Who encouraged me to take a spare bedroom as a sewing room?

[rebeccas-sewing]

Way to go, Cyndi! There's no turning back now, and after you've been using that room for a while you'll know I'm right.

[cyndiofthevortex]

I now have a much larger, sunnier and beautiful new sewing room in my son's old bedroom! Sandy Navas sent me a great book on organizing "Dream Sewing Spaces" for large and small rooms. I am getting so many ideas from this book! Thank you, Sandy!

I'm at the point now of trying to find room for those odds and ends that I used to have stuck here and there - patterns I might someday want to use, old notebooks with maybe one or two ideas in them that I want to keep, knitting items that I will probably never use, etc, but I want to keep this room organized so I don't want to stick them all over the room. I'm keeping my thinking cap on while I continue to set things up.

Yesterday DH and I went out to buy some lightweight insulation to make a small portable design wall. Martha of quilter.martha fame here on the forum gave me the idea. She has hers on the wall, as most people do, but I mostly work on small wallhangings and do not need to take up a whole wall. I'm lining it with flannel tonight with the help of DH so it will be good to go tomorrow! I have four wallhangings bumping around in my head, so watch out world! Here comes one motivated chickadee!

[Granny Fran]

Oh, Cindi, your room sounds wonderful. I went from a small space in laundry area (8 x 10) to a spare room when DH made me a quilt frame too large to fit there (frame is 10 feet long !!). When the basement flooded last winter and was refinished, I moved there. DH set it up as a man-cave, but didn't use it that much. He was a big help setting me up with my first design wall and lots of shelving. My only drawback is the drop ceiling lighting. I could use more, so this weekend I went to Joann' s with coupons and got an Ott Lite. Love it already.

Enjoy your space. I now have enough room if anyone wants to join me here.