Friday, October 23, 2009

Have You Ever......?????

..............Have you ever started a new and different project and just DID NOT want to turn off your machine and go to bed???? Have you ever just gone ahead and stayed up all night??? My answer is YES....I have numerous times. That is how this new project made me feel!!
It had me up until 2 a.m....and had me WANTING to stay up all night. This is a quilt along I am following at Bumble Beans blog. Victoria came up with this Waverunner quilt design and has offered up a quilt along tutorial.....done at our own time and pace. Love This!!

My late night 'owlness' has been with me from w-a-y back when I was young. My creativeness started early at around the age of 10 with drawing/art and oil painting. As long as I can remember, if I was all engrossed with my art and painting, my mom never made me go to
bed.....if I was painting I could stay up all night. She never disturbed or interrupted my efforts. I know staying up late or the thought of even staying up all night may seem foreign to a lot of you, but it seems very normal to me.....LOL....of course, the older I get, the fewer and
farther between my late night ventures occur........So.....are there any more night owls out there???

edit note: just so you don't think I stay up late and sleep in late...it has never mattered how late I stay up.....I always wake up the same....I too am a morning person and love to rise and 'get to it'!!

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30 comments:

  1. Yes, but they are getting fewer and farther between. I don't stay up sewing much any more because I make too many mistakes. Give me an exciting book and the rest of the world disappears. Get me going on researching genealogy... :)

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  2. People are so different. I have never been a night owl. When I was younger, at 10pm I started yawning. Now, I quit working/sewing between 5 & 6. If I need to be creative I will draw new quilt patterns or do a little handwork but nothing that takes me out of my lounge chair. I am, however, a morning person and cannot stay in bed once I am fully awake. then it is off to the studio, rested and fully inspired.

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  3. Yes, I have been known to stay up late sewing. Not lately though. But I will be in just over a week, I am going on a quilting retreat with friends and can't wait to stay up with my quilty friends sewing until my heart is content.

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  4. I love getting so involved I can't put something down! Glad you're having so much fun with this -- and it's so terrific looking.

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  5. Every once in a while I can make it past midnight, but that is the exception. Actually, it's easier for me to get up at 4:30am than to stay up late. (Oh this getting older!)
    Love the Wave Runners! I went over and checked the tutorial on the link and what a fun idea!

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  6. What a wonderful Mother, to let you explore and create! I love to stay up late and to sleep late, but as you know with children it seems to be bed by 11 and up at 7!!!

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  7. Yes, I have stayed up way pass my bedtime working on projects; sometimes it's just too hard to stop working.

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  8. I just cqn't pull an all nighter but I know the feeling of not wanting to stop. Your project looks like a heap of fun.

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  9. That's a really interesting pattern. I'll have to go look at the tutorial, I have been loving solids more and more lately! And to answer your question--yes! I am a night owl and love to stay up working on a project or (shhhh) reading a good book :) I do however sleep in, I am no good the next day if I don't get my sleep. I feel not a bit of guilt about it either, I figure it doesn't really matter what the clock says as long as you do what you need to get done lolol!!

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  10. I've never stayed up late - for anything. We wish each other happy new years "in New York" and go to bed at nine. I am up early and ready to go - but NEVER stay up late. My brain is fried at night.

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  11. I love how your wave quilt is coming along! I am totally a night owl too. It's my time to wind down and do whatever the heck I want...which most of the time is lay in bed and watch tv, wish I was more creative with my night owlness. I love how your mom let you stay up late when you were creating!! x

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  12. My brain is too fuzzy by evening to get much done. It is so neat that your Mom didn't stop your creativity, she let it flow. I never was one to stay up late. I really love the mornings.

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  13. I think your Waverunner looks good so far. I can understand how this one might keep you sewing late...it looks like an exciting process.

    Yes, ma'am, I've always been a night owl. I have a hard time getting to bed before 12 and if I'm involved in sewing or a book, it can be 2am before I have to turn in. Of course, I can't get up before 9am either! This nightowl habit drives my DH crazy. But I can't stop.

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  14. I will knit a little in the evenings but I am basically solar powered and shut down once the sun sets. If I try to sew in the evenings, I end up making too many silly mistakes.

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  15. Beautiful colors. Yes, I've done that but few and far between. Perhaps when my sewing room gets moved away from the other bedrooms I'll be more likely to do just that...without fear of disturbing the sleeping. :o)

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  16. This looks like fun. I understand why you were up late sewing. I do my best sewing late at night. It drives my husband crazy...he is a early riser.

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  17. Love the pattern that is creating. I would love to stay up and work on a project but alas my body or rather my mind won't let me. I would be doing more reverse sewing than real sewing when I got tired.

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  18. Hi B!

    I stay up late every night. I think that midnight is kind of early, unless I am sick. I have to stay up late because it is the only time that the house is quiet! It is like MY day starts when my Little Person goes to bed. But the mornings are BRUTAL on me because the whole household wakes up early!

    I can't wait to see your quilt. I am loving the modern colors that you chose!

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  19. I am more like Gari, I rarely sew at night. If I do try to sew at night my husband will call upstairs and ask what I am doing until I come down! I like getting up early to sew or do most anything. This quilt along is so intriguing. I signed up for it but I haven't started yet. My family is all here this weekend and I won't have much free time. I love what you are doing.

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  20. Looks like staying up is fun at your house. I am not a night owl. I go to bed usually at the same time and get up at the same time. I guess I just need more sleep than you.
    Have fun creating.

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  21. I saw this quilt at Millie's and now here...interesting piece! This will be fun to see all finished up...bright and cheerful!

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  22. My Dh says I have no sense of time in my sewing room...when he goes away on business (or golf) he calls and reminds me when it is time for bed!

    Love how your waverunner is coming along! This is fun....

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  23. You are so lucky to be a burn the candle at both ends person. Here I am a night owl and hubby the early worm.
    Amazing colours.

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  24. No, I never stayed up all night and sewed, and I don't think that i could do it.LOL
    Micki

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  25. Wow, this is a great project. I did a bit of wavy piecing for a gift, it's fun to do. I cannot seem to keep my eyes open past 11pm, and usually during the week I will be in bed before 10. I was always a night owl, not any more! And I must get to bed now, good night!

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  26. So funny I should stumble across this post. I stayed up until early this morning to finish quilting a quilt. Feeling it this morning though!

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  27. I've felt that creative energy take hold myself a time or two. It feels lovely but afterwards - wow it can end badly for the cranky sleep deprived.

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  28. I go through phases, sometimes I get so inspired I can't stop doing whatever it is I'm doing... Glad the waverunner got your juice flowing! Hop over to upstatelisa and see how she started quilting hers! so fun! l love your colors Belinda!

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  29. yes, which is why my blog is called marathon quilter! have not been so inspired for quite a while-glad to know there is another night owl quilter!

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  30. I am nearly always up until 3 a.m. or later. I wake up around 7-8 usually, and then I take an afternoon nap for an hour or so if I can. Funny thing is, it's a struggle for me to go to sleep in my bed at night, but on the sofa with a blankie pulled over me, I'm in dreamland fast.

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