Sewing Room Finished!

I finally got all my sewing supplies put away on Sunday!  So glad to have my sewing work space ready for my next project!  Who knows what that will be....we've had the week off from Hilary's MIP online class, which worked out great so I'm not behind.  You can see boxes/etc. all over as we would just place the golfing, sewing or painting/dyeing boxes in their respective rooms.  The dye/work room is next on the to do list! 

Here are some before and after pictures of what my sewing room looked like and what it looks like now.!  

                       BEFORE                                                                                  AFTER

This is a baby chest my daughter and I hauled home one day from Pottery Barn.  It's all wood (very heavy!) but works great to cut on, plus the drawers hold lots of stuff!!  I took several pieces of my art work with me so you'll see new quilts hung in different areas. 

 

This is coming into the room, moving from left to right.  Again, before on the left and 'after' on the right.  

Moving right along....boxes and bags were all over.....that's a very old steamer chest, which holds lots of items from the kids when they were younger.  Works good to hold my rulers and, of course, just another flat surface, which can get filled with projects! 

This is my sewing table...well, actually, it's a place where the girls lay.  I put a large dog bed on that empty spot so they can look out the window while I sew or work on projects!  It's Kalee's favorite place and Gigi is getting to be very fond of it as well.  

Looks busy when I see pictures this way but I actually know where everything is at and everything is right where I need it when sewing!  I use this chest top to iron fabrics or blocks when sewing.

This is the door which leads to the living room area straight ahead and to the right our computer room and then on the left a full bath.   The room is 11'x11' and works perfect for me.  My dye room is where I can make a mess....that cleanup will be coming up in another post this week!  

A little revamping

First off, one of my BFF's, Mary, just got out of the hospital after a mini vacation!

OK, not really a vaca...she had a stint put in her heart!  Whew!  But she's doing well and went home from the hospital on Tuesday.  Mary is a very talented art quilter and I've posted her work on my blog before.
I decided that my buds would take care of each other in this order:  I'll take care of Mary, Carol will take care of me and Lois Ann will take care of Carol!  Because Lois Ann is the youngest, she's on her own...I'm sure she'll have lot of folks to take care of her. Mary is home now so Carol and I will take her lunch and/or groceries this week.  Just to keep bugging her!

Back to revamping....after looking at Tommy's blog where she's been posting  hanging her 12"x12" squares, I got inspired to do something similar.  Check out her 'hanging around' post here.  This is what I ended up doing!!!  I had some loose 12" x 12" squares so tacked them around the top of the wall.

And the way my sewing room entrance sits (it's at an angle) I can see some of the squares/quilts as I sit in our living room!  I am really happy with how the squares hung using Tommy's suggestion of sewing needles!  I have a small container that I keep old needles in and just used them!  You can't even see them from a distance!

I've started to keep the 12"x12" squares I've made, or been in exchanges with others, in a binder book.  I sew D rings on the edges so I can put on the ring. This works well but I like having the squares hung up!  At least you can see them daily and appreciate them.  The book idea is nice to take with me to show others or for inspiration so I can look at more closely!  HA

I also cleaned out some of the containers in the closet. Bob put in shelves for me when we had the house built in '96.  Makes it so much easier to store lots of stuff!  HA

Rain this week so painting the deck will have to wait until the weekend.  So guess I'll just have to suffer and play in my sewing room!!!  Poor me!!!  NOT!