Welcome to my "Happy Place"!
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My design wall is 6 foot square and made of acoustic ceiling tiles and covered with a flannel sheet trimmed to size and tucked behind the tiles.
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My thread/bobbin rack - relatively small in comparison with others that I have seen, but sufficient for me.
And a few shelves to display a few of my favorite antique and special items, such as the sewing basket that belonged to my paternal grand-mother, the Quiltmaker 100 Blocks mug that my "Pieces of my Heart" block appeared in, an assortment of pin cushions, antique buttons and portable speakers so that I can listen to podcasts or pandora music as I sew.
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A second sewing table for my Babylock Jazz holds a ruler rack that keeps all of my rulers at my finger tips.
More shelves to display and hold some special items (another sewing basket- this one from my maternal grand-mother and more buttons and vintage spools).
The wall-hanging is the first quilt I made that I entered into a challenge. Bellow it, is my "Quilter's Laundry Day" that features a freshly laundered take of my first published block - Pieces of My Heart. I have found that the larger wall hanging is great for holding notes!
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I hope that you enjoyed the quick tour of my studio... my happy place. for years my sewing machine was in the living room. I really didn't mind it, except that I didn't have a design wall. I could enjoy watching the food network or some hallmark movie as I sewed... it wasn't all bad.
And then our children moved out - one graduated with her Bachelors degree, and the other moved to an apartment so that she could be a PTA student (but the school had no dorms). So we ended up with two empty rooms at once.
One became a real guest room... and the other??? It became my sewing room! Woohoo!
Do you have a designated sewing space?
Or do you have a space in your living area that serves in double duty?
Leave a comment... I'd love to hear from you.
Quilt Happy!
Melva