Equivalent analogy "My eyes are bigger than my stomach"
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I have a similar problem, as I'm trying to meet a deadline to finish a quilt for our July 4th family reunion, and need to finish the top so that I can send it to my niece, who has a long arm quilting machine. However, I just lost a month in time because I was in the hospital for 2 weeks and then spent another 2 weeks in rehab. That pneumonia really knocked me for loop and it's a struggle every day as I don't have the energy, but working on it. You would not want to see my "Roundtoit" List, as it keeps growing.
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I have that problem every day!! I get the DGD's (who live with me) on the bus and take a long walk, come home and straighten up the house and clean the kitchen. By that time I do laundry and get dinner prepped. Now it is like 3 pm and I think I can get some sewing done but----oh no--the girls are getting home in 30 min.! I do squeeze in a few sewing hrs when they are not here but I agree with you that there is not enough hours in the day for our sewing/crafting hobby. Bottom line is that my granddaughters are in a safe place thank goodness and I can sew when time allows.
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Sometimes I feel like "if you give a mouse a cookie" or "a moose a muffin"...whichever book you shared with your children.
I'll start on something in my sewing room, then switch to something else...and then forget what I initially wanted to accomplish.
I'll start on something in my sewing room, then switch to something else...and then forget what I initially wanted to accomplish.
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Seems like we all have the same problem, I need to add to that, Sometimes I have the time but am not in the mood and know better to work on a project I am not in the mood to do as it only will have to be re done.
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I had my own storefront shop for 29 years and taught sewing and quilting at night at a local big chain fabric store. I could not wait until the day when I sold my shop, retired from teaching and had a dedicated room for sewing and crafting. Well, the time came and I think the phrase is 'Retirement is going to kill me!!". I am busier now then I was then! Every day I get up and start in working on an assortment of projects. I still teach, I work 3 part time days at a fabric shop and I volunteer at a seniors shoppe. None of these were planned, they all sort of just happened. Add this to the selling I do online and various commission jobs (mostly for gnome homes and witches/fairy custom houses) and there truly are not enough hours in a day. I thank God I am able to still do these things, but, I am now looking forward to my next attempt at retirement......But. I think this is the nature of creative people. We have so many things in our heads that we want to make.
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