappearing nine patch blocks had been assembled with one block upside down, and no more fabric available! Then I sewed two blocks on the wrong ends of the row. Ripping those off, I ripped too far, and lost the stitching on one of the tiny tiny blocks on the dnp. Then squaring up the row, I found it was so wonky that I had to lose too much of the focus scenic panel! This morning I was able to fix it all up.
So I will repent and stop sewing on Sunday
So yesterday was a particularly quiet day, with few of the usual things that fill most Sundays: no children or ggc, so no big dinner, no SS class to prepare for, raining outside.... I have a row to finish for a round robin, so I thought I would finish up, just assembling the 5 blocks, easy peasy, right? Ha! Discovered one of the fussy cut disappearing nine patch blocks had been assembled with one block upside down, and no more fabric available! Then I sewed two blocks on the wrong ends of the row. Ripping those off, I ripped too far, and lost the stitching on one of the tiny tiny blocks on the dnp. Then squaring up the row, I found it was so wonky that I had to lose too much of the focus scenic panel! This morning I was able to fix it all up.
So I will repent and stop sewing on Sunday
#309
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My mom was very sweet but when I was little she did not want me to watch TV or go the movies on Sunday. I know that was from her upbringing in the south. Even so, she did not live to see me take up quilting but I think she would have been proud of my sewing no matter what day it was.
#310
Originally Posted by erstan947
My Grandma said, "every stitch you sew on Sunday you will take out with your nose in heaven". At least I'll have something to do when I get to heaven:)
I wasn't "allowed" to put on play clothes on Sunday either, had to wear church clothes all day.....NOR did we sew or even cut out anything on Sunday.....
HOWEVER, this is the best part ! My foster father always kept on his long sleeve white shirt and tie all day.....and Sunday was the day he would check the oil in the car....it was an old car and every time he would put his arm wherever around the motor to check the oil he would get oil on the sleeve of his shirt...so what did he do, he cut the end of the horn off because that is what was getting him dirty ! So, then the horn had more of an ugga sound rather than a horn sound !
This is the same man and same car that he changed the oil in and was too cheap to buy a filter....put a roll of toilet paper in where the filter should of been.....car ran hot one day and foster mother took it into a garage and learned what had happened......don't think he did that again !
Looking back, those weren't "bad" times, however, not to make an excuse, I find sewing and other crafts extremely relaxing and don't view it as work.
Today I sew on Sunday, even though I'm retired and can sew any day, but an afternoon spent at my sewing machine or cutting table is more relaxing and rewarding !
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