My Sewing Room This Week

93 responses to “My Sewing Room This Week”

1. I think a lot of quilters have rooms that look just like yours! Mine happens to be completely empty right now as I am in the process of revamping the space….wish me luck!

2. Lori, yours looks a lot neater than mine. 🙂 I wonder if there are many of us who have a messy storage half and a neater work spàce?

3. I would feel right at home in your sewing room. It looks lovely and cheerful. Your little bit of clutter doesn’t bother me one bit Lori x

4. Looks just like my place! 🙂

5. Oh, Lori, I am so thankful you showed us this! Your room looks like a place where a lot is happening. I love to have my room all tidy but it just can’t be all the time. Sometimes I feel so guilty about that but if I am going to be constantly cleaning up I’ll never get any sewing done. I am so thankful I’m not the only one! Sometimes on blogs people can appear to have a “perfect life” or a “perfect room” or a perfect whatever. This is a reminder that we are all human! I love your room!

6. Not so bad. Looks a lot like mine. But we seem to still get lots done and I know exactly which pile holds what

7. Lori, your room looks like a well-organized chaos compared to my studio. I’m too ashamed to post my photos. And, yes, I think we would all rather spend the money on fabrics versus “proper”bookcases and shelves.
   Love your blog! Looking forward to more inspiration.

8. I thought organized chaos was a sign of creative intelligence……Please don’t change a thing!

9. Your sewing room isn’t as bad as mine. LOL No, I wouldn’t want to share a picture. LOL

10. Love it! I can tell you are a very creative, multi-tasking, productive, fun loving, energetic quilting artist!

11. There’s no way I’d show you a picture of my sewing room at the moment! Yours is clean compared to mine!

12. Looks perfectly normal to me!!

13. Your sewing room is wonderful, it shows me there’s a lot of creativity going on in there by a terrific quilter!

14. Good morning Lori. Seeing your photos confirms that you’re normal, like the rest of us quilters and sewers. We’re beautiful mess-makers, and out of the chaos comes wonderful art, what could be more joyous than that?

15. LOVE your sewing space Lori! I try to keep mine somewhat organized, but it seems when it’s clean, I don’t get any inspiration! The coloured fabric piled here and there, the scraps, the thread, etc. inspires wonderful colour combinations and I’m off cutting and shoving stuff out of the way LOL. My storage is NOT matched either…all comes from yard sales and ingenuity of what’s in hubby’s junk stash that will work to solve my current “problem”. I’d love to have everything match, but yes, I’d rather buy fabric or thread :-). And, I also cut paper with my good rotary cutter the other day! Couldn’t find my paper cutting one!!

16. I somettimes…most of the time,…only have a few minutes to spend in my sewing room. When I can carve an hour or more there I dont spend it cleaning until I cant function then I will quick clean until even that wont do it and I am forced to dig in….it is close to that way now :0)

17. A creative mind has to have space to think….and create!

18. Hi Lori, Him Indoors has just put together a whole wall of units which I have wanted for ages and now I miss the space on the wall for displaying my bits and pieces! It’s a true saying, “be careful what you wish for” lol. Organized chaos gives your brain a workout remembering when you last seen something?. Anna

19. This looks completely normal! 😀

20. It looks organized to me. It seems that everything has a place. I am in the process of moving so I can’t share a pic of my space, but it is my intention to find a way to keep everything hidden behind doors when I am not using them whether it be a closet door or cabinet doors! I think that will make me feel like I am in control.

21. Looks like my space, loved that you shared.

22. I love your courage,it’s true we all tend to think the grass is greener (the room neat as a pin) like the picture. I love that I have a room that can have it’s door shut. For 26 yrs I sewed on the dining room table. Iron,machine and supplies all had to be hidden away for family meals. The room means freedom to sew when even a 15 minute window opens.Thanks for sharing.

23. With your hectic schedule, I’m surprised you could keep it THIS neat! I’m constantly moving stuff around with several projects going on at the same time. I can no longer get even a piece of paper in my once-neat closet! Time for spring cleaning here.

