Is your Sewing Space "put together"?

Hi Kate, My sewing room is only 13' 10" by 8'. I have a sewing, cutting, embroidery, ironing, and storage area. I'm going to be adding more shelving if I can get hubby up there. I love the peg board and thread racks. I can spin from one project to another pretty quick. :o) You can find the photos in my signature link. It is the last folder. Susie in northern NY

In answer to your PC question ... yes and no. I did work for a Richard Rieck... but in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Does that count? The drawer thing from Walmart... was that back with tools... or in housewares? I'll have to check it out!

Thanks!

Kate in MI

I don't have windows coverings in my home... except for DS's bedroom. Really don't need to as the only other window visible from the street is my sewing room window. So at night I'm on display to the neighborhood! WooHoo! Like you -- I love my windows... love seeing the world out there -- and in the spring I can look out and see all my tulips! Keep those gators well fed!

Kate in MI

WOW -- what a wonderful space! Those white boxes are nice -- but I'm not sure I'd like not seeing what is inside... but I guess if they were labeled... I have a few of those little plastic drawer units. I think I will be purchasing more to store thread and other embroidery machine "stuff".

I thought I had a lot of books/magazines. WOW -- you've been collecting a long time! I cleaned out about 4 years worth last fall -- tearing out pages of things I wanted to keep -- and losing the rest!

Thanks for all the good ideas!

Kate in MI

How frustrating to be living in limbo. BTDT.... and I'll agree.... it's no fun!

Hopefully once you are moved and settled you'll have the perfect (well -=- perfect for you!) sewing studio!

Thanks

Kate in MI

PS -- watch your mailbox... I'm slow... real slow... but eventually I get things done! ;-)

I've thought about the wire shelves... do you have any problem with stuff falling through? I don't buy that many large cuts of fabic... mostly 1 yards and FQ's. I have more small/medium bins than anything else!

Kate in MI

lol I know most people have a love affair with plastic boxes, but I never got over my conviction that fabric should not be stored in plastic. The boxes are all labelled and are just the right size to take folded fabric on edge so I can see everything at a glance when I lift the lids.

But plastic drawer units - ah, that is another matter entirely. At last count I had about 2doz, with countless other small boxes and trays for threads, needles, pins, thimbles, cutters, other tools, markers, beads, . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Most of my non-quilty sewing stuff has been relegated to a shed/garage right next to the house.

You aren't the only slow one. I'm watching for 3 mailings. LOL

Wow there isn't but one room in my house that neat and that's my dad's bedroom. He hasn't let me in it yet, except for some drawers that I have table cloths in, which he and I have about quit using.

Jacquel>Hi Kate,

You will get much better ideas, I know, but the one thing I will venture to say is to remember 'height'. If you have limited wall space, make use of it all and make sure cupboards and shelves etc go right to the ceiling. You can keep a small stool to stand on if necessary. I am tall, so I always look to use 'up to ceiling' space; I find that most people who are shorter than I, don't >gg< . In message , Kate G. writes

Kate, My so called 'stash' is in the storage cupboard. I'm only three years into quilting/sewing so I don't have all that much.

30 bins????????? WOW! Susie

Wow, what a neat sewing area. If you saw mine, you'd flip! Mine is the size of a bedroom with lots of space to clutter. Where do you keep your UFOs/Wips? You'd see mine all over the room. lol

Carole, It isn't always that neat. I get messy but I do clean up at least a little pretty near every time I'm done with the project for the day. Those photos were taken right after I had set up my new embroidery area and cleaned through. Want me to take photos when it is messy? LOL. I store my two quilts to be finished over clothes bars in the next room which is a bedroom. I store my fabric bowl stuff in one box, my clock making stuff in another.......etc. etc. and they are kept in the storage closet. Anal aren't I?????? LOL :o) Susie

I am a vertically challenged person (almost 5'1") and I do have a foot stool to reach the ceiling level! My design wall is a very large sheet of batting that is velcro'ed to the header of my sliding closet doors. It is floor to ceiling and 8' wide. On larger quilts I am in the process of making, I often have to use the foot stool to place fabric/blocks at the top so I can use the entire space. I also have bookcases that I use for stash storage that are floor to ceiling. I agree that it is a good idea to use 'up to ceiling' space.....

I'll try to take photos of my sewing room this week so I can post them here. I also have a midarm quilting machine permanently set up in the bedroom opposite to my sewing room. It is my youngest dd's who is away in college!

Laurie G. in CA

Never had a problem. Most of my purchases are half yards and yards, which quickly get smaller. :)

You'll just have to come down and see for yourself!!!!!!! Gen

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: Mine isn't... but I want it to be! : : So let's share! I'd love to see pictures of your sewing spaces... so please attach a link. : : Or tell me what works? My room isn't particularly large (12 x 13 thereabouts) with really only 2 : walls. The other two are: Closet and room entry door; floor to ceiling windows (which I love but : make furniture arrangement strange as this looks right out the front of the house). :

------------------------------------ You have a VAST space compared to me! I wish I had that too but I only have about a 5x7 foot space, well maybe not quite that big and this is how it used to look:

Now it is a storage area with all kinds of stuff piled all over it since the flood in the basement :-( . I have also taken down those shelves and gotten rid of that small cabinet and purchased a pantry type closet. It doesn't fit very well, still gotta figure out how to revamp it all. It WILL however stay the bright yellow that it currently shows.

Stash is quite small now, got rid of allot of it due to water damage and due to the fact allot was non-quilty kind of stuff. It is all tucked away in Rubbermaid containers and garbage bags under my house waiting till it can go to its new home.

Good luck with your space. When/if I ever get mine back in usable order I will post some new pictures.

~KK in BC~ who has had to dig herself out of a foot and a half snowfall... heavy, wet, cold SNOW!! In just overnight we went from dry and no snow to soaked and a foot and a half on the ground! It probably snowed a good 2 feet or so. Here ya go, take a peek:

I agree.... floor to ceiling... only way to go! Cuz we can't get enough floor only! LOL

Kate in MI

Would love to do that! You'll need to come back and see mine. Only about 1/3 of the way there... but making progress. Maybe I'll bring my new Pfaff 7570 and you can help me figure her out. I know that isn't the machine you have -- but I would think for the most part they are about the same.

I've never seen an embroidery machine up close and personal. Mine arrived last week and it's still sitting there. DH asked that I not set it up on the dining room table. So he's been helping me get the sewing room organized to I can get it set up in there.

Take care.

Kate