Something About Nothing

With the kids gone and empty bedrooms, or sort of empty bedrooms, I decided to take over a second bedroom for my studio.  I decided to make it my sewing room. After moving out the bed and night stands, I brought in the shelving unit I had downstairs filled with fabric, as well as fabric from under the tables in the studio. It is always required to make a mess before you can tidy up! I also bought a second set of shelves and some new bins.  The extra space has given me a spot to have my Folio set up permanently.   Things came together eventually.  And I even left space to hang up a flannel sheet for a design wall.  I'm sure I'll be able to make just as much of a mess in two rooms as I did in one, but now everything really does have it's own space.

When we remodeled the basement we put in lovely cabinets and a desk area for me to use as a sewing room.  The arrangement worked fairly well but the laundry kept getting in my way of sewing or my sewing would get in the way of the laundry.  There wasn't a spare wall to put up a design wall and so when I started my Eclipse quilt I put a flannel sheet up on one of the walls in the family room.  This led to me moving my sewing machine in to the family room, followed by my cutting board, rulers, rotary cutters, thread drawers, and on and on.  I soon learned that I loved being in the family room because of the DVR.  I love being able to watch recorded TV shows while I sew, however my sewing often made the room very messy and difficult for others wanting to watch TV in there (aka - my husband).  After a day of rearranging last week I belive I have found a solution.  I don't have photos of the "before" but here are some "after" shots.