Heidi’s sewing room is neat, orderly and clearly the sewing space of a serious stitcher. There are so many interesting and useful things to see here. Thanks, Heidi, for sharing–and welcome back to the smocking and sewing sisterhood!
This is what she had to say:
I have to preface these pictures before you look at them. I’m 3 years retired and got back to sewing and joined a smocking guild when I retired. I hadn’t smocked for 25+ years while work consumed my life. Now retired, I sew, smock and craft for fun only. ( Ed. note:  HURRAH!!!)
So this is where Heidi sews.
It looks like a serger sits on that gorgeous antique Singer cabinet.
This picture shows my favorite tools (& organizing tools) that I love.
Isn’t that machine needle catalogue system wonderful? Notice the gorgeous tussie-mussie pincushion and pattern weights Heidi made.
My lazy susan thingie holds most of my tools. A fishing tackle box holds my extra sewing machine feet. I made my own pattern weights with leftover brightly colored fleece and shotgun lead pellets. (I positively dislike anything to do with guns, but my brother had the lead pellets that work so great.) I also received the pincushion in a ” tussie– mussie” that I absolutely love.
The shelf under the ironing board is so helpful. I have one on my own ironing board and love it.
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As you can see, most of the mess is in plastic bins behind the closet doors, but the frequently used stuff is on the exposed wire rack.
Magazines, patterns, etc are nicely hidden when I’m not searching for a particular piece of fabric. A “few” other bins of fabric have been banished to the basement as I cannot store them in my tiny room.
I dare not get into quilting as it is a whole other type of fabric that I don’t have room for in my tiny room. I have broken down and bought a quilt kit a year ago and used the remnants to make a crib quilt for our new grand-daughter.
The texts read: (1) My husband let’s me have all the fabric I can hide. (2) A creative mess is better than tidy idleness. (3) So much fabric, so little time. (4) I’m a material girl.
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The wall hanging was made by yours truly as an inspirational wall hanging.
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I have followed your blog for a few years now through Feedly and spend hours on Pinterest.
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Many thanks for your inspirational ideas and the photographs are not great, but you get the idea…. and I can see the floor now that I did a recent cleanup looking for just the right piece of fabric that I knew I had somewhere.
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Take care and it did take me some time to find your older blog posts because your email address as it is not in the “about” section. NOTE: It is now. Thanks for pointing this out, Heidi.
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