Date: 6/22/09 3:00 PM

This thread is dedicated to sharing pictures of your sewing room or space. Please be very brief when describing your space. Short, two to three word captions should suffice. Also, if you would like to share commentary, do so in a private message to the writer. The idea of this thread is present a gallery of sewing spaces. Commentary, although always welcomed, will fill the thread with a great deal of text and will ultimately be deleted. Clickable links are okay.
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There will always be fabric. It is time we must preserve. -Deepika

Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? — Yves Saint Laurent

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Date: 6/22/09 3:29 PM

My sewing space/room is in my basement.

part of main basement area:


south wall in sewing room:


west wall:


north wall:




Area 51:

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There will always be fabric. It is time we must preserve. -Deepika

Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? — Yves Saint Laurent

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Date: 6/22/09 8:51 PM

My sewing space is very small (3rd bedroom, 9x10 feet only).



Pfaff SM and serger, Featherweight, buttons etc.



Reliable ironing board & steam generator iron



Part of my stash

What a mess!

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Date: 6/23/09 8:42 AM

My sewing space is fairly large. The main portion is on the balcony overlooking my living room and dining room. It opens up into my studio, I work at home, and I have cutting table there and a bank of file cabinets that hold all my patterns and pattern sheets from BWOF.

My sewing machines are on the north wall.


Directly opposite against the knee wall is my ironing table and bookcases.

My cutting table is in the studio portion of my space. My dh built this and it is on industrial, locking casters.

This is the view into my studio, with the cutting table to the right, you can just see the corner of it.

Fabric storage closet. My dh added this closet. It was originally a half wall open to the staircase.

View from my studio. The fabric closet is where the ironing board is attached.


This is how my dh retrofitted a computer desk to give my sewing machine a flat bed. If I want to use the free arm, I remove the insert and move my machine to the right which gives me plenty of room for the free arm.
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www.nancyksews.blogspot.com

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Reply to Lynnelle
Date: 6/23/09 8:49 AM

My sewing space is one of the two guest bedrooms. It still has to function as a bedroom, so I keep most of my fabric and supplies in big plastic tubs that can be slid into a closet or taken to the basement when guests are here.

My main work area:


My back-up machine, and where my niece sews when she is here. That is her mess on it!


Fabric and supplies are in large plastic containers:

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Michelle

http://cheapandpicky.blogspot.com/

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Date: 6/23/09 9:09 AM

I have both upstairs bedrooms for sewing areas, but both are small at 9' x 12'


Fabric storage

Quilting room

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Bernina 830 • Bernina 630 • Bernina 1300MDC • Babylock BLCS • HQ16 • Singer 201-2
www.createdbycj.com

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Date: 6/23/09 9:42 AM

My sewing room pictures.

Ironing board and area.



Cutting tables and sewing machines.





Sewing machines and stash books.

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Linda E.
"The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates" Dave Barry

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
Anna Freud

"Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain" Kahlil Gibran

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Date: 6/23/09 9:56 AM

My sewing space is small, about 9x11 and doesn't have a closet.
Most of my fabric is in another part of the house.

From doorway
Doorway

Quilting Stash/Zone
Quilting stash

Desk with sewing machines inserted
Cutout with freearm machine inserted
Flatbed inserted
Janome inserted

Sewing Project Zone
Behind desk

Design/Pressing Zone; (small design wall is behind quilt)
Design wall

Sewing Zone
From window
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"Well-behaved women seldom make history"--Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Living life vicariously with seven sewing machines...and counting...

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Date: 6/26/09 11:26 AM

Don't get too excited, folks -- THIS is my sewing space (a.k.a. the "north wing" of my study):



The desk is the one I had growing up; the chair was my grandparents' writing desk chair (100 years old, mahogany, beautifully made, very comfortable). The sewing machine is my Kenmore. (My old Pfaff sits in a corner of the dining room, downstairs.)

For obvious reasons I'm not showing you the downstairs storage room where I keep my overflowing plastic containers full of fabric and my six or seven boxes full of patterns.


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When we dismiss or deny the hopes of others, we forget that they, like us, have only one chance in this life. ~Alexander McCall Smith (speaking via Mma Ramotswe in Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, book 10 of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series)
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Current image: Woman Sewing, Caroline Augusta Lord, c. late 1890's, oil on canvas; University of Cincinnati Fine Arts Collection

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Date: 6/26/09 2:28 PM

Instead of copying all my photos of my sewing space, I will just post this link to them (truthfully, I was having a hard time figuring out how to get the images in the post)

My Sewing Room

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Deborah Thompson
www.debthompsoncollection.com

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