My New Sewing Room!!

Hello Everyone! How you doing?

Great, I hope.

 

Finally after 20 years, I got a sewing room again.

Yahoo!!!!

My former living room is or was the biggest

room in the home that we live in now.

14X12 is not saying much,

but hey I am happy and that is all that matters.

I am now able to show you what the room looks

like at this point.

I am still not finished. I need to straighten up and

re-arrange more but I am getting there!

So bare with me.

 

Walk through the dog gates into my

Sewing Room. We will enter and go to the

left side, from there work our way to

the right side.

 

On the left of coming in an old china

cabinet that belonged to my husband's

mother.

 I still need to get this china cabinet out of

here, hopefully soon it will find a new

home in some other room. Oh yea, that

is zip lock bags on top of my "Gone

with the Wind" figurines. A cheap way

to keep the dust off. You weren't suppose

to see that, but now that you did, I felt

the need to explain. Lol's

Anyway I want a tall bookcase to go in

this space.

 

 Directly against the china cabinet is an iron quilt

rack that you cannot see. It is holding some vintage

quilts that I eventually want to show you. These

quilts came out of my bin that was stored in my garage.

The quilt with pink squares is a basket quilt. The other

quilt with green is a star. This quilt is similar to the

purple quilt that I made a long time ago that is

already on my blog. There is a door behind this

quilt rack that stays locked constantly.

 

You can see the window. I used to have thick floor length

red curtains that blocked out the sun, with checked

shades underneath. I kept the shades. I was not

looking for anything fancy in this room, at least not yet.

So, I took an old quilted king size

blanket and made the curtains that

you see here. One entire side of the blanket made

me a 17 inch deep valance. The valance goes across

the window and the door with very little gathering.

The shades just hang to the floor. This room is

still cold!!

I had to use the printer box to hold my printer to get

it off of my desk. I hope to remedy that this summer

and put a tall shelf there so it will hold computer

paper and supplies.

This is the sewing desk that was upstairs in my sewing

room. Boy, that desk is heavy!!! My hubby and I

scooted, pushed and shoved on towels down the

stairs to get it here in this spot. The boxes on top of

the sewing cabinet hold beads, beading in

one box. Another box holds upholstery trims.

Another box holds pincushions etc.. Much

storage in those boxes. Now I can swing

around in my chair!! hooray!

 

Well, I was wondering where this photo got off to!

Here is a close up of the quilts that were in the

garage. After they are quilted, I will wash them.

 

I have designated this spot in front of the window

as my cross stitch table. I will have to keep this area

clean if I want to stitch here. The plastic green Wal-Mart dresser

bins hold ribbons, lace and just a touch of cross

stitch in the bottom drawer. This room gets cold so I have

a little space heater to keep my feet warm. To the

right is a little white plastic bin. It holds stuff for

my sewing machine only.

 

My monitor always displays my miniature scenes.

I change them every so often. This particular

screensaver shows the gowns that I won from Felma's

giveaway!

 

I still have a small box on the top of the desk to sort

thru. Sabrina the witch is keeping an eye on it for

me. I have been sorting thru getting rid of things

again, so now my shelves are looking a little bare.

But don't worry - I have plenty of stuff to put up there.

I have been stitching on another little miniature quilt.

See it to the right of Sabrina's head. It is a Grandmother's

fan. Yes it is a cheaters, but I work hard on those little

quilts.

 

I meant to take photo's inside the plastic bins but

I forgot. What can I say. I have been going through

these bins. Look one bin is empty!! One bin holds

the television remotes. One bin holds only pincushions.

And yes there are plenty of them in that one bin.

Another bin holds just cutting scissors.Scrapbook

papers are hiding in one of those bins. The bins

still need cleaning out. Hopefully I get them cleaned

to show you on the next post.

It is nice to sit here, quilt or sew and watch a little

tele. My fireplace in the corner.

 

This space is beneath my sewing machine. these bins

need going through also. That plastic bin holds

trash. Maybe it is time to empty it.

 

Here is a little spot for my doggy's. Ira likes the

brown bed. Little Kane loves the blue crate. And

curry keeps scooting his blanket towards my feet.

I keep moving him back cause I am afraid of stepping

on him. Time to get Kane a new bed. And Curry

needs a bed so he stays in one spot. Love my boys!

 

It is hard to believe that my poor over-worked attic

once held all of this fabric. But it did! This was

15 bins that I emptied. I was quilting on my

9patch quilt and washing fabric as hard as I could

just trying to get this room up to par. I was up

many hours. The more I washed fabric, the more

I stitched!

I have tried organizing these

shelves. It is hard when you have so much. The very

top of both units will hold my quilts when finished.

At least I hope it holds all of them. Below that, I

call this section MY SHEET SHELF. This

section holds just twin, double, queen, and king sheets

and pillowcases. I even had some new ones in here!

I use these sheets for blocks, sashes and backings.

