Showing posts with label quilting table. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilting table. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Building love...


Years ago, I had a friend named Ruby.
She had a home with a sewing studio in it.
Her husband built it for her.

It had a "L" shaped counter top large 
enough to cut out patterns and sew on it.
I can remember walking into her studio and thinking...
Wow.
I secretly hoped I could have a sewing room like Ruby's.

In 2009, I set up my first sewing room in a newly
emptied bedroom vacated by "college bound" girls ...

My Bill has enhanced it every so often with little (BIG) things
like a magnetic board for patterns and pictures and my design wall...
He's even fixed little tables to help me 
with the load of those large quilts that have 
hung over my 6 ft. fold up table while I wrestled with them.
Oh...and that sewing machine thingy... last year... (Yes....that WAS BIG)

Wanna walk back with me?

My first little sewing space in my current room...don't you know I was thrilled to have it!!!
That was my brand new Brother Runway model sewing machine I had just gotten for Mother's Day
I really loved the simplicity of it...and the fact that I even had it!
and it then grew to this:

A beautiful design wall...yep...the one hubby did...


Oh...and that sewing thingy I mentioned above...
again...Mr. Bill.



Until finally...I was here.
No complaints. None.


But that man of  mine...








Built me a sewing cabinet last weekend.

It holds all my fabric,
my rulers, thread, and has a space for my cutting mat
and storage for my Go Cutter and dyes.

I will be able to iron on a portion of it...
oh, and of course it has that all important
sewing machine space too. 

It has enough landscape to sandwich any sized quilt...or 
to hold those quilts so I can actually quilt them without
them falling off the sides into the floor almost pulling my 
machine needle with them...


Even though my sewing room is still a mess right now,
and my sewing cabinet still needs paint and stain,
 and I want to add a few little touches...


 I just couldn't wait to
load it all up to see how it would look...
and 
I
  love 
it.




Thursday, October 17, 2013

Things on a list...






I think that everyone growing up had a Christmas "wish list", I know I did...
But when I became a grown up...
I lost that list...did you?
Have you seen yours lately?
 
Well, this week...
I received an unexpected, sweet phone call
that reminded me that I not only should find that list,
but that I should put it up all around me so I could see it!
 
Sound strange? Maybe.
Now that I am officially back in the empty-nester world, 
I think I should drag that list out, dust it off
and remember that everyone should dream!
 
And here's my dream...
 

 
You are looking at the Aussie Sewing Cabinet  by Kangaroo Kabinets in White Ash...


 
Wow...I would have a drawer!!!!

 
 
Just sit and soak that in...will you...
(all puns intended!)
Man.
I know....right???
The cabinet even folds up so when I have company
I can keep little fingers out of danger!
 
 
You see, I have a heavy sewing machine
just sitting on a $35 Wal-Mart folding table...
and don't get me wrong, I am so THANKFUL to have it!
 
 
But I sew slower so I don't bounce my machine onto the floor
and topple myself over in the process!!!
 
Sew there... that is my wish list...
there are only two items on it, but
wishes just the same.
 
 
 
What's on your list?
Inquiring minds want to know...
 
 
Happy Thursday!
 
Lana
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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