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Claudia’s sewing room; Sewing room guest post

By Serena Nabeta | February 18, 2008

This is the first of several sewing room guest posts I’ll be posting in the next couple of weeks. If you would like to have some ideas and photos from your sewing room posted, just email me (info @ embtreasures.com – remove spaces).

Claudia W. is a quilter and embroiderer and recently retired in January 2008. Here is Claudia and her sewing room:

I splurged on a Bernina 730 last September as a reward for surviving 2007 more or less sane and making it to retirement. The year 2007 was pretty hard for me and my family, in that our daughter Bridget and her husband Chris had a beautiful baby boy Gregory in January 2007 born with a very serious heart defect. In July 2007 he had open heart surgery and he’s now very healthy and doing great.

So, having survived a tough 2007 and finally retired, I splurged and bought a Bernina 730E in September 2007. I had a Bernina 180E before. (I also own a Bernina 153, a Bernina 930 that lives with my older daughter Jessica, and a Janome Memorycraft 6000 which lives with my daughter Bridget).

The highlights of my room (which is the 2nd largest bedroom in our home) include:

- a shallow, wide closet that used to have bi-fold doors on it. We took those off and installed floor to ceiling wire shelves which hold all my notions, designs, threads, etc. (Pretty much everything except books and fabric)

- an Elfa wire drawer system from the Container Store for fabric storage. I have only quilt fabric. It is all organized by color. This picture is a couple of years old and the drawers are all almost full now.

-book storage is on a single shelf about 14″ down from my ceiling all the way around the room. This makes use of an otherwise wasted space. I have to keep a step stool handy to get at my “library.” I recently bought a computer program called ListPro that I am going to use to catalog my books once I weed out the ones I no longer need.

-my design wall is a large seamed piece of white flannel hanging by a Velcro strip to a mounting strip near the top of one wall.

Thanks for sharing your sewing room with us, Claudia! What a treat to see your creative room and the storage ideas you have inside. Don’t you just love her closet shelves and baskets of fabric?! The ideas we can gain from each other are abundant, so lets hear yours!

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5 Responses to “Claudia’s sewing room; Sewing room guest post”

Anonymous Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

Claudia, I love your closet!! Thanks for sharing photos of your sewing room! What fun to see!
peep Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 1:35 am

Claudia, I love your sewing room, your closet is so organized. I am so Thankful to hear that your Grandbaby is doing good now.
bopeep
Elaine Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 1:55 am

Thanks. I am always looking at ideas for using the closet (just like yours) in my work room more effectively. Love the shelves.

Elaine
Norman, Ok
Anonymous Says:
February 20th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Claudia, I loved looking at the pictures of your sewing room. I like how you have created the storage space in your closet.
Mary
Donna Z. Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

Claudia, you have such a wonderful space to work! With all of the organization, you are free to create and that’s really the bottom line, isn’t it? Thank you for sharing.

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