And I ended up with this, but I didn't stop there!

Check in later this week for the big finish! :)

And what's in my drawers you ask? The rest of my stash of course! Every drawer contains its own colour:


Or kind of fabric (in this case, tulle and mesh); and in one drawer I have oddments like blocks that never got incorporated into anything, or sketch quilts that haven't actually been quilted yet.


                                  

Under the table is this little basketry/shelving contraption which contains all of my dyeing things:




Like the above - each shelf has it's own thing.





And from this angle, you can see my design wall and my Judy. If you look to the left of the photo, you can also see peeking out where my rolls of steam-a-seam, stitch witchery, stabilizer, pellon and fusible interfacing live, and my iron is tucked in there too.



and that's my perfect-for-me sewing room!  It's not quite finished yet - I need to add some more lighting above the thread wall, the drafting table and the design wall - it's purchased but not yet installed; and I need to make a new ironing pad as I killed my last one when I was doing all of that transfer paint/disperse dye work in November. (I also killed my tables - the heat actually cracked and split the melanmine surface, so I had to buy new ones!)

But I figured it was close enough to bright to show it to you. Maybe it'll give you some ideas for your sewing room too!

Hope you'll come by and visit some time! Maybe this weekend. :)

As most of you probably know, I am one of the contributors to a technique-teaching group surface design blog called "And Then We Set It On Fire"

            
This month, we have a guest artist/teacher, Rayna Gillman, and the work we're doing as a group is based on techniques in her book called "Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts".
I started with some blocks I received from a birthday block exchange I was involved in a couple of years ago.  I had requested blue or purple stars and received mostly blue AND purple stars.  In retrospect, I should have requested black and white stars and I would have had blocks I could actually make a quilt out of - live and learn, as they say!

However, they were perfect for the purposes of this month's technique - as there was very little I could do with them on their own.  Just sliced up and rearranged is already a great improvement!

Stay tuned...

My sewing room is finished! And I have a queen sized top to prove it!



P.S. - It's on its side, cuz my garden wall isn't tall enough for it and my design wall (skippy dance) isn't big enough for it. :)

Long time no see! :)

I have recovered well from my first surgery, so have been slowly but surely been back at the work of putting my sewing room back together.


I'm in the home stretch now, and hope to actually get some work done before my next surgery.  In the meantime, the wall of thread has gone up, and so has my very first design wall.  New lighting is next, the tables will be put together, the last of the furniture painting will be completed - and then it'll be done!

Stay tuned...

Gee, 4 days in and 2012 has already become WAY more interesting in ways I didn't expect.

First of all, I haven't spent any of my 2 week vacation in my sewing room because the renovation sputtered nearly completely to a stop.  Here's where we are right now:


The laminate floor is down, the walls are painted (two coats of primer, one coat of paint), four of my Ikea dressers are painted (two coats of primer one coat of paint) and they're filled with scraps, one colour per drawer. Also take note of my new T.V. - a Christmas present from BSP! :) Seems like good progress.. but note to your left - those sets of drawers aren't even primed yet. So are not FILLED yet, neither are my books all on their shelves...

But wait, there's more!




Four (actually six) of these bins are filled with yardage - but there are ten more to be done.



This little corner for my paints and assorted surface design stuff looks great - except that most of those bins are empty - and their contents are still in boxes.

To add insult to injury, I've been quite ill. On December 23, I went to see my doc because a cyst I had on my shoulder for ten years became infected.  I was given some antibiotics and an appointment to have the cyst removed (tomorrow).  In the meantime, I developed an abcess on my gum, and a sinus infection - so I am literally filled with infection - leaving me headachy - nauseated, and exhausted.

And AFTER Christmas I had an ultrasound and two appointments with my gynecologist, who informed me that the remaining bits I have since my partial hysterectomy 3 years ago have prolapsed (quite painful, btw!) and you guessed it - one of my ovaries has an infected cyst on it!!! So in February, it's all going to come out. MORE surgery, hurray!

The result of all that is that I've been lying around in bed, running fevers, feeling crappy and moaning for ten days (poor BSP!) - with NOTHING going on in my sewing room.




However, Maggie-May has been faithfully keeping me company - here she is lying in my lap (where she'd been for about two hours) just before I started this post. So the news isn't ALL bad. ;)

So I'll see you post cyst surgery - and in the meantime, sew, quilt, or paint a line or two for me, will you?

Cheers,