Heather - you will absolutely have another hobby if you break open that diamond painting kit, but it is so much fun and works up so quick that for me, it's an excellent side hobby to my quilting. From start to finish, it took me roughly a week to finish one that measures about 12 x 24", and that's just me sitting down for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time and then the longer hour-long sessions when they cropped up. I like having something else other than quilting occupying my brain because if I stumble across a problem in a pattern, I can sit and diamond paint and get my brain moving another direction. A lot of the time, a solution to a problem crops up that I didn't think about originally and I can go back and fix it without too much fuss. Anyone that enjoys puzzles will absolutely have a blast with the diamond painting.
My organizer didn't come together like I had hoped, so it is in the trash. I'm going to have to look at the original pattern on my laptop and figure out what happened, but when I printed it off, I didn't print an entire section for some reason and jumped ahead so much into it that I made some crucial mistakes and I can't go back and fix them. I'm not upset or mad, usually when I start a new project like this one the first ends up in the trash anyway and I can find a better way to make it along the way. If anyone is interested, the link below will take you to the pattern, it's super cute and fairly easy to put together and I have plans to make several more for other things. My hexagon kit will get the first one, then another one for my soft sculpture tools and another to sit next to my sewing machine. These would make some excellent gifts, too!
This Bag is Great for Sewing Supplies and More - Quilting Digest