Top 6 Self-Care Strategies Every Quilter Should Use!
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- Here are six selfcare strategies to help you when quilting!
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Thank you, Michelle!
I rarely have the ironing station by my sewing machine so I will be forced to get up and move. The only time I have one close is when I am doing a block like the log cabin that requires frequent ironing but then I make it a point to get up often. You can also just chain piece the blocks and then get up and iron after every ten or so.
Good tips, thanks! I would add one more: To rest your eyes when you've been doing close work, by hand or machine, look up and focus on something in the distance for a few seconds, and do it frequently. The change in focus length gives the muscles that hold your eyes in tight focus a much needed rest. If you can, locate your sewing machine in front of a window to make this easy to do without turning around.
Well, Michelle, as usual, you are correct! I had a task ahead of me: cutting down 64 (!) flying geese with the Eleanor Burns ruler. I was dreading it because of course the ruler slipped and I kept having to re-cut over the seams. Finally, I decided to help myself out. (Why did that decision take time???) I sprayed my geese ruler with the Odif grippy spray and put a new blade in my cutter. The process immediately improved! I will use this experience as a lesson to myself to (a) use my tools effectively, and (b) take care of myself! Thanks for these reminders, Michelle. I had watched the video a few days ago and finally snapped to it! Anybody can be slow, right???!!! I appreciate you!
Don't forget to stay hydrated!!
I have RA and setup my sewing studio in such a way that I am forced to get up and move. My sewing machine is on one side of the room and my ironing board is all the way on the other side.
Besides getting up and moving, do some stretches also! It helps!
Self-care: getting up to move but also to stretch! I strategically have my pressing station away from the machine forcing me to get up, walk across the room to press. Also stretching s needed! I put my arms out at 90° and lean into a doorway stretching the muscles in my back
Great tips. I wish I had room for a design wall . I layout on my bed
Good Tips. I have a free 10 min. shoulder gymnastics,that helps to get them relaxt.😊
I set a 30 minute timer when I sir down at my machine so that I get up and move. I reset the timer when I sit back down.
Michelle,
Great tips! I love my adjustable height Husky cutting table, it’s one of the best investments I’ve ever made for sewing. Thank you for showing it! ❤Like you I’m tall. I can cut sitting if I choose or standing. My ironing station is a Sterlite 4 drawer cabinet with a firm June Tailor ironing board?/mat atop so I get the height I need to iron and press comfortably. And I’ve deliberately built standing into my sewing room, by placing my sewing machines at two points of a triangle and my ironing station at the other point. My cutting table is in between my machines for easy access regardless of where I’m working at. My other tip is to keep hand cream in my sewing room because the sizing or starch on our fabrics can dry out skin something fierce, making hands irritated and sore.
As usual great tips and reading the readers tips are also great.
👋👋 ❤. Great tips. Happy Sewing
I love my bungee chair that I got from The Container Shop. It isn’t over the top expensive and adjustable.
👋👋 great tips. Happy sewing
Great ideas Michelle!!
I purposely have my iron several steps away from my sewing area. I'm not a fan of finger pressing, so that makes me get up and move around.
My friend told me she sews by the 15-45 method. Huh? Set a timer for 45 minutes to sew then get up and do housework for 15 minutes (empty the dishwasher, fold the laundry, etc)! Then go back and do it again!