Where do you sew?

[kensington]

Well, I'm blessed to have 6 bedrooms in my home. So one has always been a craft or sewing room for me. Even when the kids lived at home, I got to keep that room for me. It's small and getting crowded, but it works well enough. There are pics around here somewhere.

Actually, there is a sewing space thread here somewhere. Pretty cool to look and get ideas of all the ways to organize and arrange.

PS... I don't have to clean up or put away each time I sew, but I do have to pretty often or I could not function. It needs it right now.

[Alana]

I live alone except for two cats and have a two bedroom apartment. they are both the same size....one is for sleeping and the other is for sewing. It's still not enough room though, fabrics are everywhere and I also knit so I have yarns all over the place. Do I clean up?....when I get around to it....LOL! Don't think I would know what to do in a clean work area........

[bdmsmith]

When I started a couple months ago I was using a large foldable table in our living room and had totes of fabric, patterns, ribbons stacked in the LR and BR. I would just leave the table with my machine setup in there but I knew my DH didn't care for that too much and I kept advising I needed a sewing room. The plan was to complete more of the basement since my middle son has a room already finished down there and we were going to add 2 more rooms down there so that my oldest and youngest son could move down there as well and also have a big space for their friends.

However, I believe my husband got tired of the stuff in the LR and realized it would be weeks or months before anything else would be completed, so he mentioned that I could have the mud room/porch/addition instead as a sewing room. So a couple weeks ago I cleaned off the entertainment stand, re-organized my stash into the clearer totes, and moved everything into that room. It's still not 100% done because there's more stuff I need to remove from the room that won't stay in there, but I now have a much bigger area that's all mine!

[Alpha O]

I've got what should be the dining room. We don't entertain, so it was unused for eating but computers got put in there. It's good sized, but I could use more storage. I use the cutting table for tabletop photography when the mood strikes. I also mat my own pictures.
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[ldnanny3]

I am lucky enough to have a garage 18X 25 that has been converted to my sewing room, large windows on the wall where the garage door was, set up with a 3X5 cutting table and counter in a L shape for 3 machines, then another table with a machine plus my PR 650 on its own table. Closet on one end with shelves floor to ceiling for all my fabric. I love this room and can leave everything when I am working on a project and don't have to worry about anything.

[alliek]

My Dining room is my sewing room. I used to sew in the basement, but it is unfinished and cold in the winter, so i moved upstairs. I use storage bins in the garage to hold my stash and a corner in the dining room to hold what I am working on and my tools. When we need the space I pack it all up and into the garage (or corner ) it goes. Not the optimum space but at least I can leave the project out and walk away as the DR is in a separate space from the rest of the house.

[Carol336]

I'm currently using my breakfast room for a sewing room and I also use the kitchen counter for cutting and ironing. Now while this is working out ok for now...I really hate putting everything away at the end of the day. We have a enclosed porch that adjoins the breakfast room and I think once the hot humid weather is over I'll move out there. I'll have to put everything away for our annual new years eve/dance party, but I can live with that,

[sallie2424]

When my father passed on we moved into his house. He had a work room in the cellar that became my husbands. I quilted on the dining room table. A few years ago I convinced him to move to the bigger part of the cellar (he already had moved some tools out there), and I took over Dad's work room. I use his work bench which is very long and just the right height. I can close the door, turn the music up and quilt away. I always feel as if he is looking over my shoulder and encouraging me and his picture is on my amour. My daughter and I share the space for scrap booking too.

[maxwellthecat]

After one of my daughters moved out, I waited a month and then I made it my sewing room. It's a good size room, I was really happy. Everything was right at my fingertips. Well, she came over for a visit and went in her room to see if a pair of shoes, that she can't find, was in her room.
She called me in there and said, Mom, what did you turn my room into JoAnne Fabrics? (I felt so bad, she said she was only kidding) The next day, I moved everything in my family room. It's not the same, no privacy.

[lhayes1976]

We have a room over our garage, the back half is our closet and the front is my sewing/craft room. It has a weird angled ceiling that I constantly bang my head on, but I love the space. It's upstairs and out of the way, which is a good thing--because I'm really "messy" when I sew.