Comments on: Sewing room disguised as kitchen

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:11:25 +0000

I am a woman cabinet maker and I am working on a line of sewing cabinets to build. If you had 6 ft of designated feet, what would be the most important things to have right there in that 6 ft. These would be furniture specially for storing sewing supplies for todays seamstress and can close it up and hide it all with doors. Please let me know and maybe send me pictures of your sewing room now and your dream unit. Sue wishonranch@hotmail.com

By: Simone

Simone — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:18:31 +0000

Hi,
My name is Simone and i live in the netherlands, i live in a 3 bedroom flat and that’s big enough for me and mu daughter. because i’m a tv-junkie, a working mom and a quilter my living room is more of a working/sewing place these days than a usual living room.
we have a spare bedroom which i could use for my crafts but hey i just live here and a room without heating and tv doesn’t work for me.
My old fabrics are in the seperate room, in the closet but all the rest of my quilting is in het living room. The dinner table is the table for my sewing machine and the couch is the place for my heaxagon projects, i’ve finished my first king size 1,5″ hexagon quilt a few months ago and now i’m making one for myself, i’m just making them 1″ now and this will be probably one for myself.

greetings and have a happy easter (yeah 2 days more time for my addiction)
Simone

By: Mal

Mal — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:49:01 +0000

@Dee: Isn’t it funny what we’ll go through to make room for our creative pursuits? I love to see other people’s studio space and to hear about how they work. And, I think you’re right on about the fabric being like liquid and seeping everywhere. I get some giveaway fabric, too, and your offer of giveaway made me all jumpy! But, no new fabric! (My mom is cleaning out her stash and bringing me a trunk-load next week! How am I going to be able to fit it all?)

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:05:47 +0000

I sprawl… I have a dedicated basement, which is large and unfinished, so in the winter, I use the kitchen table and like you, also use the change as an opportunity to switch to a lot more hand-sewing… Basically, I now see fabric as a liquid, which flows into every available nook and cranny. The management of it is truly challenging….

And who can throw any of it out? Esp. when you are a quilter who employs postage-stamp sized chips to good effect?

My new thing, though, is when I get a load of fabric from my curtain-making friend (gotta love free fabric!), I sort through it with another quilter RIGHT AWAY, and what we don’t want I put in the trunk for delivery to art teachers locally (‘course, the bags are still in the trunk. Anybody want some? It’s headers from decorator sample books — good stuff!

By: Mal

Mal — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:46:07 +0000

@Lainie: Thank you so much for your kind words and welcome! Someday soon I will post photos of my apartment setup. Basically, I live in a half-living-space and half-art-studio world over here. No one sitting in my living room could deny that they were also sitting in my studio space!

By: Lainie

Lainie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:32:35 +0000

What a beautiful blog this is – Mal, thank you for commenting on mine, and it’s very nice to meet you and your blog. I look forward to reading through it.

I have a big sewing room, but other people would call it a living room without furniture. If I returned it to living room status, though, maybe I too would have dates.

By: Mal

Mal — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:02:45 +0000

@aneela: I see all of these pictures of people with their huge, tricked-out craft rooms and I can’t help but get envious! Even my mother has basically taken over an entire floor of my childhood home for her crafts. Of course, she hardly uses it which just kills me. But I guess I’ll just content myself with living amongst my projects!

By: aneela

aneela — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:54:14 +0000

I definately double dip. My designated sewing space is usually in the front room which is annoying as it has to be packed away straight after I’ve used it. Wish I lived in some fancy home with a full on sewing room and another for my stash obviously!