NEW SEWING SPACE

[Bubby]

I know I've been talking a lot lately about the new cabinets for my sewing space. At last here are a few pictures. Only the cabinets and the fabric organization are complete. I still need to hang a quilt on the wall and make a valance for the windows. Until I decide about buying a new sewing machine I will continue working on folding tables, which actually I don't mind.

First of all my room is very small, 10x12 feet. In this room I have to keep all my quilting supplies and what I need to run our company. I bought 3 assemble-yourself wardrobe cabinets from Lowes plus a few drawers which were extra. DH and I put the cabinets together in about a week. They are bolted to studs in the wall behind them so they won't tip and they are sitting on a sheet of plywood because the room has carpet. The most challenging thing about this project was having to build these large cabinets in such a small room.

I wrapped 300 comic book boards with fabric one yard or larger and sorted them by color or type: reds, blues, neutrals, 1930's repro, Asian, batiks and tribal, solids, etc. Every color or type has its own shelf. Of course there is a section for pre-cuts!! The rest are folded like FQ's and lined up in plastic shoe boxes in front of the wrapped boards. For extra large cuts of fabric (5 yards or more) I folded them and put them on a bottom shelf. The drawers are wonderful and we still have two more to install. There is still a lot of fine tuning that needs to be done and I still need to use a few plastic drawer units.

The Featherweight machines are on the bottoms of the cabinets. There is also a shelf for quilt backings, batting and even a UFO shelf! These cabinets are working out great. I was so junked up before I couldn't find a thing. While this is not a perfect solution, given our space issue I am very pleased with what we've done. My DH really worked hard to put these together for me. In our next home I hope to have the sewing room of my dreams.

Thanks for looking!! Barb

[buckeyequilter]

How nice and so organized! I love seeing the sewing spaces Have fun!

[Monique]

I am jealous and that is all I can say LOL!!

[Jean Sewing Machine]

Wow, Barb, this looks fabulous! Who needs a bed, c abinets are much better! Great job of organozing. I think I will get rid of my elliptical and get some cabinets like this for my quilt room, they would be very useful. How deep are the cabinets?

[EnumclawGramma]

Oh my goodness gracious!!! This room has everything I love: White (LOTS of it!) cabinets, oodles of fabric, wonderful thread, sewing notions galore, quilts and organization! I love it. Can I come hang out with you just to experience it? Nice job!

[Bubby]

Hi Jean....The cabinets are 38 1/2" wide, 20" deep and 72" tall. Did you notice there is a wide side and a narrow side? After all three were assembled DH bolted them to wall studs and then bolted the sides of the cabinets to heach other. There are drawers available for the wide side of the cabinets. The cabinets are from Lowe's and come in white and dark woodtone. I chose the white to make my room look larger and brighter.

[cyndiofthevortex]

I don't know how they're ever going to get you out of that room.

[Marebear]

Wow!! I am jealous too They are so beautiful, you lucky lady!

[bec]

OMG! That is the most awesomely organized sewing space I have ever seen. It is beautiful!!!

[K. McEuen]

I like those cabinets and the fact you can get drawers for them is really neat. Are the shelves adjustable to different heights in them?