New room happy dance!!

Yay!!! Yippee!!! I am SEW happy for you, Charlotte!! And I'll bet that in the long run, your sweet li'l fur face will be grateful! :-)

It's such a blessing to have your own space to dedicate to sewing. Congratulations on a room with a door :)

-Irene

I'll bet your productivity will increase without all the putting away and taking out that you used to do. It is helpful to be able to just leave things in process, and come back to it and start right in.

John

Oh, I am happy for you! You will find that you can do a lot more now that you have you very own sewing room. And now in a year or so, you can join those of us with a messy sewing room! Barbara in SC

I'll second that Bobbie, I am continually in a "must tidy up my sewing room" state.

Di

WooHoo!!! Buy a couple of nice wool sweaters... some wool socks... and sew away all winter long!

How excited you must be! It will be fun getting it all arranged and set up. May I offer one suggestion... I love the pegboard my DH put in mine. It holds all kinds of rulers and tools and scissors and more! Using the wall (vertical space) really saves surface / floor space!

Have fun -- and share pics when you have it all together!

I think she will be. She has already been helping me try to get things situated. I'm still not totally there, but I am close enough that I can start doing some sewing again. I have a couple of tops waiting for borders that it would be nice to finish.

It sure will!!!

Oh, I hope not!! Actually, I really hate clutter and disorganization so I will probably have it in pretty good shape most of the time. Only thing I'm afraid of is it becoming a dumping ground for things that don't have a good home. DH said he'd help in preventing that, so we shall see.

Congradulations Charlotte. I have taken over our spare bedroom with my sewing stuff and when children come to visit they get the pull out bed in the family room. ROFL

Thanks for the advise Kate. I must say although peg board is a really great way to organize things, I really don't like the way it looks though. I need to work out a way to make it more attractive before we remodel and I get a larger sewing room. Right now I have much of that stuff hanging on hooks inside my cabinet, which takes up about all the real usable wall space in the room. The rest of it is either a half wall that slants to the ceiling, or has a door or a window. It means I needed to tip my bookshelf on the side along one of the half walls and have DH modify it for me. The other half wall is a good place for my machines though.

I'll try to get pictures up soon. I also need to update my projects. I have a few that haven't been put up yet.

I have always liked doing my hand sewing in front of the TV in my recliner with a QI napping on my legs. I will still do that.

Thanks for the idea of the sun tubes Taria. I have seen those things on TV and was thinking of eventually putting one in my kitchen because it is so dark and I hate that. Depending on where I end up in the end (we are eventually going to do some major remodeling to this house which includes my current room and also includes making me a much larger sewing room else where) I may put one in there too. They can add so much light and you don't have to use as much electricity so they are a saver on the energy bill too. For now we are only doing to the house what we need to get buy until we have the money to do our remodel since a large portion of the house is in need of being torn down and rebuilt.

As for the long underwear - who needs it when I have quilts!!! Of course the long underwear would make it easier to move around and actually get some quilting done. I think too with my machine on, an iron on and my ott lights on, that will add heat to the room too, and being so small it may even be enough. I my previous location it would get too warm with all that stuff on. Of course there is always hot chocolate too!!! Yum!!!!

LOL!!! Isn't that how it goes. Our overnight guests sleep on an air mattress on the floor. I guess that maybe why we don't have many overnight guests!!!

Dancing in the moonlight for ya, Charlotte!!!

Karen, Queen of Squishies

Congratulations, Charlotte! :D I know how you feel, as my first sewing area was a corner of our living room -- it had to be tidied, too, when not in use. I eventually "graduated" to a sewing closet in the family room (an added room a few years later), but now I have my own sewing room and love it! I hope you're as happy with yours as I am with mine -- issues and all. :)

congrats! Hope you enjoy yours as much as I am mine. Keep clutter out-don't let it start in the first place. It didn't go there BEFORE it was your room--don't let it now. I've been fortunate that I haven't had that problem--room is just far enuf away that it isn't convenient :)

Butterfly (HORARY FOR OUR OWN ROOM(s) )

Congrats on the new sewing space. I used to have a sewing room upstairs in my son's old bedroom, but he kept boomeranging back, so I took over the breezeway a couple of years ago. The footprint of my house is House-breezeway-garage. Everyone who comes into the house comes in through the breezeway. For years all we used it for was umbrella, boots and shoes on the floor, dog leashes, etc.

It's 12' x 16' , has only one full wall, one half wall, and two walls with 8' picture windows and doors on each. My 4'x8' design wall is still up in the bedroom, as is the closet full of batting and flannel, etc. DS can come back every once in a while, but he doesn't get his closet back, no way!

The breezeway tends to be a cold room because of the windows and doors, but I sew on a huge metal desk with an 8' white formica-type panel over the top. I bought a small oscillating ceramic heater which fits under the sewing table and it works great. It was very inexpensive at Wal-Mart. When a friend comes over to sew, I place the heater in the middle of the room and we share it. The room is heated normally, but this little heater takes the extra chill off.

I used to be upset at how messy this room could look to people coming in to visit, with all the boots and doggy stuff. Now I have made a dedicated space on the back of the door for all of the leashes, and the boots are now placed immediately on the back porch, and woe to anyone who puts anything not sewing related in here for more than a few minutes.

The room had only one small overhead light, it now has track lighting on two sides. We seriously considered installing one of those tube lights, but my DH is leering of leaks.

Now when people come to visit, even if the sewing room is messy, it's messy with a purpose. DH's friends even stop and ask what's the newest project. No one minds the mess of ongoing sewing projects. It looks productive, not sloppy, at least that's what I keep telling myself.

Denise