- Think about the boss
- Listen to Benjamin Blümchen
- Chew on the glass head of a sewing pin
- Give the sewing machine a pet name
- Sew faster when the thread is running out
- Get hot flashes while cutting fabric
- Dirty talk with the sewing machine
- Pet the sewing machine on the head when everything has gone well
- Secretly sniff the sewing machine
- Hug the sewing machine
- Turn down the music when sewing in reverse
- Consider the sewing machine a highly sensitive part of your own body
- Forget to eat and drink and then collapse
- Loudly sing Christmas carols during a summer sewing project
- Recite poems
- Spit at the cat
- Ask the sewing machine if it wants to screw with you
- Sew to the beat of the music
- Pull your shoulders up to your earlobes (and beyond)
- Forget to go to the bathroom
- Lock the door so no one can disturb you
- Forget the children at kindergarten
- Accidentally not go to sleep
- Dress yourself in a tight sewing outfit - that you would then love to wear every day
- Have seizures when someone disturbs you while sewing
- "Accidentally" eat a 300-gram bar of Milka chocolate
- Pace restlessly while turning the sewing pieces
- Communicate with the sewing machine in two languages
- Drink cold coffee with a fly in it
- Let out blasphemous curses
- Praise the sewing machine
- Threaten to disinherit the sewing machine
- Lie awake at night and wonder if the sewing machine is lonely
- Think about work
- Convince yourself that sewing is somehow a sport too
- Unplug the phone and wonder after a week why no one calls
- Clench your buttocks really tight
- Watch Sesame Street
- Hold your breath
- "Sew" with your face
- Shop online
- Look out the window and realize that the garden is completely neglected
- Suddenly forget your child's first name
- Threaten the sewing machine with excommunication
- Don't turn down the heating at night so that the sewing machine can also stay nice and warm
- Hate it when someone else touches your sewing machine
- Sew with chills
- Realize that the sight of your fabric shelf turns you on more than your husband's ass
- Wish you had a third (or better yet: fourth!) hand
- Bribe your husband for next weekend
- Impatiently pull at the fabric before the needle is up
- Stick sewing pins into your T-shirt and find them again while shopping
- Turn the iron on in advance and turn it off three days later
- Cry hysterically because you can't find the measuring tape
- Park your tongue in the corner of your mouth
- Call in sick because your seam ripper has disappeared
- Lie around for ages because you didn't notice that your leg had fallen asleep while sewing
- Don't trust the sewing machine's overlock skills and "re-knot" by hand
- Count the stitches while sewing
- Wonder if you'll have enough money until the end of the month if you stop by the fabric store for a moment
- Nibble on your lips until they are sore
- Collect thread scraps in your mouth
- Always get Monday sewing withdrawal depression
- Argue with the sewing machine
- Convince yourself that unicorn fabric can be worn well into old age
- Bite the measuring tape when you concentrate
- Accidentally become a non-smoker
- Always thread the sewing machine with your left hand, even though you're right-handed
- Wear exclusively your sewing lucky T-shirt while sewing
- Push your lower jaw forward, even though you know it looks totally ridiculous, and convince yourself it's face yoga
- Have everything in duplicate just in case something gets lost
- Only book a vacation after you've googled every fabric store in the area
- Ask yourself what your childhood sweetheart would think if they could see you like this
- Think about botched sewing projects
- Consider starting your own business
- Distrust rulers somehow
- Make a pediatrician appointment when the sewing machine rattles
- Replace the light bulb in the sewing machine and then realize the power cord wasn't plugged in
- Quickly trim your husband's bangs while cutting fabric
- Wonder if your new hobby affects your libido
- Talk to your mother-in-law on the phone
- Ask yourself if the Teletubbies sewed their own costumes
- Occasionally realize that you dress more colorfully than your 3-year-old
- Rummage through the trash can for usable fabric scraps
- Convince your family that store-bought underwear is bad for your health - homemade is best!
- Buy fabric and not sew it because it's simply too beautiful
- Always keep a bag of chips next to the sewing machine in case lunch falls flat again (potatoes are also somehow a vegetable)
- Cancel your date with your best friend for the third time under some pretext because you absolutely want to finish sewing something
- Cancel the club vacation in Acapulco because you can't sew there
- Forget your mother's birthday because you're in the middle of sewing her a bag
- Develop the manners of a Neanderthal as soon as someone interferes with your sewing projects
- Forget to shower
- Convince your husband that pink really looks masculine
- Think about cosmetic bags for hours at work
- Look forward to the weekend on Monday because you can finally sew again
- Cheer loudly for the sewing machine
- Find sewing news more important than world peace
- Give the iron a first and last name
- Consider whether you can deduct your trips to the fabric market from your taxes
- Secretly go into the sewing room at night and kiss the sewing machine
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Happy simple sewing, your Sabine
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