Finished Sewing Room!

 Well, ALMOST completed sewing room. After putting in the IKEA desk and drawer unit plus the Pressing Cart, I decided I needed to upgrade my file cabinet. So I spent time cleaning out and organizing files...files of wholesale vendors and SAGA information. Then there were the files of projects, patterns instructions, articles and general ephemera of doing what I do. Out went two grocery bags of paper to the recycling bin. Whew! Never knew I had that much "junk" in those files! Here's the area with the old filing cabinet behind the door...filled with rolls of fabric, dolls, rack of doll clothing and a ribbon holder somewhere underneath. It's crowded in my small room but the new Alex cabinet will make it neater and better organized.

The need to clean out was two-fold: the drawer/file unit I bought from Ikea has only one file drawer and three drawers. And the files badly needed an upgrade of organization. The ALEX drawer unit matches my other wider unit next to my Ikea desk. It blends and looks like I had a professional decorator design the room. 

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Putting the unit together was easy...

Count out the parts and get ready to put it together.

Put the outside box together.

Build the three top drawers and secure to inside drawer rails.

Finished file drawer is ready for securing to side rails. 

But moving the files from the old cabinet to new was another matter! 

I threw out more old vendor catalogs, files, file folders....

But the new cabinet is finished, filled and ready for more organized work!

It's much better now. I think I'm finally done with "remodeling" my wonderful sewing room haven!

Another Gorgeous Sewing Room

When I travel the country to teach I get to stay with wonderful fellow sewers and stitchers. My hosts are always gracious, kind and give me lots of inspiration when I get to see where they create. While in Texas I stayed with Wendy, the president of the Lone Star Smockers, a Texas chapter of SAGA. Talk about a sewing room.......She has a wonderful, large space to spread out in after living in a house that only allowed her limited sewing space. Here are some photos of her great sewing room:

I love this arrangement on a shelf. The lace wound bobbins are so cute, and just as she bought them. The needle case goes perfectly with them, and I love the sheep on the right!




This ornament tree displays all hand made ones. Some of them her sister made out of beads

Talk about a notions wall!! It would be so easy to find the needed notion with this arrangement....I wish I had enough wall space to do this.

And look at this wonderful built-in. There are fabrics carefully folded on the comic book card boards (acid free, of course), books artfully arranged and organized, "pretties" and so much more.

What inspiration did I get from seeing this lovely room? I've ordered a wall spool rack (to arrive soon), a doll dress rack for my 18" doll clothing samples that are currently just laying around on my file cabinet, and I think a little straightening and re-organizing is in order!  Thank you, Wendy, for sharing your beautiful sewing room with me!