We just finished up my new sewing room. I have a huge area now and I think it is beautiful.
It was the storage area that was off the laundry room in our basement. Our basement is partially finished. The funny thing is the unfinished part is in the laundry room. This part had the walls and the ceiling completed and we have nice lighting. We do have some built in cabinets but those are full of all my bedding and some odds and ends. I also have some shelves down there that I have for food storage but we redid that and added a huge table with both my serger and my regular machine side by side. This table is so big that my cutting template fits along the back side with plenty of room to spare and on one end is my dress form and the other end I set up the ironing board. I have one of the kids old dressers behind me. In it I used the top drawer for all the zippers and then I used a stiff piece of cardboard for a divider and on the other side I put all my bags of buttons. I bought them by the gallon bag when a factory closed down. The next drawer is just for all my lace trims. The next is for all my needles and things like safety pins and all my specialty clasps, pearl snaps and such. The next is all the trims and bias tapes. I filled the whole dresser. I used to have those things in rubber maid tubs. I also have two, well almost three tubs of patterns to keep. I did give lots away, but these I are the ones that I can't part with. See I am going to go back to sewing at least part time for a living. My husband is working two jobs and in our town the economy is so bad that means he is getting not much more than min wage at each one, so I must bring in more to help out and this is where I can help. I also have a commercial upholstery machine and I did leave room for that as well. I am not going to bring it in quite yet and maybe I won't have to either. I hope to not stretch myself that thin. LOL!!!
So for a little while I won't be spinning as much as I like to. My husband asked me to spin some purple last night. Then he told me I didn't have to do this. He could always get another job. Well that just made me feel worse. Him offering to take on a third job just so I could spin and not pull my own weight. That man sure does love me. So when the purple is done the wheels will just have to set for a while. Not to long, I am sure I will find a moment or two to give it a whorl. Pun intended. | 
• March 7, 2006 - Untitled Comment
Very cool.
Deanna