This is my sewing room. The second picture is the window seat that my husband built and the bookcases on either side that hold all my fabric. The next two pictures are closer shots of my fabric shelves. The shelves on the left (the third picture) hold fabric sorted by type - flannels, batiks, baby prints, Christmas, homespuns, etc. The top two shelves are fabrics chosen to go together, bundled for future quilts. I think there are 32 bundles! The shelves on the right side (the 4th picture) hold fabric sorted by color. The top shelf (also the 7th picture) is my plastic boxes that hold all my strips and squares, sorted by size. On top of both sets of shelves is a stack of quilt tops, waiting to be quilted. The 5th picture is my book case with all my quilt books and on the bottom shelf are my notebooks full of patterns from years and years of favorites torn out of quilt magazines. Next to the bookcase is the stack of my project boxes that hold all my UFOs. Jerry is building me a cutting table that will house all these project boxes. Can't wait till that's done! The 6th picture is my old sewing machine in the cabinet on the left and my new Juki 98Q on the table on the right.. And the last picture is my current project - a bear paws quilt in scrappy greens, blues and purples. This idea was born when I had all these triangles left over from our exchange blocks! There is one wall that I didn't take pictures of, because the light coming in from the sliding doors was too bright! But on that wall, next to the door is a bakers rack that holds baskets of misc. items and a quilt rack that holds my collection of seven generations of quilts (starting with my great, great grandmother and ending with my granddaughters.) I'll take pictures of them someday and post them.
Pam, what an excellent room, and what a collection of fabric! Thanks so much for sharing, it'll be nice to picture you in your room sewing away now!!
wow pam....impressive.
you should see my space when I am working on a quilt!! lol
You can shop in my stash any time! I have enough to last several lifetimes!! I've finally got it all organized the way I want it. All I need to do is clean off the ironing board and vacuum before my friends come on thursday. So, now that the quilt room is ready for guests, I'm trying to finish some painting that was started before I broke my foot. I painted for a few hours today and I think if I do that for a couple more days, I'll get the bathroom and kitchen painted (except for the cupboard doors) Wish you could come sew with me!
I only wish I had all that fabric I would be in heaven lol. Pam what is the pattern you are using for the quilt that is with your machine I love it and would like to try making one. Oh and would you please come organize my sewinfg room, please please please !!!! lol
I know I have more fabric than I'll ever use and I have slowed WAYYY down on fabric shopping! I recently broke my foot and reorganizing all my fabric, patterns, scraps, and unfinished projects is something I've been working on for months now while recuperating! I refolded and reorganized all my fabrics, cut all my scraps (pieces smaller than a fat quarter) into strips and squares of different sizes and went through all my quilting magazines (YEARS and YEARS worth) and tore out patterns I wanted to keep, put them in page protectors and filed they by category into 3 ring binders. I finally finished up today, cutting a bunch of old sheets into squares to use as foundations for crazy quilts. It's such a nice feeling to have everything done and organized. I'd be happy to come organize your sewing room..... for a VERY STEEP PRICE!!! LOL The quilt I'm working on now is called Bear Paws. It's a pretty popular and traditional pattern and I'm sure you can find it on the internet. I'm not using a pattern, I just started with the half square triangles and those made 2 1/2" squares, so I cut the rest of the block pieces based on those (the big squares 4 1/2", and the rest of the pieces 2 1/2" square or wide). Did that make any sense? LOL It's pretty simple, just squares and half square triangles. I'm making mine scrappy in greens, blues and purples.
Just wanted to say I moved the topic from quilt->other:)
Looks nice... I am going to add another category that allows for Equipment and Rooms
I had a great name for the sub sction, but I now forgot what it was!
I love seeing your sewing room. What a great place to enjoy your hobby of quilting. Hubbies are the best and you have a keeper.
All your organizing has paid off, it looks wonderful. It has taken you awhile to do all this. A little at a time.
