A Studio Is Born!!

Inspiration must have struck while I was asleep, as I woke up with a wild hair itching to rearrange my room.

Stuck?? STUCK??

New Home for my 6600. Much more logical place!!

Now I can actually get to my design wall and see what I am doing.

My adjustable table had to be re-situated. Easier access for cutting without being in the entrance to the room. And while the 11000 doesn't have a view, most of the time you walk away from it as it is stitching.

Shelves & Frame. For storage purposes, the iron and the frame are pushed all the way back. But with minor adjustments, a top can be quilted on the frame here in this area. And, since I have to pay close attention to what I am doing, the view isn't as important for this machine.

Lee Ann suggested this arrangement, but for some reason I had it in my head that the frame was 14 feet long. I am glad that this works!

My new view as I sit at my 6600. Most of my piecing is done on this machine. I love having this inspiring view. (Hmmmm, about that art quilt ...)


!!Voila!! A Studio is born!! (Now, where are my Bayer Back & Body pills??)

Tragedy Struck

A couple days ago, I came into my (sewing) room to find that tragedy had struck: Several of my shelves had fallen. I guess the weight of my quilting books was too much for the L-shaped brackets that were supporting them. So, off came everything to be sorted and rearranged. The shelves were redone w/different (straight) supporting brackets. Nothing like being forced into redoing and organizing. :-)

Then I cataloged each and every book, and arranged them alphabetically by author (by title within each author as well) and re-shelved them with a better redistribution of weight per shelf. (Can you see my Todd Library experience here?)



Material came next. This was more difficult as there isn't a hard & fast rule. Some are by color, some by design, some by type, some by size.





What a mess. Under all this is an ironing board and my adjustable table w/my Janome 11000.



My 1600 & frame is more of a material stand.



I also cataloged (yes, I truly have a program for this!!) all my patterns & kits to store them on the shelves. I may be ADD, but that doesn't prevent me from being anal about my sewing!!



This is my cubbie with my Janome 6600. I don't like facing the wall as it is uninspiring. The next day, after all the sorting was completed, I loaded some design programs and spent quality time on the phone upgrading my digitizing program. This saved a lot of money and I went to bed pretty pleased with myself!! (And, I might add, made my husband very pleased as well!!)
I had every intention of waking up yesterday and teaching myself the new program ...

As Promised

As promised, here is the completed look. Larry did pretty well with getting everything back in its place. Except for the sound. (A little minor thing!!) So, we had to call in an expert who fixed it right up.

Isn't it pretty?