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@katrina2017 Thank you for your input :) really your first and last paragraph tie together my thoughts because I genuinely enjoy doing the things you listed above but they're still necessary things to be done. Now, I think it's legitimate to ask my husband to watch our son after work because I...

@florence59 Another commenter said it might be house-making which is a great term I think. Just curious, would you say buying necessary clothes and mending clothes is house work? I'd say providing clothes is house work but the extra step to sew them in a cute design or embroider them is sweet...

@katrina2017 I often use old bedsheets for the backing and sometimes took old fleece blankets as the batting. But the wedding quilt was all new materials for 180€ for a 2m X 2m quilt. I thought that was pretty cheap 🤔

@katrina2017 Oh, I had the feeling that making quilts myself is way cheaper than buying quilts of the same size/intricacy. E.g. my sister wished for a wedding quilt as her wedding present from me and similar quilts online cost easily twice or three times as much as the material cost for the...

@ambasea Thank you :) Yeah, I think you're right. Regarding clothes, sewing vs. buying breaks even. Since the pandemic started, there are no flea markets here so getting cheap second hand clothes is hard. The higher quality/brand second hand clothes are sold in second hand stores here and cost...

Sewing is my one great hobby. It also entails embroidery and quilting. I mostly sew for others especially my 3 y/o son, so (since this year) almost all his clothes are self-made. Of course I'm also the one to care for household items, like sewing table cloth, curtains, bike covers, etc and a lot...