quilting environment discussion

I love to have the radio on. i listen to it all the time anyway. The TV is too distracting. i also like human company when tying or quilting. Tis better shared, doncha think? amy in CNY

I usually have the television on.

I will give the traditional answer to a question like that, Karen: it all depends ... ... If I am drawing or working something out, I like complete silence and solitude; If I am doing easy piecing, I listen to the radio - talk channel; If I am quilting, I am going to try music when I next do some. If it is fiddly (a miniature, say), I like silence. .

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Good question! Most of the time, I like complete silence when I am working on a quilt. On rare occasions, even in summer, I will play Christmas CDs.

Rita L.

Karen, Queen of Squishies wrote:

I like to have the radio on, or I may put a "book on tape" on. Failing that, a CD is nice too....

I was just putting some fabric away and Poppy came to help. I think she believes that she can smell and lovingly mark each piece of fabric I own. I kindly told her she won't live long enough.

-- Jo in Scotland

I usually listen to a classical music radio station, occasionally to a CD, unless my husband has his radio or the TV turned on too loud in another room.

Julia in MN

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I will often start off the day with CNN or MSNBC on T.V, for the news cycle. When It starts to repeat, I switch over to my I-Pod which is loaded with my own favorite music. I play it through a small speaker system so I can listen to it without headphones. After lunch I turn back on the T.V, and see if the world has exploded. If anything dramatic is happening, I stay tuned. If not, then it is back to the I- Pod, one of the all time great inventions.

John

I usually tune background noise out, but I *have* to have something on in the background - too much quiet makes me think something's wrong (guess it comes from havin' kids - when it's quiet, something's usually broken or about to be broken!!) and I can't relax.

So I'll have a quilting show on the VCR (I taped every episode of "Simply Quilts," "Sew Much More" and "Sew Perfect" - add to that Margaret Islander's series, David Coffin ... you get the picture ... and now QNNtv, so I always have a quilty or sew-y show to listen to!!) and I'll tune in and tune out as I sew! Also, I have podcasts that I'll listen to. Oooh! And Lewis Black and Jeff Dunham (comedians) are always fun to listen to, too!! :)

Great topic, Karen!!! :)

When I was a kid, I was allowed to use the sewing machine when my mom left for the day. That way she didn't see me making a mess and I could have it cleaned up by the time she got back. She left the house when my dad put football on TV. The rah-rahing keeps me going. I sew more often during the NFL season. College football doesn't do the same for me.

3) CD with instrumental music. Nothing I can sing along to. Playing air guitar and using the rotary cutter are just not compatible!.

Something interesting but not so interesting I get sucked out of what I'm doing.

This means generally tv or the NASCAR channel on Sirius....

Dead silence makes the work seem to drag on forever.....having something else to occupy my brain makes the time seem to fly. I don't seem to have any trouble tuning out what I'm listening to if I need to really concentrate my whole brain for a bit.

--pig

I have a tv in my studio and always have it on. I am a tv listener, don't have to watch. Most of it is dialogue anyone.

I love listening to music during the day when I am sewing but at night I am quite happy to have the chatter of the TV in the background.

For cutting and piecing, I listen to NPR podcasts (usually Most E-Mailed Sotries)

While pinning, my tradition is to watch the DVD of Sense and Sensibility.

Karen in WI

Karen, Queen of Squishies wrote:

Either TV in background or I put on my Ipod and rock. I really like to hear the machine stitching merrily along.

Denny in Fort Wayne

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Karen, Queen of Squishies wrote:

I must admit... I almost always have the television on. I quit soaps cold turkey in 1990 -- so I avoid those like the plague. You'll either find me watching the Game Show Network (I love Password, Jeopardy and Millionaire) or running programs I've que'd via TIVO. I'm a sucker for "Smarter than a

I LOVE TIVO!!!! No commercials (well, they are there -- but you speed right through them!). The record all the Fons & Porters for me (I always forget when they are on!) Even Eleanor Burns gets TIVO'd.

I reserve most handwork (like bindings... or hand blanket stitch on my appliqué blocks) for evenings in the Family Room with DH. He's usually working on email on his lap top... watching the telly. That way I can be with him instead of secreted away upstairs in my sewing room.

Kate in MI

I've never seen Sense and Sensability... what's it about? I'm a movie hound -- can't believe I've not seen that one. Then again -- I've never seen The English Patient either!

Most of the time I have the TV on - sometimes I'm watching taped quilting programs, other times it's on just for background noise. That's the bottom line though: I have to have noise!

When I quilt, I don't have the TV or radio on~usually just thinking my own thoughts.

Best regards, Michelle in NV

I always have the tv on. Lately, I pick some non-offensive noise that I don't have to watch closely like a cooking show on the food channel or a decorating show. I used to watch either Anne of Green Gables or Horatio Hornblower. I swear I ran them 50 times each before I really saw all of each series :-)

For hand work I move upstairs onto the comfy couch and put on something a little more interesting to me.

marcella