Shirley’s Sewing Room

I find that I simply couldn’t do without the use of the sofa with the magnifying lamp in that room. Also a lot of times Duane comes in there to chat and his spot is the single chair in the picture.

I love seeing other sewing rooms.  So I really appreciate Shirley sending these photos of her needlework space.  An avid and accomplished sewist who spends her winters in Arizona and the summers on the lake in Minnesota.  Shirley lives a great life!

Her AZ sewing room is shown here.  Seeing these pictures makes me wish I could see the one in Minnesota.

Heidi has also sent photos of her sewing space.  They will be featured in a later post.  I would love to see more reader sewing rooms.  Just send pictures to me at NCcabin@aol.com.

NOTE:  For reasons I cannot fathom,  Shirley’s text has made it impossible for me to format as I like, with room between the pictures and the text.  Something about copying and pasting her info has given this whole post in a very bad attitude.  Too much time has been spent trying to fix it so I give up.  I hope you can deal with it.

Shirley said:

I didn’t do any cleaning/reorganizing prior to taking the pictures……this is pretty much how it looks when I’m between projects which is where I’m at now.

My Craft Cabinet swivels on a square base and has 4 sides of storage. I love that cabinet and find it is so useful.

 

Shirley teaches hardanger and is very accomplished in this needleart. Click here to see her altar cloth.

 

  Those boxes of thread are for my Hardanger Embroidery classes and sales…..There is DMC and Anchor Perle Cotton is sizes 5,8, & 12 in balls & skeins.

The side that holds the plastic boxes are the kind that scrapbook people use and I store my embroidery thread in them along with other threads, krenik braid, etc.  I like the fact that the thread doesn’t get exposed to light and dust so much that way.

This is a great way to store the embroidery hoops for her Brother Quattro.  So where is your Quattro, Shirley?  I don’t see it in any photos.

        

     

The hanging skeins are Caron Watercolor threads that we use in Hardanger. I find doing that needlework in co-ordinating colors is so fascinating and so I encourage my students to be a little daring in some of their combinations of color, etc.

 

 

      

My friend who built that cabinet for me suggested that I should have another one in the opposite corner of the room where the big round table is. That would be nice except that I hide a lot of things under that table (LOL) and I just kind of like the idea of a flat surface to display things if I want to.

Right now I have quite a few boxes, etc. of things I hope to sell at a garage sale so when they are gone…..I could entertain the thought of another cabinet!  i would certainly have enough things to put into one!!! Having some of my fabric wrapped for easy access would be one good use…..HEY…..that’s an idea…..

 I wish I had the luxury of having everything in one room but since I don’t have that….my cutting table and computer are in another room that we added onto the house several years ago.

The exercise of going between the rooms is an added bonus! I do have a pull-out “bread board type” of shelf that I can pull out from my cupboard for cutting small projects and also the use of the cabinet top when I have that cleaned off.

Shirley is so lucky to have all those cabinets for storage! I wonder what’s in there. Don’t you wonder?

   

The room is entirely too small (WHAT????) but I’ve tried to make the best use of space, which is sometimes a challenge!

Hope you enjoy my sewing room tour……I certainly enjoyed yours!!

Shirley