My mom and stepdad have been here the last few days. While it’s lovely to have extra people entertaining the kids, I am more exhausted than ever. Mostly because, instead of naptime being my quiet time, it has been Project Time with Mom. On the plus side, my sunroom, dining room, and kitchen are cleaner than they have been in months and we took a carload of stuff to the Salvation Army.
That means evening has been my only sewing time, and man does it get late fast! The last two nights have been spent quilting the stacked coins quilt for my brother. While it’s kind of big and wide and the stitches aren’t terribly even, my stippling is getting a bit better and I’m certainly gaining confidence.
My standard “entertainment,” while quilting for an hour or so at a time, has become my iPhone. You see, my sewing space is also our guest room, which also shares a wall with my sleeping toddlers. No room for a TV, and no desire to make any additional noise (three cheers for white noise in the kids’ room, though). So I bring up my phone and my earbuds and listen to downloaded podcasts from NPR. This quilt took one episode of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me and one episode of Car Talk.
Quilters out there, how do you pass the time when you’re quilting? Do you just let your mind wander to the rhythm of the sewing needle? Do you blast death metal as loud as you can and revel in the odd juxtaposition? Does it depend on the kind of quilting you’re doing?
Anyways, I hope to have the stacked coins quilt completed over the weekend and ready to ship to a certain two-week-old…
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I usually listen to music. The genre of music depends heavily upon my mood and who the recipient of the quilt is. I listen to anything from the soundtrack to Tank Girl, to the Dead, to Christian pop, to folk or classical,etc, etc. I also listen to radio shows…not such the technoweenie here, so I don’t have anything to listen to podcasts on, but I probably would if I could
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I listen to whatever is on my Napster lists… either country, death metal, anything in between. I also let my Sims (sims 2) play in the background sometimes…
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I recently put my iHome iPod thingamagig in my sewing room so I can listen to either the radio or songs from my iPod while I sew. I don’t like it loud because I love to listen to my sewing machine, too. Loud music also gets on my nerves when I’m sewing because sewing is a calming activity for me; so, loud music disturbs my peace. I never listen to death metal, but I find it interesting that someone would listen to “death” metal while “creating” since those two things are exact opposites.
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