Sunday, April 15, 2007

Blog Monster

So my friend says to me, “Susan, you don’t seem to be sewing much these days. What’s up? You haven’t brought in any new show and tell items?” I felt like I had been caught with my hand in the cookie jar. See, I started writing this blog exactly one month ago today, and I can not believe how it has grabbed a hold of me! In the incredibly intelligent words of my newly met blog sister from Wisconsin, “ …but the Blog Monster sucked me in….” I have become a blog stalker, constantly looking to see what everyone else is sewing, instead of actually sewing myself! Is this something that will pass, or am I doomed? Is my granddaughter destined to cover at night with store bought blankets? Oh, my gosh, how do I get this monkey off my back? Is there a 12 Stitch program I can enroll in? What’s to become of my beloved Janome if left unused for more than 24 hours? Will she seize up like an old, oil-less engine? Oh, the dreadfulness of it all. Oh, the shame. Today, I am going to get this under control. I am going to reclaim my sewing time and start producing again. I am just going to post this one post, and then I am definitely, definitely, going to sew the backing for my Scrappy Christmas HoHoHo quilt. Today I WILL do that backing, right after I wander over to see if Bonnie is back from vacation.....

4 comments:

swooze said...

I know what you mean! Luckily I can read at work and cannot sew. So I sew when I am at home. Try setting goals with a deadline and see if that helps!

Judy said...

Meeting so many new friends is a lot of fun! However, I'm finding that the blogging has encouraged me to finish more projects because it seems as if everyone else is doing more than I am!

Quilter Kathy said...

I think it does get better after a while, but it's definately another hobby...I call it "running around the ring" and it is lots of fun.
I limit my time for that in the evenings when I'm too tired to sew.

Paula, the quilter said...

Like Swooze, I usually do my stalking at work. Then I either quilt or knit in the evenings. It does get better.