I do have one suggestion. With the fabric exposed to the light, you could see some fading over time. I would suggest making either some cute little curtains, (Maybe a quilt top) or have hubby put some simple doors up. I only suggest this, because it happened to me, and only took normal light. The exposed fold of mostly blues and darker colors will fade in time. The material is so expensive, I would hate for you to find out the same way I did. I was heart broken to open up some fabric that I was going to use in a project and there was this spot that was faded. I decided not to use the fabric, because I figure if it faded sitting on the shelf, it would have also faded in a quilt. So it ended up as a blessing. Blues are the worse to fade. I hope this helps.
I thought about that when putting up the shelves, but since the sunlight that comes into the room comes through the window next to them, (and not from the front of them) the fabrics are not exposed to sunlight. There is the possibility I guess of the fabric fading just from the light in the room, but I'm really not too concerned about it. For the last 4 years my fabrics were in a closed cabinet but before that, for 15 years my fabric was on shelves on either side of a window like they are now, and I have only noticed one fabric that has faded along the fold in all those years. And I'm not even sure that fabric came from my stash, since I got some fabric from my mom and my grandma. To me, it is worth it to have the open shelves because I enjoy it so much more being able to see my fabrics. I just love walking in my sewing room and looking at all those piles of beautiful fabrics waiting for me to put into quilts. And I figure if there's any fading along the fold line, it's only about 6 inches that is exposed and I can cut out any fading.
Hi Pam,
What a great room you have. I wish my room is soon ready. When I see the fabrics, you can start a quiltshop. And we all can buy at your store. When my room is ready, I also send some pictures.
Loes
I'm in love with your room! psst Cheryl, wanna go on a fabric heist? LOL.....we could be really quite and get all we want! LOL........
psst.....if you two are gonna go...what is one more? I want that quilt on the wall. Pam will never miss it. Will she?
What a beautiful Sewing room Pam!
I like seeing my fabrics, too, Pam. I put mine away from any direct sunlight in my darkest corner of the room. I haven't noticed any fading so far....
Your room looks so cheerful and sunny.
This room was the reason I wanted this house! When we moved in, it was a dark green panelling! Yuck!! But I loved the size of the room (17' x 22') and the great picture window. There is a separate door, a glass sliding door that can be used by students when I have quilt classes and there is plenty of room to set up a few folding tables for several sewing machines. I like the rest of the house, but that room (formerly a family room) really sold me on the house! And my UFOs, my fabrics, and my patterns and books are finally all organized the way I want them! It took a long time, but I had a lot of time when recuperating.
name the time and place we meet up, and yes, I know we can be really quite...oh wait...i'm going with you girls...I may be concerned about getting the giggles and Pam finding us....but then we'll be laughing so hard with Pam, she won't even miss a thing!
we just paint her sun glasses to look like the outdoors or even fabric, she wont be able to see what is going past her nose! LOL.......unless she has a good sniffer and can smell fabric really well......duck tape for our mouth's.......
I'm putting a sleeping bag right in front of my fabric shelves. And Judy, you have gone too far!! I mean, I'm willing to SHARE my fabric, but taking my quilt right off my wall????? Thats just evil!!!! LOL
Pam, Pam, Pam........ why do I get the lecture when it was Cheryl and Nora who planned to steal from you first? And just think of it this way...you would be just sharing the beautiful quilt with me. I will let you have it back on weekends, IF you come and get it and return it by 9 pm Sunday nights. Come one....I have not gone to far.....I am just a sweeet little innocent girl.
on the floor laughing so hard at our dear innocent Judy!!! Because Nora and Judy, you two are the instigators that are getting me in trouble!!!!!!!!! psssssssssstttttttttttttttttttttttt.....let's get there before the sleeping bag does!! And Judy, you better beat me there for that wall hanging!!! we're gonna have to share that one!
ahhaha......Cheryl, the first comment made was asking Pam if I could go shopping in her sewing room. The next thing I know Nora has invited YOU to go with her on a heist. So I just join in of course.....as the lookout. And I look out for Pam while I snatch that quilt of flowers off the wall....so you see, I am truly a nice sweet innocent loveable ME!! well, as long as you forget the part about me "borrowing" Pam's quilt.