Once you start quilting a lot of this fabric does get

used very fast!

The next shelf holds only white sheets and a few

others that will not fit on the sheet shelf. And then

starts the fabric shelf.

 

This next shelf is my QUILT TOP SHELF. Quilts

waiting to be hand quilted. These quilts have waited

20 years for me to look at them. They certainly have

waited long enough.

The bottom shelf are 2 cloth bins that hold a lot of

applique blocks that me and my momma worked on

in the 80's. It was a thrill to open them. I will show

you them in the next post. So much stuff was packed

in those bins.

 

This room fits both of my leather computer chairs.

I will show you the quilt on the back of the chair a

little later. It is a quilt that needs mending. Which is

my next project.

 

This is the other shelving unit. The bottom shelf holds

batting and will hold polyester stuffing also.

The shelf above it is packed with fabrics. The same

with the shelf above it.

 

The top shelf will eventually hold more quilts and

a lace bin.

The shelf below it has a variety of fabrics. This shelf

holds curtains that will get cut up. There is a space for

pillow shams. Yea, I cut them up also. Behind the curtains

are lots of bed dust ruffles. I love these!

I cut the skirts off from the inner section of the dust

ruffles. These sections are white cotton and sometimes

they are paper like. If the inner section is a very

good cotton then I use that for blocks etc..

However, if the inner section is papery, that

is great to use as a foundation block for strip quilts.

Sometimes thrift stores carry loads of these

bed dust ruffles. Most people over-look these,

because they do not know what to do with them,but

there are tons of fabric here to use. Those long skirts

can be stripped for borders or most anything.

These bed dust ruffles sell as little as $1.50.

This is a great buy!

There are also cotton duvet covers behind these

pillow shams. These duvet covers are a great way

to take one side to use in a quilt for blocks etc..

and take the back side of the duvet cover to use for

the quilts backing. That way some blocks on the

top of the quilt can match the backing. Some of these

duvet covers at thrift stores sell for as little as $7.00.

Underneath the white apron is a section for

are some cotton thrift store

clothes washed and dried. Ready to be cut up.

I just finished the white linen apron and hung it.

 

This corner holds 2 plastic Wal-Mart dresser style drawer

bins that have been stacked on top of each other. Each

dresser holds only 3 drawers giving me a total of 6 drawers.

The bottom drawer holds Christmas fabrics.

The next drawer up holds red fabrics only. 2 drawers

hold little pieces of scraps and strips to make the STRIP

QUILTS. The top 2 drawers holds 2.5 inches or larger

strips to sew into blocks.  On top of the dressers are

cotton thrift store clothes. The good thing about

buying thrift store clothes is that they are already

pre-shrunk. So many lovely prints are there. And

shirting's, this is a great place to buy men's shirts.

 

Yay, my ironing board can stay up. It is such

a nuisance to keep putting away an iron and

its companion when you sew.

 

This use to be my fold away cutting table when we

lived in Oklahoma. In the room where it

was located at, it was able to stay open

all the time, but in this house, it could

never be opened. Plus anyone that

ever owned this type, know that it is

not very stable. At least mine was not.

 

This table mat used to be on that fold away table.It

is self healing, but mine never heals?? Anyway I

do not cut on this mat, I use other mats that I

place on top of it to cut my fabrics.

 

I have to show you this island!! I saw it here:

georgiapeachez.typepad.com - new-cu

 

And I just new this was for me!! I am not one

to copy, but this was the answer to a cutting table!!

I am not as organized as her photo's are, but hey,

this works for me. It had added storage!

This island used 4

bookcases that were from Wal-Mart. I just happened

to own these bookcases, and they were being stored in my attic.

They had been up there for years!  This was so easy

to do.

My hubby took the top off of the fold away cutting

table that I owned and placed it here on top of the

bookcases. I then placed that self healing large mat

(that you see above) on top. I am surprised that the

mat did not disintegrate! It had been in the garage

so long.

I absolutely love this idea!!

The extra storage comes in handy. As you can see I

am trying to fill up this shelf. The first 2 shelves hold

Halloween fabrics. This will be moved later. The bottom

shelf is holding some vintage items. Those will be

moved also a little later.

 

This side of the bookcase is towards the shelving

units. The shelf is currently holding quilt blocks

that have been cut out already and in sandwich bags.

Also blocks that need settings. And there are a ton

of 9patch blocks on the second shelf.

 

This side faces my window. These are the only

quilt books, magazines that I own now after getting

rid of 180 books.  The top shelf holds the baby box

that I converted to a sewing box. It holds only my

quilting supplies in that little box. It holds my rotary

cutters, thimbles, quilting needles and safety pins.

Love that little box. Of course I do love boxes.

They come in handy.

 

This side faces towards the dogs. The top shelf holds

my miniature fabrics. Those little plastic bins will

go back in the attic. Then there will be 2 shelves

empty.

 

I hope you liked visiting my sewing room!

Thanks for stopping by!

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