Skip to main content

My New Sewing Space

So Michael eventually came home and we made a start on sorting the bomb site out. We live in a three bed semi and we have filled it with a LOT of shit  treasures. Up till how I have sewed on a gateleg table set up in the middle of the living room. And as it's only a three bed semi, it ended up taking up most of the living room. Not ideal. Michael is a computer/xbox person and had a desk with his tv screen monitor on and an archair in the middle of the dining room. So we swapped. And too the opportunity to improve the storage a bit.

Here is my sewing area before.



And here is my sewing space now.

yes - the telly is huge!

I love my tree but I think he needs to sit on the
floor rather than the side board...
The desk was not part of the solution, but we can't get it apart! Over the next few weeks it will be moving to Linda's house for her sewing machine, and I will be going back to the gateleg table, so that when lots of people are expected I can put it all away and give us a lot more room.

All of the furniture is Expedit from Ikea and it went together really quickly and easily. I even have little drawers for bits and pieces. Unfortunately I have to share the storage with Michael...

And here  is my wonderful geeky hubby in gaming heaven in his new gaming space!

Apologies for the legs! It's been over 20 degrees here today!
Success (providing you don't look at the rest of the house!) Back to work tomorrow for a rest!

Comments

Cherie said…
It sure looks like a great improvement. How odd the table couldn't come apart. I like all the little shelves, tis a shame you have to share them less space for fabric! =D
2 September 2012 at 22:06
Isisjem said…
It's good to get organised - but yeah shame you have to share - start on a plan to sneak his stuff out ;-)
3 September 2012 at 11:58
Nic said…
I like how you've put the shelving on it's side to work for you. The drawer inserts and cubes are on my list too. How do you find them? It's always good to get things organised how you want them.
3 September 2012 at 21:07
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blogger's Quilt Festival: Autumn 2012

This weekend it's the Blogger's Quilt Festival over at Amy's Creative Side Since the last festival I have finished loads of quilts which I could enter, but I'm sure anyone who follows my blog will have guessed which quilt I'm entering.....and will probably be fed up of seeing it by now :) The Farmer's Wife Quilt - here's the story and lots of photos! In June 2011 some of my favourite bloggers joined the Farmer's Wife QAL on Flickr and I got sucked in! I had just learnt how to foundation piece, so I also joined the Yahoo group and "borrowed" my parents printer to print off all of the foundation patterns. I hate templates, and there were some blocks that would have been impossible to rotary cut - including some of my favourites! Peaceful Hours; Spiders Web; Jackknife Century of Progress; Night and Day; Wood Lily I had been looking for an excuse to buy use batik fabrics. I just had to decide on black. Or white. I change my mind a...
26 comments
Read more

Sweet Serenade Pincushions

This week has been about preparation, rather than sewing. I'm still hoping to meet my deadline of a full sized quilt by mid July - it's for friends that we don't see often - by which I mean, once a year, and that once a year is coming up quickly. I'm using Sweet Serenade by Basic Grey for Moda, which was released a few years ago now. I confess when I first bought it, I didn't have a plan for it, I just knew I liked it. But I also knew that it wasn't really my normal fabric choice. It was fabric I would enjoy sewing with, but perhaps not the end result so much. Then I realised it's colour scheme was perfect for these friends. I've spent this week cutting out all the pieces for the remaining 20 blocks. And by Thursday night when I finished I was feeling like I hadn't achieved much. Obviously I had and when I started piecing the blocks, they went together beautifully quickly. But I needed a quick finish on Friday Earlier this month, Fat Qu...
3 comments
Read more

Meet Mia

***warning - lots of photos*** It is the first of March and therefore time for a review of what I achieved in February. There was some sewing for the first 23 days - I finished the quilt for Baby I made progress on the quilt for a friend's Baby and I finished my Thread Along Quilt  top I made some Dear Jane blocks (you can see them here , here and here ) and some Farmer's Wife Blocks And then on 24th February I went into labour and 12 hours later at 11.26pm we welcomed Amelia Lily to the world. Mia for short, weighed 9lbs 1 oz (4110g). We came home on Thursday after a few days in hospital and now we are juggling feeds, nappies and sleeps. Three hours old I love how suspicious she looks in this picture... We had a very handmade home coming with a knitted cardi and blankie from Grandma - my name was mud as the blanket was over 230 rows each with over 230 stitches plus a border.... I don't knit so I don't really understand - Grandma made sure I ...
21 comments
Read more

Labels

Show more

Archive

Show more