Studio

I've been asked to share my studio with you.

I don't think I would like to show how messy it is right now.

I found some cute photos of DD in the new studio.

They were still working on it here.

My desk is one I've had for a long time.

As you can see, it is cluttered with all the things I use daily.

I set the sewing area up in a U shape with the desk and filing cabinet on one side and the sewing machine, embroidery machine and storage on the other side.

This is at the top of the stairs.

We made a window seat for DD to be in the room with me.

Most of the time it is filled with "stuff".
No one comes and sits in the room so the flat space fills up.

Under the window seat is a cabinet where I have all my UFOs hanging out.

I file them on an excel spreadsheet and annotate by door.
When I am looking for something, I have to pull everything out of the door area.
I would like to come up with another plan, but have not figured it out yet.

I also take everything out once a year and make sure my list is correct.

It's amazing how they multiply in there and then some disappear.

This corner is where I have "extra stuff" waiting for a home.

DD needs to find a place for her books.

I need to clean out the upper shelf in the extra bedroom closet for the games from my parent's home.

The cabinets above hold craft supplies and computer things.

the cabinet below holds extra pillow forms, blue jeans, Go cutter and dies, ribbon making items....

They built the long arm in my room.

It takes up the back part of the studio.

I wish it were that clean now. 

DD at my cutting table.
You can see to the left that I didn't have my big pressing table yet.
I was using a normal ironing board.

As is the theme, after 13 years, it is full, but usable.

having many of my rulers right there helps me on a daily basis.

The drawers hold embroidery stabilizer and the extra rotary cutters and such.

One Christmas DH bought a piece of furniture that was the right height and proceeded to build a wooden cover for it.
I drape the silver fabric (ironing board fabric) over it and that makes it easy to turn it around when a spot shows too much wear.

This is wonderful for pressing.
I need to learn to not have lots of items on it, but you know, it is a flat surface.
If I have a project, like the one in the upper left, that needs to be stabilized or pressed, I leave it on the table.
Then, I have my diffuser and essential oils, iron, spray starch, fan (it gets hot up here sometimes), and normal tools that are needed within reach.
The tall bin on the side is from the baby clothing project.
It was full of the boy clothing and when I get that project done, I'll have much more space there.

The first two sections of the wall of cabinets are where I keep my fabrics.

I just reorganized my Christmas fabrics by color

This is the first cabinet.

Fabric is sorted by color or type.

I had a problem with the way the shelving was done in the cabinet, so DH stabilized them, which means they are not movable for height.

I'm trying to reduce the colors to fit in one pile on one shelf each.

The Second cabinet has shelves on top and drawer under it.

I store more fabric in the top part and ribbon, etc in the drawers.

My book case before anything was added to it.

My book shelf is above the bottom of the U.

I've cleaned it out and down sized many times, but it is time to do it again.

I need to figure out how to store magazines and class notes.

My scraps are housed in plastic bins.

There are times when I wish I had others added here.

But, I think I need to figure out how to make more quilts out of the scraps.

The ones that are narrower have cut pieces in them

it's a system that I don't really keep up because I found that I didn't automatically go there and use them.

I keep thinking I'll have a clean room and put in all my new photos, but that is not happening, so I will just go ahead and post what my space looks like.

I'm blessed with a wonderful space that has wonderful things in it.