Stitching the pieces together
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It is quite an optical illusion. DId it play with your eyes while stitching it?
Impressive.
GInger
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No, but my poor family couldn't eat dinner at the dining table for days! I had all the pieces cut and stacked on any flat surface in the order i needed them. No one dare to move even one pile!
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I used to have to take over the dining room for about 10 months of the year. My family knew it was off limits too!
My Aunt made curtains for my cousin out of a diamond printed red and black fabric that she swore gave her multiple migraines while stitching it.
Did anyone have a Sacred Shears rule in their house? I certainly did and still do. I think men just don't get the concept of certain scissors for certain tasks unless it relates to their razor.
I have sewing class this afternoon. One for usage for my particular machine and one for a club for my machine for embroidery. I am not very into embroidery but I certainly need to get back to using my machines after a decade long haitus and now purchase of the latest model. I am not thrilled to learn new features, I am slow at appreciating new technology.
I am getting stalled sorting out my sewing room and getting it fully functional. I am not good at sewing in the midst of chaos, I need it orderly. I still have not foiubnd my shears from our mov, nor have I found my machine needles. If you recall I did not pack, had surgery just before the move and then I did not unpack here either started chemo right away. I reallly want that space to be functional. Confessions here tonight. WOw we could do a show like Taxi Cab confessions. Call it Sewing Room Secrets.
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I have had the Sacred Shear rule all my adult life. BUT, I raised 3 boys and it hasn't been easy.
I have been stalled on my sewing room for a long time. I need some shelves to put all the accessories and trims and such on. As well as a place to put extra fabric. Everyone wants an arm and a leg for shelves that look nice, so there are boxes and bags stacked everywhere! I'd like to get some nice baskets to keep separate projects in on the shelves.
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I forgot about this until you mentioned the three boys. I have twin boys followed 2 1/2 yrs later with alittle brother. Much later along came our daughter. Those boys gave me white hair for sure.
One day son #1 shows me his newly, cut off, jeans. He has my new roller cutter in his hand and proudly says "Don't worry, I cut them outside on the side walk!" He was so proud of himself for not ruining the dining room table. It felt like he had just written "I love Mommy" on the wall. How can you really get mad.
Ginger
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Gingerbrew, great story. You can't get mad at that!
I also have the sacred scissors rule. Everyone seems to understand. I'm so silly about ,y scissors that I have a pair just for silk fabrics, another for heavy weight wools, the light weight cloth pair, the fabric but don't care about scissors, and the favorite quilting scissors. Then there's the thread snips......ad infinitum.
Funny you both mention getting organized. We're in the process of having the garage rebuilt in to a quilt space for me. I've wanted this for years but DH couldn't face the clean up job needed. This was actually his suggestion and it's taken us a month to get the whole place unloaded. It was my "secondary storage" and his overflow workshop items along with.....26 years of accumulation. I guess Breast Cancer perhaps can have a silver lining as I don't think I'd ever have convinced him to do this otherwise!
Ginger, I hope you enjoyed your classes today. I also have a embroidery machine I don't use for embroidery and it's great for some things but wants to jam when I use it for quilting. I need to go in for instruction or something.0 -
That's funny Ginger, you really couldn't be mad.
I like your array of scissors, MostlySew. I have one of the drawers, in my sewing machine cabinet, full of a variety of cutting implements. Everyone knows that they stay out of that drawer. I have other scissors that can be used for anything without consequencesand have placed them in different drawers in the house for convenience.
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Me too with the handy scissors for any other task!
My class was great because I actually understood the directions and was able to do the programming and did it all correctly!!!!!!!!!! My fog is lifting more and more,thank you God! Often I have been like a semi comatose participant andnow I felt like a normal person. Well a normal person that got tired before the others. but normal.
