New Sewing Studio Tour

Well hello there!  Remem­ber me?  The girl who used to quilt a lot but then star­ted a renov­a­tion and all of a sud­den there was no time for any­thing else.   Well I’m back and I could­n’t be more excited to share my sew­ing stu­dio with you all.

It’s so nice to have a room that’s been made for the sole pur­pose of sew­ing and even nicer to have everything in one place.   I feel very lucky that we’ve been able to incor­por­ate a sew­ing stu­dio into our renov­a­tion plans.    The room was my Mum’s bed­room when she was grow­ing up and it’s right at the end of a short cor­ridor.     I’m look­ing for sug­ges­tions for the frames by the way!  If you have any please shout.

For a while there I thought about mak­ing one long work bench but then, I real­ised I could­n’t give up the draw­ers in these Ikea Alex desks.  Put­ting two desks togeth­er solved the prob­lem and, bonus, even more draw­ers to fill up!

I’ve had a couple of ques­tions on Ins­tagram about my cut­ting table so I thought I’d pop the list of items I used to make it here.   I used pretty much the same meth­od of con­struc­tion that Kar­en Ack­va used on her table.   Of course, I only used two Kal­lax units instead of the three which is why I needed the adjustable legs.  It’s a great height for cut­ting and this new ver­sion I made has space for a stool as well.

We installed a built-in cup­board into the new sew­ing stu­dio dur­ing the renov­a­tion and I really thought that I’d got the shelving right.   Turns out it did­n’t work at all and there was just a big mess.   See what I mean… Yuk!

Thank­fully I found someone who could install new shelves and draw­ers pronto and the new cup­board is now super tidy and organised!

The draw­ers are a great size for fat quar­ters and, for stor­ing my lar­ger pieces of sol­id fabrics.

And there’s even room at the top of the cup­board for books.    Thank­fully there is anoth­er whole shelf above this one because I’ve got a whole bunch of books that need to be put away!

Most of all I love being able to throw the doors open and see just about every piece of fab­ric eas­ily.   I draw so much inspir­a­tion from these piles so it’s nice to be able to see it all without hav­ing to move everything about.

There’s still some fin­ish­ing touches to do like mak­ing a design wall and adding a bit more col­our to the wall behind my desks.   In the mean­time its been nice to redis­cov­er some treas­ures like this little star I found in Lan­caster County, PA.

And these WIP’s (work in pro­gress) that I’d for­got­ten all about.   The dragon and uni­corn are pat­terns by Kerry from Kidgiddy’s Land of Magic quilt and the squir­rel is from Viol­et Craft’s Forest Abstrac­tions pat­tern.   All ador­able and all about to become cute little throw pillows.

And just because I know that some of you have been want­ing a renov­a­tion update here’s a few pic­tures of the new kit­chen, pantry and deck.   Kinda almost nearly makes the pain of an eight month renov­a­tion worth it.

So what do you think?  Do you like the new sew­ing stu­dio?   I feel so lucky to have such a nice space to work in.  I’m look­ing for­ward to put­ting it to good use for many years to come!

Have a happy week,