{"id":4126,"date":"2016-03-20T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2016-03-20T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T14:27:30","slug":"sewing-and-sewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/sewing-and-sewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing and Sewing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been feeling really stressed out lately. The combination of pet and house problems<\/a>, plus a travel schedule that’s kindof bananas, plus living with a toddler, plus never sleeping enough, plus I don’t know there’s probably some other stuff on that list… has done a real number on me. So, I’ve been sewing. A lot. I go upstairs to my craft room, crank up some tunes (or a podcast), and then just lose myself in the creative process<\/a>. It’s done wonders for my mental health.<\/p>\n

How do I find the time to sew? Well, the combination of listening to the Note to Self Infomagical <\/a>series after reading this post<\/a> from my friend Vicki got me thinking about how much time I spend randomly scrolling through Facebook and Twitter. And so I gave myself a new mantra. “There is probably something better I could be doing with my time.” I still spend far too much time staring blankly at my phone, but I am so<\/em> much better about it these days. I cleared out a bunch of RSS feeds that I wasn’t really enjoying anymore, deleted all the podcast subscriptions that were piling up, and have been making more of a conscious effort to put my phone down somewhere when I get home\u00a0and then just leave it there<\/em>. And now, I remind myself (again and again), “there is probably something better that I could be doing with my time.”<\/p>\n

Lately, that something better has been to sew. Lilian goes to bed and I wander upstairs to spend the evening. The only problem? Sometimes I get so immersed in what I’m doing that I stay up way too late. Which is somewhat counter-productive (see: never sleeping enough). But! I still feel better than if I was spending my evenings watching TV. Plus,\u00a0I managed to make some pretty things.<\/p>\n

I am doing not one, but two quilt-alongs. I like the Crossroads Quilt Along, but new blocks only come out once a month. So, I decided\u00a0to do the Splendid Sampler <\/a>as well. I am way behind on the Splendid Sampler, but I have been just loving the blocks. I splurged and bought myself a bunch of orange and pink fabrics. I’m making this one for myself and it’s all about the prints that bring me joy. Lilian has been bitten by the sewing bug as well, so she and I have been making some things together. I am working on a quilt for her that just needs to be quilted and bound, but the hand-basting is taking me forever. I have another project that I’m working on as well, but that one is a present, so no pictures until it’s done!<\/p>\n

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A photo posted by Hope Roth (@beerandpie)<\/a> on