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Stitching & Crafting Room:  Where do you sew?  |
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
 Posted - Feb 12 2006 : 8:01:47 PM
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| I was just wondering if you all have a special place to sew or do you find a place in the middle of your living? I have always had a sewing room and now, moving into our cabin, I will have to sew in the middle of our living area - or should I say I will be living in my sewing area? I have a rocking chair next to the wood cook stove to do handwork, and I will set my serger and machine up at the eating table I guess. Hubby says he is going to build me a nice work area over the garage, which is SOMETIME in the future! Gonna take some adjusting to put everything away each time I'm done! Where do you all work? |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Feb 12 2006 : 9:22:56 PM
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My laundry room is really big and I have all my sewing and craft stuff set up out there. It is the coldest room in winter and the hottest room in summer..but it is all mine.Nothing fancy..thats for sure.
I do my handwork usually in the recliner in the family room if I want to watch a movie or something or in the rocking chair in the living room if I want quiet...no tv in there!
Jenny in Utah
It's astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen...Frances Burnette
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Jana
True Blue Farmgirl
482 Posts
Jana
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
USA
482 Posts |
Posted - Feb 12 2006 : 9:58:51 PM
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I'm lucky that I have a sewing cabinet for my machine. I inherited a big cutting table from my mother that dad made for her. They aren't in the same room at this time but we are nearly finished with a room in our basement, and as much as I hate basements, even finished ones, it will be wonderful to have everything all in one place! I think I will be doing lots of arty things there and my laundry is in the next room. Handy for prewashing fabrics!
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thehouseminder
True Blue Farmgirl
361 Posts
USA
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Posted - Feb 13 2006 : 06:51:06 AM
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For years I have sewn wherever I could set up my machine and plug it in.
When I was in high school I had a machine that had it's own cabinet and lived in my bedroom.
In my dorm room, in college, I would sit on the floor and operate the " accelerator" with my right hand while steering the fabric with my left.
My first apartment was an efficiency apartment but the closet was a walk-in type with a vanity built into the far end and a hanging closet on one side and a closet with long shelves on the other side. I removed the two lowest shelves and put my sewing machine with cabinet and chair in and then added storage cubes on each side to hold my stuff.
My next apartment was bigger and I bought an old vanity dresser from the thirties or forties. I put the sewing machine in the middle where the previous owner would have had her makeup and perfume and put all my tools in the drawers. It worked great! I just used one of those fold up cardboard cutting thingies and placed it on the bed when I needed to do my cutting out. Our basset hound, Kacie, would lie on the bed behind me while a sewed and sleep or watch me in the vanity mirror. Every once in a while she would get up and gently tug my ponytail when she wanted me to stop sewing and start petting
As of 2001, I have a wonderful little two bedroom home so the guest bedroom has become my sewing room. Ahhhhhh, heavenly! Room for me, all my projects and my two "helpful" kitties. I'm petite so I now use a child's computer work station instead of a sewing cabinet. It has built in shelves, drawers, and a little cabinet so everything I need is close at hand.
P.S. My mother has two regular sewing machines: one for the house and one for the travel trailer. PLUS, she keeps a treadle in the trailer too for those times that they do not have an electrical hook up while they are camping. Now THAT's a dedicated sewer!
Lucinda
When we were young, there were moments of such perfectly crystallized happiness that we stood stock still and silently promised ourselves that we would remember them always. And we did. --Holly J. Burkhalter , "Four Midwestern Sisters' Christmas Book"
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Feb 13 2006 : 08:36:42 AM
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I have claimed the third bedroom as my sewing room. This is the first time I've had a room all to myself. Before I shared with the computer desk and hubby, kids, or whoever happened to be in there at the time. A year ago for Christmas I got a big cutting table as a gift (the kind from Joanns that has both sides that fold down). Now I can stand up to cut fabric. Before I either did it on the floor or the table. I have my sewing table set up so that I can look out the window into the woods behind our house. I get in my little room, turn on the smooth jazz station, and enjoy my peace and quiet.
Mine is just a little old fashioned garden where the flowers come together to praise the Lord, and teach all who look upon them to do likewise.
