I know there are people who make a lot of noise about “oooh you’re a quilter – you have sooooo much patience. I don’t have the patience for that!” etc. I usually reply that I’m a pretty impatient person. Once I start a quilt I want to see it finished to see it in real life. I’m persistent. I persevere. I can’t wait to see how it comes out.
But the fact of the matter is that there’s a lot of very repetitive work to what I do. (and there are quilters all over the world who are right now rolling their eyeballs thinking ‘I would NEVER make all those little squares and sew them together. SUPER boring!’
Part of me really enjoys that repetitiveness. Rather meditative. Still. Mindless.
And what do I think about, if I think about anything, while winging those seams through the sewing machine?
Why, about the next quilt, usually! Yep. Sometimes about what sort of quilting to do. Yep.
I know what you are saying. As a viewer of your quilts. What you do pays off. The reward is in the finished product. Hurrah for you.
Well said.
I get the same “you must have a lot of patience” comment. I, too, have little patience, but I find the repetitive nature of hand work is very relaxing…and I need a lot of relaxation.
Well my dear, I think you’re nutso to do what you do, until of course I look at my own work and realize we are cut from the same cloth, just put our energies into different aspects of making a piece! And I am thinking always of my next piece too and cursing the things I have to finish up before I can get to it. Frankly I am pretty sure the ‘thinking about…’ phase is what keeps me going. I sure know I don’t need any more quilts. Carry on…