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Originally Posted by mrsmayf2007
Do you listen to music while you sew? Any certain types you enjoy listening to while you sew that you might not typically listen to? Share!
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I listen to Books-on-Tape from the local library.. I love a good story.. if I have to concentrate too much I turn off the story for a bit.. but then I'm right back to the plot to see what's happening next!!
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I listen to audio books from the library.
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Absolutely. Music is a big part of my life. I have satellite TV with separate speakers, a jam box, and an XM radio in my sewing room. I listen to various types of music all the way from classical to Southern Gospel to jazz to fifties. Whatever mood I'm in, I have music for my mood. Love it; can't live without it.
Linda in Central Texas where it is hot, hot, hot!! |
Not music, I am into Talk Radio.
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Wow Marta, This site is just way too cool.. I love it.. LOVE it.. Thank you. In fact I have some light jazz playing in the background right now.. ahh.. so nice!
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When I really need to get motivated and moving - I put on Michael Jackson. If that doesn't get me going - nothing will.
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Yes I like music when I sew. The type varies from opera, new age and classical, to folk, pop, current hits. I can't watch TV and quilt at the same time, I make too many mistakes or miss too much of the TV show to be able to understand what it going on. I canno listen to audio books either, for the same reason. I gues I can only concentrate on one thing at a time!
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I listen to a book on tape from the library. I love mysteries.
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I must have music on when I sew or quilt at my machine. I have my ipod hooked into my Bose sounddock. It is loaded with all kinds of music. I like upbeat music or songs that I know and can sing along. I have country, oldies, some Jazz, celtic, blues, bluegrass, new age (love Yanni) even Metallica. Today I sang along with the Beach Boys! :lol:
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When I'm longarming (mid-arming, I guess to be exactly correct!) I light off my Enya album and go to town!
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I listen to a baseball game...
No game on, I listen to MLB Network Too many reruns on MLB... Turner Classic Movies :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: |
Listening to music for me also relaxes me. I like to listen to r&b alot but when I am sewing I listen to old school r&b or jazz.
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I have heard that when you quilt Free-hand, music helps you stay steady and smooth. It depends on my mood; I listen to the Radio, T.V., iTunes and sometimes....quiet.
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My sewing room that looks like it will be done within a year is also where I keep my records form my high school years, the 70's. You know, records, those vinal things with pretty artwork on cardboard sleeves.
There's a record/cd/ player/radio in there and to be honest sometimes I like to sew listening to John Denver or Bob Seger. |
Classical or opera. Very relaxing and calming.
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I've also beein lsitening to audio books--from audible.com and also from our library system, which now has audio books for download, so I can combine two of my favorite things, sewing and 'reading'. :)
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When I get the chance to be home alone...I load up the CD disc changer...turn up the volume...and enjoy my favorite group...THE MONKEES, of course!!! Sometimes I even put in one of the live DVD's and run that thru the stereo.
If I'm not home alone, guess what? I tell them IF they don't like the music...there's the door! |
I turn up Pandora on my computer and do a random mix of all of my favorite channels that I have set up. My musical taste is very eclectic, anything from Classical to Broadway tunes, Jazz, Classic Rock, Motown, R&B, Folk, Blue Grass, Country, Pop...I love it all!
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I just finished listening to Prayers For Sale. It's a book on tape, also. It's really the story of quilters but I didn't know it until after I started listening to it. I really enjoyed it.
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SOMETIMES TV AND SOMETIMES MUSIC, MOST OF THE TIME IT'S COUNTRY OR GOSPEL, BUT I LIKE SOME OF ALL KINDS MUSIC ( NOT RAP) & ANYTHING BY JOE NICHOLS
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Oh! I need to a summer read! who's the author?
Originally Posted by marymild
I just finished listening to Prayers For Sale. It's a book on tape, also. It's really the story of quilters but I didn't know it until after I started listening to it. I really enjoyed it.
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Always! Usually Yanni, Josh Groban, Kenny G.
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it depends on the mood i am in i either listen to the music, watch TV or just enjoy the peace and quiet depends on how much concentration i need at the moment also
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I am a children's theater director, and I love to sew! So I crank up "Wicked", "Phantom of the Opera", "Annie", "Suessical", "Little Women", "Sound of Music", "Wizard of Oz", "Chicago", "A Chorus Line"...whatever show I see I usually get the soundtrack.
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Rock n roll. From the beatles to ac/dc and a splash of johnny cash.
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I sometimes work in silence. It clears my head. But then, sometimes I will turn the TV to a talk show on EWTN and just listen.
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Originally Posted by marymild
I just finished listening to Prayers For Sale. It's a book on tape, also. It's really the story of quilters but I didn't know it until after I started listening to it. I really enjoyed it.
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Sandra Dallas. Here's a review: Hennie Comfort knows she's getting old--she's 86--but she doesn't want to leave her mountain home of Middle Swan, Colorado, to go live with her daughter in Iowa. Still, there comes a time when Hennie figures she must face the facts and give in to her daughter's pleadings, so she sets the end of the year 1936 as the time when she'll begrudgingly move. But there's lots to be done in the months left, including befriending the new young neighbor, Nit Spindle, and working through some things Hennie's managed to set aside for many years. Thus kicks off Sandra Dallas's new novel, Prayers For Sale; sit back and let the story wash over you as the pages turn themselves.
