Oh my goodness, we haven't been on here in awhile...but if you have been in the store lately you know why! Its been busy! But we love seeing all of you so often. We are so inspired by all the beautiful quilts that have been coming into the shop lately.
Customers and students often ask me, "How do you do it all, work full-time and still find time to get so many quilts made?" Well, I am not sure exactly how I do it, except that I do stay up late sewing quite often. Here is a peek into my sewing space and as you can see a great way to do double duty--get one machine embroidering away while sewing on another one. And don't ever feel guilty about owning more than one sewing machine! (Many of you probably have more than one television in your home... right?) And note what I use my laundry basket for, not laundry, but sorting fabric! This is after I had already sorted and put away most of it. I do clean up now and then, but only while the embroidery machine is stitching! Always multi-tasking, but in a fun way. Stitch away, and come see us soon!
Karen
2 comments:
You have a dedicated sewing room, Karen? I'm SO jealous, laundry basket sorting system nothwithstanding.
Currently, I use our 2 upstairs spare room dressers to store fabrics, some large plastic bins on the spare room bed to hold patterns, notions, fusible interfacings, etc. And scattered cardboard boxes on the spare room floor to hold books plus other craft supplies, also in the spare room. And since there's already so much furniture, boxes, etc in the spare room, my sewing machine is downstairs!
But at least my sewing machine is set up and ready to run at all times. I think that's probably the biggest factor in finding the time to sew, especially with young children in the house. If the machine is ready to go, I can jump on it whenever I have a spare couple of minutes. --Kim
Karen, I enjoye the photos of your sewing room. It's interesting to see how folks set up their space.
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