I finally have my new sewing space sufficiently set up that I was able to pin up two quilts that I am trying to finish by Tuesday. Both are for internet quilt-a-longs -- the Meadow Mist Magnolia Mystery Quilt and the Plus Block Quilt Along. I'll post more on each of those in the next week.
Magnolia Mystery Quilt |
Plus Block Quilt |
I decided to quilt both with on my Bernina with my walking foot, choosing a wavy line pattern using different thread colors for the Magnolia Mystery Quilt. I find quilting on my home machine involves quite a bit of quilt wrangling, especially now with the machine cabinet close to the window. (The view is wonderful but the space is a little cramped!)
On Thursday, I spent most of the afternoon in my two studio art classes. When I came home that evening, I decided to really get going on the quilting and spent a few hours making wavy lines.I was somewhat surprised when, late that evening, my Fitbit announced I had reached the 10,000 step mark. In any given day, I will get about 7000 steps, but I usually have to purposefully walk a few miles to get to 10,000. Perhaps my mall walking with my mom that morning was longer than I thought, since I knew I was sitting for most of the rest of the day.
Since I now wear my Fitbit on my wrist, I decided to do a little test. This morning, before I got sewing, I checked my step count:
Almost an hour later, I had finished the wavy quilting, and had gotten the binding on, all using my walking foot. What I hadn't done much of was get out of the chair and actually walk around. However, here is what my Fitbit reported:
Take care,
Gretchen
ROFL!!! Sewing as exercise. Who knew?!?!
ReplyDeleteThat's funny, when I use to wear my Fitbit, it would show a lot of steps when I was hand sewing binding on. Any wrist movement counted steps. So I had to walk more to make up for those missed steps.
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