Stitching time

I'm been thinking for some time about the amount of time I have to stitch. Like many of you, I wish I had more time. I was wondering what it would feel like to have hours to stitch every day (I don't mean the run from 9-11 when the kids are in bed). I'm wondering how it would feel to have hours of daylight time just to stitch - let's say each day, you have a 4 hour stretch to stitch...I'm asking because I think I would really like this but then I'm wondering if it wouldn't get too lonely. Currently in my area, I'm basically the only one who stitches everyday.

I do work full time and so this is just a dream at the moment.

I would love to hear from anybody out there who just stitches to their heart's content during the day.

Happy

I usually get a couple of hours in at night. On the weekends I stitch as much as I can. This is usually from 4-8 hours a day on Sat/Sun. I think I could/would stitch more each day if I wasn't working full time. I don't have the luxury of taking my stitching to work. So I have to use my time at home wisely. My stitching usually slows down in the summer too. It gets really humid where I live and it makes it hard to stitch with sweaty hands.

Several months ago I retired!!! Love it, love it, love it. I have all the time in the world to stitch, knit etc., etc.

Every morning when I wake up (that is if I want to wake up), I think WOW I can do anything I want. No more getting up at 5 am, rushing to get the train, deal with the train people, deal with work personnel, my brain just cannot wrap that idea around.

So, now I stitch every day until arthritis in my hands kicks in. I am totally addicted to cross stitch.

I am working on several projects at one time. In cross stitch, I am working on a Blue Peacock. Not doing to good too many colors however as I said before I am addicted so I keep on trucking. When I am watching TV, I am knitting, socks, scarfs, hats, mittens, afghans. For Christmas I am planning to give every member of my family a hand made gift by me.

So hang in there, You will get there.

Mariam

I have been retired for almost 4 years and love having so much stitching time. I am not a big social butterfly and I do have my DH for company, so I am not lonely. I lift weights and work out at the gym most mornings,design new xs projects on my computer, once a week I spend the day at my LNS with a group of fellow stitchers. Some days I don't pick up the stitching at all, other days I'll spend 6 hours at it.

Currently I have 9 projects on the go. There were 10 but I just finished one last week. Must be time to start another! They are Marty Bell's Rocky Mountain Christmas; Another Fish Act, a HAED chart I have extensively redesigned; Blue Marble, a self-designed chart based on a NASA photo; Professional Fish Walker, another redesigned HAED; Marjolein Bastin's Four Seasons; Permin's Widflower Bouquet; Peanut, a self-designed picture of my DGD; Monet's Waterlilies from Mystic Stitch; and Singing Frog, a self-designed chart very loosely based on an old calendar picture.

None of the current projects is an SQ, but Blue Marble was inspired by an SQ.

It's great to get all the feedback - it's just as I suspected...I would love it, if I could afford it!!

Of course, I don't want to wait to retirement...as that will be in about 20 years. However, I can imagine that when that time comes I will feel so liberated

So happy for you all that are already at that point!! Keep and having fun

Hi Cecilia

I work 3 days a week and, on the other days, I have to force myself to get the chores out of the way first and then, usually about 3 or 4pm, I get to sit and take out the stitching. I then stitch until about 7pm when it's time to get dinner started. If DH's business needs some attention from me (he works from home), then some weeks I don't stitch at all and it's hard!

My name is Christine and I am a stitching addict

Hi Christine,

Ahh, that's an idea, work part time and stitch the rest of the time...this just may be the thing to do until retirement. Maybe I could swing this, at least one day...

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Originally posted by Divecat


My name is Christine and I am a stitching addict

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Cecilia, I work full time, have two teenagers who play soccer on travel teams 11 months a year, cook dinner 6 nights of every 7, and do 10-15 loads of laundry every week. But I do have to fit in both stitching and reading - at least an hour of each every day, or I'll lose my mind

Of course, I don't dust, so there's the leeway I've created for myself (it's completely pointless in my house anyway, with 2 big dogs stirring it up all the time )