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Quilting Saves My Sanity - How about you?

You know how you can get so stressed that you could snap at Mother Teresa? Well, it's been like that lately around my house. I retired and then all heck broke loose. It seems like everyone in my family was waiting for me to retire so they could get all their hospital tests, doctor's appts., etc. done. My uncle passed away and his wife had no clue how to handle their affairs. She was 17 years younger and he just took care of her for 35 years. So, I've been there too. Now, I'm really not complaining, it just seems like August has been a little overwhelming. Ooops, almost forgot, can't believe it - my FIL fell Thursday and had to be taken by ambulance to a hospital an hour away. At first they were going to take him by helicopter and you should have seen his 93 year old face when they told him that! They finally sent a special team for him and away we went to follow the ambulance. Seems he had a little bleeder in his brain and they were afraid of what would happen if it got bigger. Thankfully it didn't and we all came home the next day. We were working on 2 hours sleep so we just fell into bed exhausted that night. He has 5 stitches but will be fine. He is a tough old guy - bless his heart.

Now today I finally got to sew a little on a quilt I'm making for my daughter and it was like I could feel the tension just ooze out of my body. I really think I'd be on medication if I didn't have my quilting. There is just something so soothing about holding fabric either new or in the process of being pieced that just lifts my spirits. I just can't imagine not quilting. So, that's what quilting means to me. Do you all have different ways that quilting affects you

- if so would love to hear.

Carolyn from DE

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Carolyn from DE
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(((hugs))) to you. I suppose now wouldn't be a good time to ask you to babysit huh?

I love quilting too - it give me time out where I concentrate on nothing but the fabric, thread and where my needle goes next. God, I wish life were so simple all the time!

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Sharon Harper

Sorry that August has been so rough for you, Carolyn. I'm glad you find solace in quilting. For me, it energizes me. It gives my brain a much-needed work out, and I can practically hear the synapses firing when I'm designing! My job (housewife and mother) is very rewarding, but not very stimulating often. Over-stimulating on many days, but that's not the same thing! Even if I am bone tired, if I start working on a project, I can go until the wee hours (well, until 1:00 am anyway!). It also gives me immense satisfaction to see my family using my quilts. That's like the best of both jobs put together - just like the Georgia Bonesteel's Lap Quilting theme song (that always makes me cry) - "A child sleeps under mother's creation. The Art of the heart and design of the mind."

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taria

I'm slowly working on basting pieces onto paper for my next small quilt (EPP) when I get the opportunity to work on them it feels so relaxing!

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melinda

It's that way for me, too, Wendy. I often work myself into 'corners', if I devise designs, methods etc myself!!! It often takes real ingenuity to get myself out. And I just love getting the little grey cells working. On the more peaceful side, I just love the fact that I can make beautiful things. To create beauty

- is that too fanciful or arrogant a notion? . In article , frood writes

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Patti

Creating something original and beautiful and useful, too, makes me very happy. I felt the same way about cake decorating...art work that is creative and makes people happy. It is one thing in which I am in complete control, and we really need that! Knowing something you completed to comfort and cuddle someone is very rewarding. Nancycog in MD

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taria wrote in message news:...

I got a book called Super Simple Squares using 6.5 inch blocks that you sew together and then cut apart and sew together again. She wants the one that is all different shades of pink prints. Now, I'm not a pink person so of course we had to make a trip upstate about two months ago to pick out pink FQ's. We made a date for a Saturday before I retired to just shop for fabric and then see what we could get in to. Well, after we left the fabric shop, she saw a garage sale sign and since she is the garage sale queen, we had to go. She got 2 big Home Interior pictures for a total of $15.00 and they both were quilt related in just her colors - how perfect! Then as we were heading home again, we were going right past the race track that has slots. I asked her if she wanted to go (she's 30 and of age - no I'm not contributing to the delinquency of a minor) and she said she was broke so I loaned her $20.00. We went inside and within 10 minutes she won enough to pay me back my $20.00. After about 10 more minutes I heard this loud voice going "Mom, Mom". Now, I know that all you mothers know that in a large room full of women, most of us are Moms but we each seem to know the sound of our own kids. She came around the corner wide eyed and yelling, "I won, I won". I figured, OK, maybe a few hundred. When I came around the corner and looked at the machine, she had won - now get this - $4300.00 on a quarter machine. It was only the second time she'd been there so talk about luck! Anyway, we've named this quilt already. It's the "$4300 Quilt" and it will be funny 100 years from now to see people scratching their heads over this one.

All in all, a very good day!

Carolyn from DE

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Carolyn from DE

Take me next time!

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taria

I enjoy relaxing for an hour or so in the evening after work/dinner doing the patchwork blocks. I feel like I have accomplished something when I can make a block or two. Right now I am in between new and old projects, although may start one later this week. I feel lost with no blocks to do in the evening :)

For MQ I have to have to have the whole day off, preferably the whole weekend. Its not as much fun as the piecing but w/o it the quilt isn't done!

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