Road to 10,000 hours

Good day bloggers,

Time for a quick check in. As we enter the third month of 2013, I have not logged the number if hours that I thought I would have. Again, my parameters where that I was actually free motion quilting or doodling on paper.

I have been stitching but not quilting. So, yes I need to get on my "complete a quilt" game.

So I have logged a total of 41hours and 27 minutes as of February 26, 2013.

Here are some pics of my doodles.

10,000 hours of keeping track

Okay, so I am going to log all "actual" machine quilting hours for 2013.  During the holiday season, Teri of terifficreations mentioned the hours needed to become a master quilter. So it got me thinking.

 I know I have been doing many things for more than 20 hours a week for 10 years, thereby rendering me expert, master, etc.  So how about I count the number of hours I spend actually machine quilting, since I am sure I don't have as many as I would want in this category.   I am not counting just machine time, i.e. piecing or sewing, I am referring to strictly machine quilting.

With a full time job as many of us have, I am curious how many hours I will log in a year. So I have a notebook by the machine that I started using on January 1, 2013 and I also downloaded the iGoal app and put the 10,000 as a goal, and it is comes complete with stop and start timer.

So below you will see some images for thought and inspiration. And also thanks to Teri I included a quote by Ira Glass (She helped me off a ledge when I was working on a couple of gifts for folks) and a picture showing the gap between where you are and where your inner vision sees itself.

I am not doing this for the purpose of logging 10,000 hours, but to ensure that I practice more and also to get an idea how much time I spend machine quilting. After all practice makes perfect. And this is one of the areas in which I intend to grow in 2013.