I usually knit in my spare time. It is portable and I derive both pleasure and knitted garments from it. Yay. I used to sew much more than I knit, but those days passed many years ago when I decided that knitting allowed me to spend more ‘creative’ time with my family (instead of being sequestered in my sewing room!). This weekend I have to bust out the sewing machine again. I have no clothes to wear. At all. It is more than simply embarrassing.
The other thing that suffers with my knitting is cleaning (ugh squared!). I am committed to doing a little of that this weekend, too. B-O-R-I-N-G!!!!
So, this weekend I plan on sewing and cleaning and not getting much knitting done — though I will still knit on my frequent breaks! 😉
Hour One: One bathroom cleaned and our bed linens in wash. Motivation already gone. Checked out fabric stash. Fabric options are there, but no thread or other notions. Run to store will interfere with continuity plan for day. See golden opportunity fading. Making more coffee to think.
Hour Three: Drank coffee; made list. Back from store with 80% success ratio. Is it too early to take a movie/knitting break? OK, even I know the answer to that one…will at least set up my cutting area. 🙁
Hour…??: It’s hopeless. I started cutting out one of my items. Younger DD called for ride. Came home and sat at computer. Can’t seem to find my way back to my cutting table. I need a break.
Day 2
I did finish cutting out Item #1. I am trying to decide if I should sew Item #1 first or cut out Item #2 and then start sewing.
Decision Made: Cut first, sew second!
Hour 3: Cutting done; one more trip to the fabric store 🙁 and now I will begin. I am not coming up except for coffee until something is accomplished!
Day 3
One item done except for the hemming. I will work on the second to the hem and then sit with a good movie to do the handwork. The Mad Men finale is on tonight 🙁 so no knitting or sewing then!
Second item done but for the hemming as well. Now to the TV for the handwork!!
Sunday night: all three items are done with 2 minutes to spare!! The third item has been marinating for two years an only needed to be hemmed. Three hems in one day — yuck!
Day 4
In the light of a new day, I don’t think I like any of the items I made over the weekend and may have to do some tweaking. 🙁
Day 5
I am wearing one of my new outfits today and actually got a compliment — mostly because it is new and not something I have worn every third day for the past 15 years! Woo Hoo!
Boy, do I understand. Been there, done that – all the time!
Comment by Nancy — October 15, 2010 @ 1:34 pm
Oh my goodness, I think you two are my long lost sisters – I had great plans for this week and now it’s Friday and nothing’s been accomplished. What do you think the problem is? Am I knitting too much? Can’t be!
Comment by Tora — October 15, 2010 @ 2:04 pm
I’m sewing this weekend, too. New job means . . . I need to refresh my wardrobe. Sewing is so much faster than knitting!
Comment by Kym — October 15, 2010 @ 4:41 pm
You know, I always get the cutting part done, and even most of the sewing before I hang up on something. It’s usually buttons, or a hand-stitched facing, or a problem that I need to solve. But I could cut for you!
Comment by Lisle — October 15, 2010 @ 7:59 pm
My scenario exactly.
Comment by Chloe — October 15, 2010 @ 8:00 pm
That sounds like my life.
Comment by Marina — October 15, 2010 @ 8:22 pm
so have those days! I find cutting on the living room floor works best for me. I can drink my coffee and watch trash tv! Been using mother in laws machine as mine has sucky bottom tension not wanting to adjust properly…i give up on it, and it has less than 12 hours sewing on it! But until mother in law heals from her surgery…it’s mine. What ratio does posession fall under? grin*
Comment by turtle — October 15, 2010 @ 8:41 pm
My mother has been sewing for my entire life. Before the remodel, her sewing room was a tiny cramped little space that no one spent much time in. After the remodel, it has much more space and it has now become the de-facto family room (which my mother will vehemently deny) because we all hang out with her while she sews.
Comment by Lisa R — October 15, 2010 @ 9:31 pm
Your scenario sounds just like mine! The really sad part is that I KNOW that if I actually got things cleaned and straightened, I’d have so much more time, energy and space for the crafts and things I really want to do. But I don’t get the cleaning done, then I get little to no fun accomplished, AND feel guilty while I am doing it. One would think that I would learn!! lol
Comment by Lee Cockrum — October 16, 2010 @ 9:08 am
Umm, I’m supposed to be cleaning the house right now, but I’m reading blogs instead! I’m going to hate myself at the end of the day when I have so little accomplished.
Comment by Katie's Granny — October 16, 2010 @ 4:44 pm
So. . . how about that Mad Men finale? 🙂
(I was going to do some sewing, too, this weekend. Does “cutting out” count as “sewing”? If yes, I guess I did some sewing; if no, I guess not!)
Comment by Kym — October 18, 2010 @ 5:25 pm
Way to go. You stuck to it and got results. Now if you could teach the rest of us to do that, too!
Comment by twinsetellen — October 25, 2010 @ 10:01 pm