More and More Hobbies Needed

While I was in Maine I got inspired to make a quilt after visiting a very schmired art and fabric store. I spent a hour or so picking out fabrics with little actual quilting knowledge. I did buy a pattern to help me with amounts and sizes of cuts, but it assumed the user had a wealth of quilting knowledge.
I thought this might be a nice empty nest project to fill the hours. Well, I must have worked in a sweat shop in a former life. I started working on the quilt top last week, since Carter is still at camp being a counselor. The pattern was for a twin sized quilt, but I decided to make it a king to go on our bed. I thought that would add a lot of time to this project.  
Despite almost doubling the size I finished the quilt top today. I made two big mistakes that involved ripping out seams of two long pieces, but other than that it went fairly smoothly. It is not perfect, but nothing is. On Sunday I ordered some material for the back and lord knows when it will get here. I have decided to take the top to a place where they will do the quilting. It is such a big quilt I just don’t think my standard sewing machine can handle quilting it and I certainly don’t want to hand quilt it.
I have decided that needlepoint is a much easier hobby. I can needlepoint almost anywhere that there is light. Needlepoint does not leave thousands of tiny threads all over the floor. My back never hurts from needlepointing, unlike sitting at the sewing machine or standing over the rotary cutter which does take its toll.
I used to think that needlepoint was expensive, then I decided to make this quilt. At least a quilt can be used everyday unlike my horde of needlepoint Christmas ornaments.  I can’t afford hobbies that cost me five hundred dollars a week.
The really bad news is that I finished it too quickly. So much for filling up the empty nest hours quilting. I may make another one, but not right away. I think I need to take a class to learn some correct skills to move to the next level. At least a class will take a while.  
I am just built for production work. Too bad there is nothing I really need that I could make, like a new dining room table or chest of drawers. I need some more substantial hobbies.