Sewing Room Tour

Ready for a peek at where all my projects come from?  Today's the day!  Welcome to my sewing room...

Perhaps I'm lucky enough to have a whole room to devote to sewing.  It could also be said that my sewing tools, supplies, and fabric stash just took over a whole room.  In fact, the sewing activities spill out of this room, since my dining table doubles as a cutting table and all the computing power is also in a different room.

You'll notice that the walls are a lovely coral color.   Once upon a time, they were beige, but that just doesn't stimulate creativity or effort, at least for me.  It goes well with the rest of the house, none of which is beige any more.   The floor is carpeted, definitely not my first choice for a sewing room, where it is really nice to  be able to sweep up all the loose threads and small pieces, but that's a project for later.

Here's my ironing station.  There's nothing fancy here.  The iron is at least 10 years old and I think I bought it from Walmart.  The art is a different matter.  It's a genuine hand painted batik from the island of Bali in Indonesia.   It's a rather different depiction of the classic mermaid -- this one's a lion fish, so watch out!

Some of my tools and supplies, mostly the smaller stuff, is stored on open shelves.   The baskets generally came filled with peaches or tomatoes, so this is an example of reuse.  The paint color on the shelves is left over from a different residence, but it seems to work, at least in my color sense.

It's not possible to have too much art or inspiration in a sewing room, so I hung a quilt by my most talented Aunt Kathy.  The colors go well with other things in the room.

This room comes with a really nice big closet. Two sets of wire shelves from Home Depot just fit and keep fabric and other supplies mostly organized.  With a solid door, this closet stays dark, so there's no light damage to sensitive items.

Here's the grand finale: the sewing table.  It's about 4 ft long, just big enough for my largest machine with the embroidery unit attached.  It's not a special sewing table, it's just a sturdy table from the office section of IKEA.  Currently, it's occupied by my Husqvarna Designer SE LE, a remarkably capable and rugged machine.  The machine is placed right in front of a window.  That provides natural light, which I find preferable for sewing and essential for selection of embroidery thread colors.  The window has a blackout shade for when the room is not in use, to protect the contents of the room.  To either side of the sewing table are racks of sewing and embroidery thread with home made covers that I discussed back in August.

 Come back next week and see what the machine is so busy stitching out!