What Do You Quilt To?
#71
My sewing area is right outside of my laundry room in the far reaches of my basement. I love the sounds of the swishing of the washing machine and dryer. It relaxes me and drowns out the sounds of what is going on upstairs. I have a full house right now so I prefer either those sounds or beautiful silence.
#73
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Location: kansas
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While piecing I'm upstairs and either have rock on the radio--or can hear my husband watching tv downstairs (loudly)!
While on the long arm, I usually load up the CD player with rock, blues and 80's-90's country but sometimes have re-runs on the tv that I've seen a gillion times (Law and Order, Bones, Criminal Minds, Ncis)--but usually music cause it loosens me up and provides rythym to quilt by.
While on the long arm, I usually load up the CD player with rock, blues and 80's-90's country but sometimes have re-runs on the tv that I've seen a gillion times (Law and Order, Bones, Criminal Minds, Ncis)--but usually music cause it loosens me up and provides rythym to quilt by.
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#76
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Texas
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I prefer it quiet when I sew, but my sewing area is in the den and if my hubby comes in to work on that computer (he has 3 set up), then I can forget the quiet. He is learning (took 49 years) that I do like it quiet, so he does try to keep it down. Sometimes I like soft background music. I do use the time to call my BFF and talk using the headset to the cordless phone. Like others have said, it's all according to my mood.
Happy sewing!
Happy sewing!
#77
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: near Nashville, Tenn.
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I usually put on a podcast - Car Talk or Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, or StarTalk. Sometimes I'll stream a French-language radio broadcast (in hopes that it will somehow help me regain my long-lost fluency). Sometimes I'll listen to classical music, or whatever's on NPR. If my 8-year-old is sewing with me, I listen to him.
#78
I love to hear a clock tick. Honest. I think it comes from how much I loved going to the Hoquiam Washington library as a little kid.
And I listen to audible books. Right now I'm listening to the Red Wall series.
edited to add: we haven't had a tv for about 10 years now. Never miss it
And I listen to audible books. Right now I'm listening to the Red Wall series.
edited to add: we haven't had a tv for about 10 years now. Never miss it
Last edited by KalamaQuilts; 09-17-2014 at 11:39 AM.
#80
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Pandora most days...whatever I'm in the mood for, and I can't listen to the same genre for more than 4-5 songs.
Or I sew in silence, do some praying, enjoy the sights outside because my machine is in front of a window facing our street. I like to eavesdrop and no one's the wise. They have NO idea how their voices carry. It's a hoot.
Or I sew in silence, do some praying, enjoy the sights outside because my machine is in front of a window facing our street. I like to eavesdrop and no one's the wise. They have NO idea how their voices carry. It's a hoot.
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