What do you waste time on?
 

I wish I could have back all the hours I have spent looking at batik scraps, turning them over and over to see which is the "right" side. How about you?

Picking out seams. Although seam ripping is. part of sewing, too often I have become careless and sewed something incorrectly so I consider taking it apart to be a waste of time. I once sewed 80" of black on black, thought I had goofed and picked it all out only to discover that I hadn't made a mistake and resewed it exactly as it had been. Time waster!!

On Facebook. Over the last year, I spend hours looking at other’s great quilt projects. Which mean I’m not working on my projects. I need to get back to doing my own projects.

I have wasted a lot of time looking for something quilt related I know I have somewhere. Now if I can't find something I buy another.

I spend a lot of time looking at quilts online. I don't really need any more ideas, but it is fun to dream about future projects!

As far as I'm concerned, the basic day-to-day housework tasks are a waste of time, they keep me from my quilting and other interests.

I'm very happy here after my move, but I'm still playing the lottery and hoping for a housekeeper!

For me, it's trying to decide on a pattern to use. Even though I cleaned out and got rid of about 100 patterns that I'll never use, it still takes me forever to finally pick a pattern that suits both me and the fabric I want to use.

The internet. I’ve recently spent time deleting email accounts I really don’t enjoy or don’t even bother to read. Some of the quilt related emails are not quilts I would ever make or they are only there for a sales pitch.

Some time ago I put my less-used specialty rulers in a couple of plastic grocery bags and stuck them in one side of a magazine rack. We then acquired an inversion table, which led to the magazine rack being taken down to the basement. So recently I asked DH to bring up those plastic bags, because I was anticipating needing two of the rulers. The magazine rack was empty! The only thing that makes sense to me is that I emptied the rack before it was taken downstairs.

I re-purchased the two rulers (one of which I hated using and swore I would never use again, but turns out I need it to trim some leader/ender units, ha). I'm drawing a complete blank on having taken the bags out of the magazine in the first place, and my imagination fails as to where I might have tucked them away.

Most of my time is wasted before I ever get to the sewing room.

The rabbit hole of the computer. Just looked into a project someone here posted about. Watched a video, checked prices at a couple of places. It's not for me, which is a good thing - if I was truly interested, I'd be looking for a good sale!

Then, another post mentioned "Tour de fabric". It sounds quite interesting. I want to find out what it is... Maybe tonight. Just finished lunch so my daytime surfing allotment is about up! Need to scan the rest of the new posts, first priority.