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Doreen’s sewing room – Sewing room guest post
By Serena Nabeta | March 3, 2008
This is one 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).
Look at this clever ideas for hiding storage areas! She put sticky back velcro on the edge of the shelves and stitched the other side of the velcro the the quilt blocks/wall hangings. The storage area is covered up and it’s a great way to display quilt blocks and wall hangings.
Doreen has lots of light peeking into her sewing room with the large glass windows. Lots of light – great to have! And her colorful drawers holding her threads are conveniently located next to her sewing machine and table to easily get to things.
This is her book storage area with treadle sewing machine nearby.
And a quilt draped over some seating area for visitors to drop by and say hi! Just look at all those windows with all the light they provide!
Thanks, Doreen, for sharing your sewing room and creative ideas with us! The ideas are abundant that we can share with each other, so let’s share thoughts and ideas! Email me your creative sewing room, no matter whether it’s large or small!
Topics: Guest Posts, Organize Your Sewing Room | 6 Comments »
March 4th, 2008 at 1:22 am
I really do love Doreen’s sewing room,I love the wallhangings she has up and the quilt on the couch is soooo nice. It looks like she really has good light from allll those windows. ‘GREAT JOB DOREEN’
bopeep
March 5th, 2008 at 3:32 am
I wish I had that much light in my sewing room….it must be wonderful!
March 5th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
It is fun to see ideas for sewing rooms. Keeping things organized means more time for sewing!
I am looking forward to seeing more ideas–I will be checking back.
Thanks for sharing your photos Doreen.
Ellen
March 11th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Thank you all for your comments on my sewing room. It is nice to have the light from the sunroom.
Thanks agin and Thank you Serena for sharing my things,
Hugs Doreen
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 am
Great minds think alike….I have used book shelves since the closet got filled. Since I still like to sew my own clothes and on occasion for others, I have kept the hang bar in the closet in my sewing room, but thought that hard-to-reach area in the ends was wasted so I built in shelves across the ends and can put alot of fabric in there and it is fairly easy to view and pull out. This brings me to a suggestion for storing all fabrics of 1/4 yard or more. In your video you mentioned that you fold fabric 10″ wide for your book
shelves….about 15 years ago I saw a great suggestion on one of the sewing how-to shows…..Fold your fabric into 9″ or 1/4 yd….if you have more than 1 yard, fold it into 1 yard size and then in half and in half again–resulting in 9″. It stacks nicely and won’t get tipsy, and the best part is….you don’t have to unfold it to know how much you have (a year later) you look at the end (that has the lengthwise fold)and count the layers, divide by 4 and that answer is the number of yards in the piece. I also use the hang bar in the closet and skirt or pant hangers to keep yards of interfacing, hard to fold fabrics such as vinyl or napped, or anything that is best kept flat with few folds. Thats where I keep clothes for ironing and mending. Diana
April 4th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Great idea for folding, Diana! :)