I am hopeful my sewing room will be more functional soon. I need help in there because I can't pick up the boxes that have my sewing stuff in them to get them unloaded. It is a long room over a huge three car garage that must have been built for a family that did lots of repairs and there is even depth where you could put another car. So in my swing room, my husband ignored my signs and the movers put a ton of overflow boxes in there along one long wall. My boxes are in this area too so It can be so hard to get stuff out.
I still don't know where my sewing shears are or my machine needles. Because I got BC amonth before we moved, had surgery, moved right after and started chemo out here. I did not pack, I did not unpack. Imagine all of your stiff was packed and moved without culling. Just about every thing got moved. I really want this to be a nice sewing room, I have all the stuff it just needs to get where it needs to live. I even bought an overstuffed rocking chair for in there. I love the idea, now I need to get it to be reality.
Love you all, sewing women are the best!
Ginger
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Ginger,
Glad you enjoyed the class and your room sounds divine. So large....wonderful. Don't push yourself too hard on the unloading. This should be the fun part.
I plan on having my 14' wall filled floor to ceiling with 16" deep by about 10" high and various widths storage compartments for yardage, and yarns and rug hooking etc. in front of this I will have floor to ceiling sliding doors made from homosote and covered with flannel. I can close the storage off, and use the sliding doors as a design wall or quilt display. I can't wait for that! I'm also creating a 6' x 4' work table using those wire basket units, 4 to a side. I'm tall and it is just the right height for me. I have 4 of the drawers now and they're wonderful for organizing fabric.
So far, my plans are wonderful on paper....now to try to make them reality!0 -
That sound wonderful, MostlySew. I cannot find the shelving material that has the predriled holes for shelves so I can make the shelves to fit axactly in the space I have. I was looking on Friday and think I might buy some kits for shelves and cut them down to size. I have been thinking about suspending the shelves about 16" from the floor and having baskets that will fit under them. That way I can still vacuum under them.
I went to a yard sale last weekend and found (along with the quilt book) a shoe organizer for a closet. I already have one in my sewingroom closet that I store fabrics in. This one is narrower and I am using it to organize the fabrics for my crazy quilt.
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I worked in the sewing room for about 30 minutes yesterday. Not nearly enough!
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I plan on working on the sewingroom again this afternoon. I need to get it organized so it's fun to work in again.
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Meece, I do hope you enjoyed your afternoon in the sewing room sounds like a great afternoon to me. I just spent 2 days taking a traditional rug hooking class with 9 friends. Fun, but tiring.
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Bummer, I spent over 5 hours cleaning in the garage and then inside to do laundry, so no work in the sewing room. Soon though, very soon!!!
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Meece, I have a problem getting up into my sewing room becausr there are other things I need to do. So what is wrong with me that I leave the thing I want to do to last. I am not even talking about working on a project, just unpacking some more things, getting things in order so that I can sew. Why do I amnd somany other women do this to ourselves. Why are we last. Go shopping with the family, get everyone elses things first and then everyone is too tired and hungry or whatever to look at what we want to look at.
Just venting.
Love Ginger
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Wow, I really never looked at it that way. You are so right. DH was the one who had asked me to work in the garage with him, then he ended up leaving and going outside to work in the yard, and I stayed in the garage. Hmmmmm
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I am obviously a trouble maker,
Ginger
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Ginger,
I've recently been having just the same thoughts! I "save" my sewing until the afternoons as it seems too decadent to sit and sew all day when I can look around at things which need to be done. Then it seems the afternoon time doesnt actually materialize. I think I'm going to try to change that and treat sewing as a "job" at least one day/week. After all, the dust and weeds will certainly wait.0 -
I have four packed, labeled, all set to go boxes of returns to a store. This will remove one barrier to my sewing.
