In trying to find the floor of my sewing area-- I find myself once again wondering where all of you sew? And if you are more organized than I am!
So I am asking you to take a picture of your sewing area and upload it to your favorite photo website (I use webshots -- others use shutterfly, picasa...) If you don't have a website -- post here and someone will help you (or you can mail the pics to one of us and we'll upload them for you).
Let's create a sewing space hop -- so when you have yours up -- just post a link here! Add a short discussion here to supplement if you'd like.
Are you up for this? I'll plan to take my pics tomorrow (and you'll see my huge mess!!)
I sew all over the place! In the past I have sewn in schools, churches, school halls, the garden...
But personal and customer regular sewing spaces? MOST of the house! OFFICIALLY I have the Sewing Room upstairs, which doubles s a spare bedroom and a library. I cut and press downstairs in the conservatory, where there is room for the dress stands, the ironing board and the cutting table. And an occasional spare set of sewing machines for when friends come and sew with me! So here are some views of the various different sewing spaces and some of the organization!
I think everybody's seen my 'studio' in my current house- I think this is the first and last time it was all tidy!
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This is a re-organization of the studio in my previous house. My current house has nearly double the size and the same cabinets have been recycled to my current house.
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:22:35 -0500, Kate in MI wrote (in article ):
Sounds like fun. But nobody wants to see the current state of my space. No real floor, everything topsy turvy because we still haven't gotten around to fixing the flooding problem and remaking the studio.
And my dining room table where I currently sew is covered with cats, my iMac, and a bunch of silver that I've been polishing. Plus my purchases from the shop hop yesterday.
Oh, this might just be the incentive that I need. I haven't had the ambition to go over to my sewing room in months (it is over a detached garage). It is a wonderful space, although quite a mess now. I will need to get over there and clean it up anyway as it doubles as a "guest house" and we will be having company over Thanksgiving.
Hmmm... what am I doing playing on this computer? I should be doing something productive! Thanks for the nudge. Pictures of before and after (which will look better, I hope) will be posted in a few days.
I got my sewing room under control in the summer. It's a little less clinical and sterile, now, but remains tidy and organised. I just love the way I can come up here and grab exactly what I need without a game of Tower of Hanoi Patience and three pots of tea to calm down afterwards.
Here's the link:
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The only thing missing is my Mighty Wurlitzer (Hinterberg Classic Quilt Frame). That lives in the sitting room when it is in use, and stacked against the wall in between times. The spare poles are migratory between the hayloft and my attic.
And I quilt anywhere and anywhere. I gather all my stuff up, stuff it in my Dump Bag and off I trot. I am still hunting the ultimate caddy for the sewing assessories, but my latest Mae-West version is oh-so- close.
O.K. I got brave and took pictures of the good, the bad and the ugly. Then I started to pick things up. It really isn't as bad as I thought. I may actually have it organized before the guests arrive on Thanksgiving :-)
Photos are on Flickr. I think that I made them public.
Despitr still having large areas of black paint on walls and ceiling (and the tale behind THAT is venerable indeed, and belongs to a former life the room experienced!), Nel's sewing room is a friendly and inviting space. She has wrought marvelous changes there.
When I first knew the room, it was a dusty and neglected attic, reached by a ladder down a thing known as 'the back passage' round a former bathroom... The bathroom was relocated (rather magnificently!), the wall torn down, and a nice wooden staircase introduced. Access is now through the book-lined study. Nel became ill about a third of the way through getting the walls painted, but it had already become The Sewing Room. In the last couple or three years the place was sadly neglected and became a place of stress and a home for moths and carpet beetles. Now she has waved her magic wand, and while it was incredibly tough sorting it out, she has come through with honour. We spent some hours together in her eirie this summer, Nel working on her quilt and I on my
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Here are a couple more pictures from then:
The Elna Stella Air Electronic set up on nel's Bernina table:
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Piles of my stuff on the cutting table!
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Raven looking after us! (Them's Big Scary Teef, but he doesn't bit!)
My room is small and junky and crowded, but it is mine. There are some photos at . The photos are a few years old, but not much has changed. I did finish the quilt on the design wall and I got a new Babylock serger a couple years ago. I have my computer in the same room, so between the computer and the sewing machine, I spend a lot of time in this room. The space for my sewing machine is small, so when I am quilting anything larger than a small baby quilt, I move out to the dining room.
Julia > In trying to find the floor of my sewing area-- I find myself once again
That is actually my husband's machine. He became jealous of all my sewing machines and when we were at a show one time he just fell in love with the embroidery machine. Like most of our stuff, it does not get enough use but it is surely fun and useful when it does get used.
I'm up for the challenge as I recently cleaned my sewing rooom and moved stuff around. Here are new pics:
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This room has a huge closet, with two doors and there's lots more 'stuff' in there than I could take a picture of, including a 'roll around' folding cutting table and a bookshelf for my patterns and sewing books.
If you look carefully you'll also be able to see my wonderful RCTQ hug quilt, made by members of this great group to help me get through last year's breast cancer treatments!
Sandy, I just moved a couple months ago and am slowly getting boxes unpacked. Yesterday, my Hug Quilt got unpacked and is in it's place of honor on my new red living room sofa. Just makes me feel good every time I look at my Hug Quilt.
Donna
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Oy. I just looked over at my sewing area and thought, no way would I take a photo of that. But I love this thread and am getting good ideas and some incentive. Or maybe I could submit a photo of the various states of general array, disorganization and wasted space and QIs that I'm looking at now. Maybe someday there'd be a reality show called Sewing Room Makeover. I'd be a shoe-in. Wouldn't that be great? Sherry
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