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. <\/p>\n
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!’<\/p>\n
Part of me really enjoys that repetitiveness. Rather meditative. Still. Mindless.<\/p>\n
And what do I think about, if I think about anything, while winging those seams through the sewing machine?<\/p>\n
Why, about the next quilt, usually! Yep. Sometimes about what sort of quilting to do. Yep. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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