I can relate to your exhaustion, Pam! I used to teach kindergarten, and I know how those little ones can wear you out! It sounds so much like my weekdays. I teach grades 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12. By the time I get home I'm often just too pooped to participate!! :cry: Several days this past week I got home really late because of after-school sporting events and a "Meet-the-Teacher Night." On that day I left home at 6:15 a.m. and didn't get return until 10:15 that night!! Then I had to start it all over again the next day. I felt like I was living at my school!! Sometimes when I get home I just want time to mellow out! :roll: My sweetie, on the other hand, is currently unemployed and has all day to himself. There isn't anyone in his life grabbing for his attention. He sometimes can't relate to how mentally and physically exhausted I am at the end of the day. I keep thinking that the school year will slow down, but I seem to be getting even busier. I never can get to my quilting as often as I would like.

I have just finished pinning a quilt and have it ready to be quilted. Now it's time to order something for me for dinner. My man is babysitting his two grandson's at his son's house so he probably won't be home until about 2:00 in the morning! That should give me a little time to get this quilting started.
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I work full time mon-fri at a local hosp. If I've had a bad day, I will go and putter around my sewing room. I wish I had more time to sew and I usually do most of my sewing on the weekends. I would really like to take some classes and my LQS doesn't have as many Sat. classes. I am self taught at quilting and I think if I had instruction I would sew/quilt more.

When I sew I like to do it all day...7am to 10pm...and get as much done as I can. I have been cutting squares or strips on the nights my husband watches football...it gives me something to do yet we are both in the livingroom. Quality time...

Some days I'm sewing, planning, etc for 8-10 hours. Others, it's 5-6. A few days here and there I am forced to go 'shopping' with DH to places like Harbor Freight, Lowes, Walmart, Gander Mountain, maybe the grocery store! But I might get to squeeze in a lqs and/or JoAnns, so I don't mind those trips too much!

It varies-if my husband is out of town and I'm in the mood, I'll sew from morning till late in the night. Other days, I just can't get going and may not sew at all. Like most others, it varies, but being retired and child-free makes it much easier to carve out time.

I always try to get in an hour or two on my days off. If it's the weekend I can get in more time.

Since I retired June 2nd, most days I sew 6-8 hours a day,7 days a week and doing laundry and other home things. I do a bit of housework before I start each day. My aim when I retired was to make as many quilts as I could and try to use up some of my fabrics, Need also to stop buying more.

If I don't work on my quilts every day, I get very cranky.
It can be handwork, cutting, or piecing. The swaps on here keep me productive and give me an opportunity to try new things. The weekends get hectic, so I try to keep Monday for me!

I work 40 hours a week but since I'm a night owl, I manage to work in at least an hour of quilting a night....sometimes much more....sometimes much less. I belong to a quilt ministry and we sew 2 times a month on Sunday for 3 hours at a shot...it's like heaven to me to have that much devoted sewing and talking time.

I leave whatever I'm working on, out ready to go in my sewing room. So I can run in sew for as little as 30 minutes on days that I work or all day on off days. It just depends on what else is going on. If somebody calls and says lets go, I'm going; otherwise I'm sewing.