Hugs and prayers. Thank goodness for sewing.

Sewing can be the greatest therapy in the world as far as I am concerned. I have a small building away from the main house, and I use it for sewing. I run to it everytime I get stressed or worried. I can lose myself in my sewing, just fighting with the sewing machine can be great at times, it puts your mind on something else. I have an ailing husband and a 94 year old Dad that I care for, and I don't know what I would do if I couldn't sew. I hope your Dad gets well soon. Deanie

I can SO relate to what you are saying. Right now my Mom (who lives with me - she's 77) is going through chemotherapy for a breast cancer recurrence. She is having a really hard time with it. She also wants me to be with her all the time when I'm home and not working. So, I just bring one of my sewing machines down to the living room and stitch away (on a tray table, no less!), while we chat or watch TV. It truly is keeping my sanity intact. Plus I've completed two quilt tops in the past week, which is like mass-production compared to my usual super-slow output of projects.

I hear ya! I can't venture too far from home. My husband is plagued with several terminal illnesses. He's a young man, but he's been sick with one thing or the other since he was 14.The majority of them are rare disorders. Between the depression, the multiple Dr appointments, and the aches, pains, and side effects. Well, I need an outlet. I never new I was "sew" creative.

In 2005 when my mother's health was failing from a brain tumor, I had signed up for a BOM at my LQS. Sewing those blocks when she was doing poorly helped keep my sanity. In 2007 when my company was going through a REALLY BAD transisiton, the Sales manager, also good friend, was "let go". In the situation we were in, we found out 6 months later that the boss had stage 4 cancer, but it was so chaotic and his personality changed and he was becoming a tyrant. The day he fired her I went to my LQS and just walked around looking and calming my self down. She had done everything he asked, and as soon as she did, he was telling her NO, I want it done this way."
So yes, at my machine or not, I do use it as therapy!
Happy Quilting, Susan

God Bless you and your Dad.

I hope everything works out well for you. And yes, the sewing machine is a great therapist - a great listener, and never talks back!!

Jana I have 4 friends and we all have sewing theropy ..all of us have our own sets of cercumstances but we all sew to cope and love it ......

YES!!! Doing any craft or spending time lovin' on my critters calms me and makes me feel better. Lot less expensive than talking to a shrink.

((((HUGS))))