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My own corner of heaven
A.K.A……my studio (work room…place where I hide, create, zone…..whatever you call it). It is the “bonus room” over the garage, so has a lot of square footage on the floor, but less when you stand up. Still, it is a wonderful room. The back end, over the garage doors, is the “guest room,” and houses the antique four-poster hubby inherited from his dad. At first, I didn’t want to share the room with it, but then realized it solved handily the solution of where to store the quilts–under the duvet, of course! (protects the quilts from the cats…)
A lovely woolen “Window” from Frances Caple (my very first piece in my collection, so far still small, of textile art!) hangs on one of the very few bits of flat wall in the room. Going from left to right, you can see the edge of the Hoosier (more in a sec), my sewing machine cabinet, the bed behind it, a rocking chair that is used mostly for dumping stuff and alas not for reading, and some of my collection of quilt and art books. Want more bookcases for the far wall so I can unpack the rest of my “friends!”
If I stand hunched in the corner under Frances’ Window, looking toward the door, I see my design wall (with the red quilt on it–the design wall is 2 inch thick pink insulation wrapped with a flannel sheet, then velcroed to the wood walls…didn’t want nail or screw holes in the wood). On the other tiny bit of vertical wall space I have some etchings…don’t ask me why such a color fiend loves etchings…maybe it is the use of line?
My worktable is the old kitchen / dining table with drop leaf. I built a platform for it out of 3/4″ plywood and added moulding (the kind they use to make the transition from baseboard to floor.. a sort of extended quarter-round) and casters. I made “L” shaped things out of wood which I screwed in place from the bottom. They hold the table on top of the platform and keep it from sliding off…then I added plastic drawers and other bins underneath for storage. When I need a longer space (say for basting a quilt), I just open up the gate-legs and they are suspended in air to hold up the drop leaf.
Here’s “command central,” aka the sewing machine–my wonderful, wonderful, I LOVE it, Janome 6500–and cabinet. Having a large flat surface was about the single best thing I ever did for my quilting! The hoosier has proven to be the perfect sewing storage unit. Patterns fit perfectly in the tin-lined bread drawer. Rotary cutters and scissors are in the knife drawer. Spools of thread nestle (along with other stuff) in the spice rack. On the end are some needlepoint pieces my late Aunt Mary M. made for me when I was a little girl, and I used a leftover piece of the pink insulation board from the design wall for a “bulletin” board near my machine. And, wonder of wonders, I took the antique spool chest I bought back when I had a professional’s income out of the living room to use for…drum roll…..storing thread! My dream is to FILL it!