Hennie's a real character, and a mainstay of the town since she came out seventy years before to marry Jake Comfort, sight unseen. Hennie's lifelong passion has been quilting, and just as she stitches quilts throughout the book, her own story unravels for Nit as she shares it with the lonely young woman. Hennie's figured out quite a bit about people in her long life, but she's still got a few things left to tend to before she leaves her home, and the friendship she develops with the much younger woman is the basis for the flashbacks into Hennie's life. The bond created between the two women is strong; centered around children both have lost, they find they can share each other's burdens over a quilting frame. Hennie doesn't actually offer prayers for sale, however; her prayers are frequent and fervent and she intervenes when necessary. This is such a delightful tale with such strong, well-written characters that I hated to see it end. I could easily picture Hennie's dry sense of humor and her good will in trying to bring Nit into the town's social circle. In my mind's eye, I could see Hennie telling the stories as she worked over her "piecings", and I felt the same impact from them that Nit was experiencing. The ending is a bit of a surprise--not unwelcome, but surprising nonetheless. I was left smiling, knowing I will hold these dear people with me for a very long time. Highly recommended. |
I listen to Donny Osmond and the Osmonds. I love their LP The Plan. I can have the music really loud so no one else can hear me singing. I find that the music makes me happy and I am more productive.
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Originally Posted by marymild
Sandra Dallas. Here's a review: Hennie Comfort knows she's getting old--she's 86--but she doesn't want to leave her mountain home of Middle Swan, Colorado, to go live with her daughter in Iowa. Still, there comes a time when Hennie figures she must face the facts and give in to her daughter's pleadings, so she sets the end of the year 1936 as the time when she'll begrudgingly move. But there's lots to be done in the months left, including befriending the new young neighbor, Nit Spindle, and working through some things Hennie's managed to set aside for many years. Thus kicks off Sandra Dallas's new novel, Prayers For Sale; sit back and let the story wash over you as the pages turn themselves.
Hennie's a real character, and a mainstay of the town since she came out seventy years before to marry Jake Comfort, sight unseen. Hennie's lifelong passion has been quilting, and just as she stitches quilts throughout the book, her own story unravels for Nit as she shares it with the lonely young woman. Hennie's figured out quite a bit about people in her long life, but she's still got a few things left to tend to before she leaves her home, and the friendship she develops with the much younger woman is the basis for the flashbacks into Hennie's life. The bond created between the two women is strong; centered around children both have lost, they find they can share each other's burdens over a quilting frame. Hennie doesn't actually offer prayers for sale, however; her prayers are frequent and fervent and she intervenes when necessary. This is such a delightful tale with such strong, well-written characters that I hated to see it end. I could easily picture Hennie's dry sense of humor and her good will in trying to bring Nit into the town's social circle. In my mind's eye, I could see Hennie telling the stories as she worked over her "piecings", and I felt the same impact from them that Nit was experiencing. The ending is a bit of a surprise--not unwelcome, but surprising nonetheless. I was left smiling, knowing I will hold these dear people with me for a very long time. Highly recommended. "These Is My Words", "Sarah's Quilt", and "The Star Garden". Wonderful books, same family, going back to the 1800's. Covered wagon and all that. Enjoy. Edie |
YES! I listen to Bluegrass Gospel. Love it! I just zip along!
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I listen to Contemporary Christian on Comcast or KLOVE on the radio. If I watch TV I usually end up using my redesign tool AKA Seam Ripper.
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Yes, can't quilt (or anythng else) without it. Usually classic rock or music from the 60's. It's the best!!!
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I usually borrow audio books from my local library and listen to them while I'm sewing. Last Saturday I'd found an old tape of late 60's music hits and thought it would make a change to listen to that, WRONG, I was a teenager at that time and the memories came rushing back as I was sewing. One moment my head was nodding in time to the beat, then my shoulders and upper body, then the next thing was I stopped sewing altogether and stood up to start dancing around my sewing room. I felt quite breathless by the the time I finished but it was one good party I had. Luckily, I was home alone at the time, so just remember, this is our secret, ok.
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I have music all day at work, so like the quite time in sewing room
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Thanks Marymild.. I will check that out from my local library tomorrow when I go in.. I needed a new book .. thanks for the review..
Perhaps the readers should start a thread about what's a good summer read? Marymild, you sound like a good one to start it off!! |
I play CDs most of the time while I'm sewing, Praise, Gospel and Country and sometimes a little Rod Stewart or The Little River Band.
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Not always music , and the types vary . But I do need some kind of background noise , so if its not music I have a TV in my sewing room . I don't know why but I find the silience distracting!
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Originally Posted by Judie
Thanks Marymild.. I will check that out from my local library tomorrow when I go in.. I needed a new book .. thanks for the review..
Perhaps the readers should start a thread about what's a good summer read? Marymild, you sound like a good one to start it off!! I will go by authors - each book is good. Jennifer Chiaverini Mary Higgins Clark Richard Paul Evans JoAnn Fluke Earlene Fowler Jan Karon Wally Lamb Beverly Lewis Tracie Peterson Jodi Picoult Nicholas Sparks Nancy E. Turner They are in alphabetical order because I keep track of the books I have listened to - by author. I would love to give you my favorite books, but each and every author, I think, is marvelous - Titlewise, I like Marley and Me, The Art of Dancing in the Rain (wonderful book), Icy Sparks, On Agate Hill, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, The Girls, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The Shack. I have a "book" by Wally Lamb that my sister is listening to right now. It is "I Know This Much is True" - 28 discs long!!! If you can get through the extreme profanity, it is a wonderful book, twists, turns, ins and outs, ups and downs, love hate, past, present. You have my thread! Edie |
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