Sewing Room Wishes

1.) I love that I have my sewing table [actually it is my dining area table] in a spot that that light from east and west sides both flood the area with natural light.

2.) I love that my little crafty room is mine all mine and no one is poking around in there.

3.) I wish that same little room was as organized as I would like it to be, right now! But that project is coming real soon.

Good topic, let's see what the others say!

G> We haven't gone down this road for a while.... =A0so let's hear what work= s

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 07:06:49 -0500, Kate in MI wrote (in article ):

1) I love my office chair on wheels (no arms).

2) Love, love, love having a cutting table that is just the right height. Of course, most of the time it's under piles and piles of stuff.

3) I love my bright green accent wall!

Maureen

1) I love the patio door to the outside, even though it is on the south side & gets pretty warm in the summer. 2) I love my chair -- on wheels and it swivels 3) I wish I had more room so that I had room for a larger, lower desk/table for my machine, so that I had room to do larger quilts on my machine without going to the dining room with them

Julia > We haven't gone down this road for a while.... so let's hear what works

I love having a really nice sewing table (Tracey's Tables brand) with my sewing machine at table level.

I love my sewing machine!

I love having my quilting supplies and computer desk in the same room so I can alternate activities, especially now that DH has his own computer and isn't vying for time on mine.

I wish I had a larger room so I'd have room for a cutting table. :)

Poor dear, just throw all your fabric at me, and I will put it into perfect order :-)

If I had unlimited funds and space, IMO it would be wonderful to have a whole wall full of those pull-out pantry cupboards, the ones that are fairly narrow and go floor to ceiling. Fabric could be fan-folded and organized book-style, with everything visible. A pull-out cupboard for each color, please, and enough fabric to fill 'em up!

My most favorite purchase so far, apart from the SMs themselves, is the SM cabinet. Air lift, lots of useful storage space, including a gigantic thread drawer. I need to get the inserts for all the other machines -currently have only the Pfaff insert.

And I love my swivel wheely chair too! Roberta >We haven't gone down this road for a while.... so let's hear what works

1. Love my sewing machines -- Pfaff 7570 and Janome 6600. Both have limitations, but fortunately they compliment each other extremely well. What one doesn't do well, the other does.

1. Wish I had more space. I'm in a 10 x 10 space and it's pretty cramped.

2. Love my fabric, wish I had someone to keep me organized..

Sunny

A few things I love about my sewing room.

1. Sewing on my Bernina 1008 conversion to treadle. I haven't even started up any of the other machines in quite some time. They are still there, lurking in their storage places, but the treadle conversion has captivated me.
2. Ironing with my gravity feed iron. so hot, and so easy to use.
3. I have moved my writing desk into my sewing room and it is now used more than ever. I have started journaling again, now that it is in place and ready for use.
4. I do like the purpose built furniture. It makes it a lot easier to accomplish something when you have the right tools.
5. Heck, I just love having a dedicated room for all this fun to take place in.

John

Fun thread, Kate!

1) I love my linen style closet that is in the sewing room. Holds my tubs of fabric beautifully. (However, I have a feeling that soon, I'll wish I had two such closets.)

2.) I love the large round robin wallhanging that I finally finished after 10 years which hangs above my sewing machine and reminds me why I love quilting, when I'm busy ripping out a seam I've messed up.

3.) I love having room to keep my iron board set up for easy access.

If you decide to toss your disorganized stash out, let me know. I'll be glad to give it a good home! :-)

Michelle in NV

I love being a very organized quilter. I'm making a list of those of you who need help. You just won't believe how small your stash will become once I've put it in order for you. Polly

You should hire out Polly. Think how long your client list would be just from this group! Though I suspect many of us would claim to be hopelessly unorganized just to have you come visit!

1. I'm so glad to have a sewing room! It is wonderful to leave things out and be able to sew when I get a spare minute. It is heaven to not have to drag everything out of the hall closet and set it up in the dining room when I want to sew.
2. My sewing table. It is so nice to sew with the machine bed level with the table top. It really does make a difference.
3. A big ironing board. I actually bought one of those big boards (or maybe a knock-off) at a quilt show and screwed it to my regular ironing board. It sits ready for anything in my sewing room. So nice to have and so nice not to have to haul the old ironing board up and down the stairs when I wanted it.

marcella

Let's see,

1. I love my sewing machines: Janome 6600, Bernina 830 (old one), Singer

401A in cabinet (left behind in house my BIL & SIL bought and given to me), Pfaff 360 in cabinet (friend found at yard sale and resold to me) and a few others

1. I love the room itself, large, bright, full of quilty stuff

2. I love that my DH never objects when I buy a new gadget or fabric (see reference to "stuff" above)

I wish that, although there is a good bit of order, it were more organized. I keep trying. One day I will succeed :-)

Rita L.

Kate > We haven't gone down this road for a while.... so let's hear what works

I would love to have an empty wall so I can have a design wall and more room. kelly in texas

See there? That's just what I was talking about. 36 spools of Aurifil? I'll bet you have no idea how to organize them. Send them on to me and I will arrange them very neatly. BWAaaahaha. Polly

"KJ" You should hire out Polly. Think how long your client list would be just

Even though I live alone and can arrange my house any way I want and have plenty of room, I do not have a sewing room and really don't want one, either! Almost all of the quilting I do is completely by hand, so the sewing machines are seldom out of their cases -- a Singer

99K, a Featherweight, and my grandmother's White treadle, which is almost working again. I keep the current project (or two or three, actually!) handy behind the sofa in the living room, where I have a nice little stash of hand-stitching supplies in an oversize ashtray next to my favorite chair. For travel, I have a favorite tote bag with a small stash of hand-stitching tools all ready to toss in the latest project and the thread. For the front porch, I have a basket with a small stash of hand-stitching tools all ready to toss in the latest project and thread. (I could easily make up 3 or 4 more stashes of hand-stitching stuff, too.) When I really want to use a sewing machine, I can put one on the collapsible sewing machine table that hides under the sofa or put one on the dining room table, and when I'm ready to do a lot of cutting for piecing, etc., the card table slides out from behind a sideboard and the cutting mats slide out from between the dining room tablecloth and the table pads.

It's the "stealth" sewing room. :-)

Michelle in NV

What machine are you in love with?

Come on up and help me! I even have wetlands out in the back... so you could bring a gator or two, too.... as long as they don't want labs for lunch!

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:59:11 -0500, Polly Esther wrote (in article ):

Oh dear! You do know my stash is perfectly well organized, right? ;-)

Maureen,

no where did I put that pink fabric?