Studio Spotlight-Linking Up with Ellison Lane

Jennifer at Ellison Lane has been having a Studio Spotlight party this week. We have seen some amazing spaces and some great uses of small and shared spaces. Now, I am linking up my studio space here today.  If you have not visited any of the spaces, go look, and be inspired. In full disclosure I did not tidy up a thing for these pictures. This is the real deal.

 This is where my scraps and older fabrics live. Scraps above and larger pieces of mostly older fabrics below, somewhat sorted into color groups.

                      Books on the bottom. The other two shelves need some organization.

A bit dark, but this is my main machine. I also have a Singer featherweight that was my grandmother's. It needs a tune up to be usable.

                              My sewing table is a trestle style desk from Target.

 Books on the bottom and newer fabrics all folded neatly. I used Jeni Baker's fabric folding method for this. I try to fold all new acquisitions now and put them here. I love the method for any cut up to a yard. She has a video if you want to see. Search her blog, In Color Order.

 A very busy wall and my fold down cutting table from IKEA. Underneath it is an old coffee table full of magazines and fabric and stuff.

                               My design wall is an old flannel sheet hung up with tacks.

 This piece in the corner is newly relocated to hold sewing patterns and other notions in the drawers. The wardrobe side has quilt tops on hangers that are waiting to be quilted and my table cloths as well. This piece I refinished a couple of years ago. It was a baby wardrobe that was my husband's as a baby.

One of the most special things in my sewing room is the photos of my Granny and her sisters. I sometimes talk to her when I am sewing. I like to think she is always with me.

If you want to see what my sewing room looked like two years ago when I first moved everything in there, I blogged about it here.

Thanks again to Jennifer at Ellison Lane for this fabulous series.

One of Those Days

I am having one of those days.  You know, you want to sew, you have the time to sew, but you sit at the machine and don't feel like sewing at all.  I cleaned the kitchen, did the laundry...still nothing.  So here I am, writing a blog post instead.  It won't make me feel like sewing either, but I do have a few things to show you, so at least there is that.  Here we go...

 I finished J's quilt and got it all washed and crinkly.  I love the way this quilt turned out.  I bought a fat quarter bundle from Fabricworm and then went back and bought another 1/2 yard of the airplane fabric.  My husband helped me figure out the arrangement.  I kind of had an idea, but he helped me to see how it would work.  He's good like that.

 All the fabrics you see on the front are from the bundle.  The only fabrics I purchased were the green for the back and the binding, which came from a recent addition to my stash.

 I used almost every single scrap of that fabric on the back.  I wanted nothing left over in the end.

 Here is a good shot of the quilting shown on the back of the quilt.  This again was my hubby's idea.  The cool thing about it is that it makes the airplanes look like they are flying loop-de-loops.

                            You can kind of see what I mean right here.

And here is the grey print border.  All in all I am pretty happy with this.  Hope J likes it too.

The other thing I want to show you is my tidied up fabric stash.  I stumbled on Jeni Baker's tutorial for fabric folding here and went at it.  I wish I had taken a before picture to show you the mess it was.

 I started folding late yesterday afternoon and quickly buried my sewing machine here.

 I got back on it this morning and finished folding everything that was on the shelves willy nilly and even some other pieces that were lying around.

 These are the bins where I keep lots of older fabrics and odd sized or shaped larger scraps.  I can't quite figure out a better way to organize these.  They are pretty much sorted by color.  This was my first sorting system I ever had.

 These are my scrap bins full of smaller scraps, sorted by color.  Even into my second year with the Sunday Morning Quilts Bee I have scarcely put a dent in them.  I keep thinking I will use more of them, but they never seem to go down in quantity.

And here is my newly tidied shelf full of folded fabrics.  The top shelf is fat quarters, quarter yards and half yards.  The next shelf is full yards and a few one yard plus cuts. On the left side of the shelf is 2 or more yards, which were either a great sale or bought for backing potential. What you don't see is that all those stacks on both shelves are two deep.  Eek! That's a lot of fabric!
Hope you have a great week.  See you soon.