Can you pinpoint one item that you think would drastically improve your sewing area?
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Can you pinpoint one item that you think would drastically improve your sewing area?
What I am wanting now is a table that holds my sewing machine and has an acrylic (sp?) insert to make everything flush. I saw one on Leah Day's site and now I want one! I really can't afford it now, so I'll probably have to wait and save up for it.
If you or someone you know is a handy person, I've seen some make-do or homemade tables with cutouts, etc. that have worked quite well. If interested, search the web for suggestions or even patterns, or instructions. Some have cut out a section of an existing table and made their own and they are really handy and CHEAP, which leaves more cash for your stash!
I don't have a sewing area of my own. I use the kitchen table. I hate it. I would love even a small sewing table that I could have my machine on and not have to drag it out every time I use it. There are times when I don't sew because of the hassle of dragging everything out. I saw an amazing site where the lady turned a hall closet into a sewing space. I loved the idea. I have a closet in my home that doesn't get used much and I'm thinking I might have to try something like that.
Right now i use a folding 6ft table for my sewing table but I would like to have one that my machine sits in as well!
A good lamp but thankfully i've found an excellent one at a good price
Hey Britt, Does your folding table vibrate very much when you sew on it? I've got a couple and thought I might try setting up a machine on one to see how well it works.
Nope I have not had a problem with the vibration. In fact I don't even notice it but my cats however lol love it! It is their own personal massage! So now when I am sewing they lay on the table it touches cause they can feel it. Might depend on what kind of flooring you have the table on mine is carpet.
Having my daughters stuff out of the garage so I can get the rest of my stuff out and get off of my dining room table. I have the space out there. I'm ready for organization.
This is a great question, Katie. It's really made me think about my sewing room. It's 5' by 10' and I completely love it. It used to be a tiny entryway/porch that's been weatherized, has a window where the door used to be and is right off the kitchen where all the action is in my house. I've been downsizing my fabric stash so almost everything fits in there. I have to put my cutting mat on the kitchen table to use it but that's only three feet away. I will appreciate the space more now that I have thought about this.
Actually what I need is SPACE. I have a very small table that if I put both side flaps up it would be 36". That's my work area. Doesn't make a great surface for trying to make a large quilt. That is one reason I do mostly wall-hangings or child's quilts.
It may not be an item, but I need a larger room. I'm in a really small one right now that is also my computer room.
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Well..... a "BIGGER" Play Room first of ALL.
2nd..... a Good Sewing Table.....or Office Wooden Desk like the one I use to have. :( Snif- Snifff
I recently cleaned up and made space..... And went ahead and opened one of those Big Foldable "COSCO" Tables….
Boyyyyy!.... Now I Know why ~Brit’s~ Cats feel like they are on Cloud “9”....LOL...LOL
My Machine BIBRATES Like Crazy if I go to Fast.
So does the rest of what's on My table! Oyeee-Vayyy!!
I wish I had the space I Use too.
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My sewing room is a combination sewing/computer/craft/gun room. We had to buy a HUGE computer desk because our computer monitor is so big (deep). That takes up one corner and part of the walls. I have 2 computer desk/tables on another wall for my scrapbooking (which I don't do anymore but have so much $$ in I don't know what to do). My sewing machine is on the top of a cabinet that houses my older Singer Touch 'n Sew from the 60s (it is folded down underneath). We have a huge (to my eyes) gun safe for my husband's guns in there as well. The room is PACKED with stuff. So, I guess I would want more space. I would just fill it up, though!!!!
Becki
Becki sell your scrapbooking stuff and buy fabric with it! I no longer scrapbook myself and it is all going lol
Britt, how are you selling your SB stuff? I keep asking my daughter to help me, but it's falling on deaf ears! Don't get me started about my girls. Anyway, I NEED to finish my heritage album while my mother is still around to give me names, etc. She will be 86 next month. However, I've not touched SBing for at least 3 years!!! ARGH! If I got rid of all that stuff, I'd have so much room for my seven (YIKES) machines.Quote:
Originally Posted by brittyboo07
Someone to come in and clean it up after each project would make my sewing room much better! :) Why is it that creating something beautiful makes such a mess?! Once I start going through fabric it looks like a whirlwind went through the room.
I have a lovely planned out sewing room. It was built by a local contractor right after we moved into this house. It is wonderful in every way except that with an ever-growing fabric stash, the three closets in the room are bulging, and I've moved into two other closets and a corner of another room for the stash. I need to clean out some of the stuff! I have several sewing stations, because I do costumes for plays, and often have helpers who need a place to sew. Besides, I don't want to get rid of any of my machines, so they each have their own place. If I had a place to put my treadmill somewhere outside the sewing room, that would make me happier, but I do need it in there to remind me to use it once in a while! Other than some lousy carpeting, it is just working very well. I do have a bedroom downstairs that is only used for guests, and it is big enough for me to put two craft tables together to lay out my quilts to make my sandwiches. This is what I use instead of a design wall. But I have a space for a design wall, just haven't taken the steps to create it, even though it wouldn't be hard to do.
