I am like you, I have the next quilt planned while I am working on one. I work full time as well, but I have "quiltitis" bad. I get to play with my Pfaff machine on weekends but during the week, I hand quilt for a couple hours each night. I always have a quilt on the frame and it is so relaxing after a day at work to come home and just stitch away. I eventually have something beautiful to show for my time. Hand quilting is getting to be a lost art but I enjoy it.

Amazing to me that if they can't get it NOW, they will find an alterations shop that does hemming and mending! The non-sewers appreciate my skills more when they have to actually pay someone to do it. They are usually much less demanding after this..."Pardon me, but would you have a chance to get this or that done for me. I don't need it right away...."

y'all are so funny, I have to agree with the quilt-itis, I typed medical reports for several years it sure sounds like a serious condition and contagious too, I think work has to be put on the back burner until there is a cure for quilt-itis. I have it too, but my job is repairing/restoring quilts of all ages it's my medicine although, it doesn't pay so great but the at home benefits are good.

Yes, I work to support my habit (quilting). I have had "quiltitis" for years. My DH says it has gone from a passion to an obsession! I envy you getting to restore quilts. Quilting is my reward at the end of the day for working.

I love the hand work but it is so time consuming. I pieced a goose in the pond block by machine the other day, what a mess it was, I was quite embarrassed. My machine skills need a whole lot of practice. It can be quite an obsession, especially the magazines and books. I get so confused with which project I want to do and never do any for myself just end up looking at pictures and dreaming. Have a good day