I love the feeling I have in my sewing room even though it is not all organized yet. Most of my favorite things are up there. Memories, sewing books, tools, art supplies. my machete, my little doll collection, doll furniture, cabinets for them, shelves and a wall of unpacked boxes that contain more of my tools. My grandma's sewing machine, treadle of course.Photos, cd's of music I like. My very own music that no one in my fmaily likes but me. Worship music, old folk music, 50's 60's music, musical theatre albums which my DD also likes. My old monitor with the pearl bridal trim glued to its face. My box labeled Glitz. My dress I wore for NewYears in 1965 with the maribou feather trim on the skirt. I could wear it on one arm now. I love this stuff.
So why do I deny myself being with it. We need to answer this one so we can go enjoy our stuff! Collectively, all of us. Do I somehow have expectations of myself about projects I may or may not do? I don't in reality. I have no plans to do anything above my skill level. My art supplies are another matter, I am a little , alot afraid of them. I don't really know how to use them properly. I have a book that tells about techinque but beyond that I may find I have no talent t all.
Enough confessional for the night. I must be getting better in general to even be considering these things. I haven't thought of things like this in ten years. I suppose it is good but it will have to level out soon so I can go forward. I am not a big fan of soul searching yet here I find myself doing it. Hm.
Love you all, Ginger
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I know about not making time for us to sew. I do like that my quilting guild has two Wednesdays a month set aside for 'sew bee' day where we can take our current quilting project to our guild meeting room and sit and sew for several hours (usually from 9 - 2) undisturbed (unless our cell phones ring). By going to the guild room, you don't see all the stuff at the house that you need to do and you can concentrate on your sewing. You also have an opportunity to help others or ask for help on a challenging block. Unfortunately I started working a month ago and can't attend the sew bee days any more, unless I take a 'mental health' day. I had planned on making my batik quilt on the sew bee days, and I only got 2 blocks of 72 made
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So yesterday I made a snail trail block. I was so excited because it was the first time I have ever done that block. I get it all done and it just doesnt look right. I look closer and noticed that one of the light starter square blocks was wrongside out. *head slap* I cut out another one and will sew it right today.
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I can say this, but to do it would be a whole 'nuther thing....You could leave it just the way it is and do the rest of the quilt with scrutiny. Having a "flaw" in a quilt can sometimes bring interest to an otherwise repetitive pattern.
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I believe in flaws. I plan them. They are the best part of my quilts. No head claps for me, just lots of patting on the shoulder. Leave it the way it is. Applause is in order!
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The Sew Bee day sounds great as do the intentional errors in a quilt.
Ginger
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Well, I've made time to quilt these last several days and have finished the ditch stitching on this quilt. Now my problem is thread colors. The backing is black, and the front needs to be quilted with white thread....od course! Anyone have any hints? No matter what I do, I'm getting either white on the black or what appears to be black on the white. Probably it's related to my free motion technique which isn't the strongest, but this is NOT adding to it. Thanks,
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I would rather have white on the black. I think that black on the white on the front of the quilt might be distracting ot the quilt pattern. JMHO
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Meece, thanks, I agree. I'm currently thinking I'll channel quilt the white parts so I can control the thread issues, and then something more elaborate in the scrappy fabric part so it won't show (as much)
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Ditto on the quilt/craft room! I've been in this house for just over 18 months. I've been off work for almost 10 months. I haven't touched my room! It became a dumping ground when we moved, cleaned it up and then we had floors done (hard floors in there). Then it became a dumping ground again. It has never been used as a craft room! It's a big room at the front of the house and gets great light. What am I afraid of? I've brought projects to the diningroom table a number of times, so I'm still okay in confidence. So what gives?
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I moved here six years ago this month. Like you, Barbe, my room is in the front of the house with the best lighting of any of my rooms, but it is the dumping ground of choice, I am just frustrated that I don't have the furnishings such as shelves to put things on. I have a hope chest, a tv stand my sewing machine table and one very small night stand. No storage in any of it. I have painted some spots of color on one wall to try and decide what color to use, but have yet to paint the room. Every other room in the house is complete and painted. I am like you Barbe, what gives?
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If you finished it, you'd be required to work in it. I have the same problem with my scrapbooking room.
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