-- Celia Thaxter
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Feb 13 2006 : 7:16:36 PM
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i have a little 'studio' of sorts ... it's a 'lean-to' attached to the 'upper log cabin' .. i have my sewing machine in there. but i do most of my 'hand-sewing' from baskets that i bring into the big 'ole kitchen .. where i have a tv. i sit in a rocking chair and sew while watching a movie. 'supplies' .. oh lordy! that's another story! those are stored upstains in the 'lower log cabin' .. and i have an entire BUILDING filled with them! xo
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - Feb 13 2006 : 9:00:26 PM
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For 20+ years I sewed on my dining room table so I always had to put everything away before dinner and I kept all of my sewing supplies in a little closet off of the dining room. This was pre-quilting=) When my first child left home I claimed a room for my sewing but it was the smallest bedroom in the upstairs--8'x9' or something like that. The only problem I had with that was I didn't have a place to cut anything out so I always had to come downstairs to do that. There wasn't enough room in that little room to have a cutting table if I owned one. Two years ago for my birthday my DH bought me one of those cutting table from Joann's that someone mentioned in an earlier post and I moved into a bigger room in the upstairs. I love that cutting table and I do have more room. When my DH came up one day to see what I was doing he just stood in the middle of the sewing room with his mouth hanging open. He said "I didn't think you would be able to fill up this room but you have." The other day he told me it's starting to trickle down the stairs!
Marcia
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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julia hayes
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
julia
medical lake
wa
USA
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Posted - Feb 14 2006 : 07:49:43 AM
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I'm an oozer, what can I say? I have a nice little sewing room where my machine lives and my cutting table and all of my patterns and supplies. But I iron in a spare bedroom when guests are not around..If I need a really bug cutting space, I cut on the dining room table...When the kids are playing in the play room, I cut patterns or do hand sewing with them up there..We have a nice table up there for cutting. So I sew wherever and whenever I can.. Funny, I haven't used my sewing machine in a month or sew.. Yesterday I finished a sweet dress for my daughter.. It was like connecting with an old friend! Julia Hayes
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CathyM
True Blue Farmgirl
344 Posts
Cathy
Tulsa
OK
USA
344 Posts |
Posted - Feb 14 2006 : 09:00:51 AM
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all my sewing "stuff" is in the living/dining room area. My sewing machine and serger are on the dining table (that I made myself ) and the fabric, well, the fabric is everywhere mostly in clear tubs. But it is starting to flow around the apartment. My 2 dress forms are also in the living/dining area, yea i keep them dressed, wouldn't want them hanging around nagid now would we  ! As for eating well I don't clear the table off we eat sitting on the sofa or wherever you can pull up a chair. I have been known to drag the machine in the bedroom and sew on the floor with my knee pushin the peddle but only if I'm makin a gift, lol. We will be moving soon and I told my family (my daughter Samantha, sister Barb, and 2 nephews) I want a room of my own to sew and craft in. I'm in the process of going through everything I own in order to move, YES I am considering selling some of my fabric, gah  that sounds awful. But it needs to be done, money is tight and the cash is needed to move. I can always replenish my stash after I move.
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theherblady
True Blue Farmgirl
510 Posts
Jan
Glasford
Illinois
USA
510 Posts |
Posted - Feb 14 2006 : 10:36:13 AM
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When we moved into our current "farm house" a year ago~~I got a craft/computer room all my own!! It is on the second level overlooking the goat pen..I painted it dafodil yellow and after a whole year of the room being storage...I finally got stuff put away and have a place to work! I am working on a couple aprons right now~~ but plan on spending lots of time there.
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AnnieT
True Blue Farmgirl
287 Posts
Annie
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abbasgurl
True Blue Farmgirl
1262 Posts
Rhonda
USA
1262 Posts |
Posted - Feb 14 2006 : 7:04:17 PM
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I'm blessed to also have a little studio room just off the kitchen. In a houseful of "men" it's my sanctuary, complete with frilly curtains, a teacup collection, and pretty pictures on the walls. I do my sculpting in the kitchen as it can get pretty messy! Like Frannie, I tote baskets from room to room with my hand sewing. I start out at the kitchen table in the morning during "school hours" and travel to the living room chair by evening. And of course I always keep something in my purse in case I have to wait somewhere!
Rhonda
...and I will sing at the top of my lungs, and I will dance, even if I'm the only one! |
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Susie Q
True Blue Farmgirl
122 Posts
Susan
So. California
USA
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Posted - Feb 15 2006 : 10:20:09 PM
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| THe dining room table is where I sew and craft. I had an extra bedroom and it was a toss up between a library or a craft room. I chose library. I'm thinking of converting the third bedroom into a guest craft room. I just wouldn't want it to be too cluttered for a guest. |
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