Well, I would like more space but what I have is cozy and I have a window that faces the ocean. So nevermind. My space is good for me. Let's see, a cutting table? Naw, I use the kitchen table in the next room.
I know! To win about $500 in a lottery or something and go fabric shopping! That would make my sewing room better. I'm pretty sure of it. That would probably improve ALL of our sewing rooms.
I'm just sayin...
PS: I bet I could spend more than $500 too...
I would love a design wall. My sewing room doubles as an office for our company and spare guest room (although I'm reluctant to share this room with guests unless its almost an emergency). I would love to br able to have an island that's used for cutting and pressing, but not possible in this space. DH keeps telling me what I need is not more space but less stuff!! That's a man for you.....but gotta love him anyway!!
Nana B I am going to list some of it on craigslist, some on camplesyardsale (local craigslist type site) and at my yard sale this spring.
I have wood floors and if I set my machine up on my folding table it vibrates so much I can't sew.Quote:
Originally Posted by rebeccas-sewing
I need... well not much really, I have all I need to get by.
I want.... that's a whole different story!!!
I have everything I need except an embroidery machine.... My room would look so much prettier with new flooring and a paint job, too!
I have 2 items:
1) a table to drop my sewing machine into for a flat sewing surface for FMQ.
2) more fabric - my stash is pitiful.
I don't know anything about selling on ebay-but I do love to buy from it! I got a huge box of slightly used quilting supplies-cutting mats, rotary cutter, several rulers, pins, and a few do-dads I have *no* idea what they even are.Quote:
Originally Posted by NanaB
Ebay is a good way to get your stuff seen by many mnay many people.
the ONE item that would make my sewing area better is a small portable ironing surface.
I LOVE my table, it does have the acrylic insert so it all sits flush, and I can hide my machine in it and cover the hole to make a cutting table. My serger sits next to the machine so I just turn in my seat to go between the 2 machines- my serger is my workhorse-I use it more than my regular machine. Well not for quilts, but I am new to quilting.
A closet would be nice-my room is a bonus room and just has some wire shelves. And piles and piles and piles and piles and bins and piles on bins of fabric.
I would love to have a larger sewing room but since that is not going to happen maybe a design wall where I could lay out larger quilts.
I need a higher cutting table, I'm tall and bending over a regular height table hurts my back. I have a folding table that I'm going get out of storage and raise up to a better height by putting pieces of PVC pipe on ends of the legs. I want a table to set my sewing machine into.
I would like to heat the basement and turn the whole thing into a sewing area - maybe in time since DH is thinking about taking the garage door off and sealing up the basement. Of course by that time that it actually happens, I would need him to install one of those automatic chair lifts to carry me up and down the stairs to get there - haha.
I do seem to have everything I need right now, time, I guess I would have to add. Time to do nothing but sew.
Hugs,
I know what you mean about the basement Trish. I'm sewing at the dining room table these days instead of firing up the wood stove in the basement for heat.
1. Sewing table where the machine drops in so you are flush with the table and shelves to put stuff on.
I have a pretty cool set up considering the limited space that I have. The only thing that would be better is if I had enough room to have my fabrics organized in the same area as my sewing machine. My machine and some basic needs are downstairs and my fabric stash, templates, and such are upstairs. But I am not complaining. I feel like I'm in heaven now that I don't have to use the kitchen table for my sewing table.
I can't believe no one has said this but I will... my sewing room would be much better with a long arm machine in it. LOL
Actually that won't ever happen, if I had enough money to get a long arm machine I would take a cruise.hehehe!
The thing that came to mind first was my sewing table. I use the dining room table and it is really too high for sewing. I usually find myself with my shoulders tensed up by my ears. : ) I'll need to eventually figure out something else. : )
I just made myself a portable ironing surface. Have a look in Jenny's tutorial.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cat n bull
Actually I'm satisfied with my sewing area. One room and a half (the other half is DH computer/office area).
But like everybody else I need/want 2 things that I'll never have; a long arm quilting machine and a lot more time for organizīng, quilting and sewing.
this is what would make my sewing room so much better. I have been dreaming for one for years. I know that I would use it and get my money worth from it. I also would love a better cutting area/table. I need one where I am not bending my back and that has shelves underneath.Quote:
Originally Posted by Claire Hallman
Mike made me a high cutting table, Myrna, and it's made all the difference! I'm almost 5'8" and my back would really hurt when I cut on my old table. Bed risers would also work for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by MRoy
I am vertically challenged, so a shorter cutting table is what I am dreaming of. I saw some on Pinterest that would be great and they are made with bookshelves, so that would help in the organizing--which is another wish for me. I get somewhat organized and then when I start a project(s) everything is messy again! DH wants me to take over the dining room, and I would love the extra space, but that would cause other problems when we have company and family dinners so I am resisting that idea.