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…
