Just as you come into the room is my wall o'stash.. I don't have a huge stash. I used to buy whenever I saw something I liked...When we moved here I gave a big box away to some great friends... It was nice fabric, but my tastes have changed and it wasn't being used. I know it went to good homes..
I now buy fabric for a specific project or I will buy yardage on sale...
Look to the right and you will see my ironing station. Hubby built the big ironing table and those wire basket shelves are just sitting in there.. I really need to recover it...Tomorrow I am off to the big city for a doctor's appt and will stop by Joannes..I have a coupon... And over there to the right of the photo is my wall of embroidery including a counted cross stitch of a quilting bee that my daughter made for me about 7-8 years ago. And underneath is my book shelf.
This is my new wall O'Quilts. Can you see where my taste changed? LOL I started out my quilting career with Pat Sloan and even went on a McCalls quilting cruise where she taught one of the classes... I still love her patterns, I just use modern fabric now! The antique table was in our breakfast room in the other house and I refuse to part with it. This is where my friends will sit and sew with me...as soon as we get Rich out of the house (he has been home far too long!) ...I have two oak chairs that are supposed to be glued up by now! And I guess I need to get all those quilts off the table. All those are tops waiting to be quilted! YIKES!
This is the main sewing area. I have so much more space to spread out! And I love my two banquet tables... My sewing machine sits in a SEWEZI table. I love it...
This is the cutting area.. Another banquet table up on bed risers. I am tall (used to be 5'9", probably now I am around 5'8") and I get such a back ache when I cut at a normal height table... Underneath the table is a set of drawers that right now is mostly empty... And the shelf above holds a lot of collectibles...and really just stop looking at all the crap on the floor on the left there... I DO clean up between projects, BUT I clean up right before I start a new project...NOT after I am finished with one.
So other than the design wall which is the remaining wall that's my sewing room... It's big...23'x17' but remember...I have been married 40 years..I started by sewing with a featherweight (didn't know they would someday be collectible or I would have kept it!) on the kitchen table of a one bedroom apartment.. I have sewn in apartments and houses, bedrooms and basements, kitchen tables and tables in the corner of our bedroom...
And today I did sew...
I finished the sleeping bag for the second granddaughter... Princess...what else? I also cut out a pair of panties for the doll but didn't have any lace for the legs so those are on hold until tomorrow...
I REALLY think this word thing might be working!!
Nancy