24. Your sewing room looks like you are a very prolific sewer/quilter. If it were totally organized and nothing out of place, I’d wonder about you and if you ever did anything. Welcome to the club of creative sewers with well used sewing rooms.

25. I’m So glad you didn’t say kitchen LOL! Snow storm, hubby gone = me in the sewing room all day. ?

    1. Lucky YOU! How are the “twinkies”?

26. I think it is impossible to sew in a clean room. When I cleaned mine a while ago I spent more time searching for things than when hubby said it was a mess!!!

27. Wow, you even wall art. Impressive. I have a huge window to stare at the ocean for the “long gaze” to rest my eyes. Another one to view the forest. The third has a cupboard with mirrored fronts, and the fourth has a mass of mess in hanging form … rulers, racks, cutters, scissors, etc. My thread lives in boxes on the windowsills … no hanging space. My fabrics live in boxes in a cubby. The table surfaces have projects ongoing, dead but not buried, proposed but not begun awaiting their turn. Will I share a picture … Hell no! ?

    1. You have amazing views! How lovely for you!

       1. It never gets old. It’s lovely to quilt with these amazing views of nature right outside my windows. Sailboats going by, deer trotting under my window eating my daffodils and hostas. As you know, we don’t own the views, we just get to share them for a period of time. I’m making the most of my share.

28. I have a wall of kitchen cabinets in my sewing room…still can’t keep it uncluttered! Lol! Love the two quilts on the wall above the shelves. Is there a pattern for those?

    1. Yes…I will look up the book and share this week…(as you can see, my sewing room isn’t very organized for finding things–LOL!)

29. Like us? Our sewing rooms MUST be a work-in-progress! Must! Organized chaos ~ it’s a way of life. LOL ***smiles***

30. I laugh at your, “don’t judge” comment. All of us who have sewing rooms have had it looking like yours or worse. My room is small, so keeping it organized it really a must, but alas, clutter happens! I am just thankful that I’m not sewing on the kitchen table anymore!

31. Thank you! I have a small house and the whole thing has become my sewing room. I had to get a small table and put it in the old wash room so I’d have a place to eat after the fabric and sewing machine took over the regular dining room table and area. Love

    1. Love that you had to buy a small table to eat!! Lol!

32. It’s beautiful and perfect. I wouldn’t change a thing.

33. Would I show you my quilting space today? In a word—NO…..your’s looks neat and tidy in comparison.

34. Walking into a sewing room like yours is my idea of “getting away from it all”. Let the dreams and creativity begin – let the world stay away for a while. Though I’m terrible at posting on Instagram, I directed a photo to you (where DO you add the hashtags?!) of a glimpse of my room – which is currently being repaired from water damage due to heavy rain. But it’s okay as California needs the water!

35. LOL, I still have about a dozen small boxes in the sewing room that are full of things I’ve not unpacked since moving in to the condo…four and a half years ago. My actual sewing area is fairly organized. Well, as much as it can be given I’m working on several things at once. It helps that I hate to dust around little stuff, so the thread is all in organizer cases in the closet (cotton) or in a library card catalog cabinet (embroidery thread), the fabric in drawer sets in the closet.

36. Gotta admit I’ve got what too many partial projects spread around. Glad to hear I’m not alone. Sadly my space includes piles of office paperwork too!

37. I will post mine on Instagram. Your work space looks marvelous.
    It looks bright and a lot like mine. Lots of things going on.
    Mine is the same.
    I have extra storage upstairs for stuff I am not actively using. My sewing “office” is right next to my cooking “office” so that makes like pretty sweet.

38. Looks a lot like mine, only I have all that stuff in 1/4 the space. No judgement here.
    Look back at that photo during your Christmas rush sewing time. You will think your space was neat and tidy in comparison.

39. I love your sewing studio–I can’t walk in mine so much stuff

40. I love the look of your room! Bright and cheery colors – wouldn’t change a thing.
    I have a friend who calls her room, “The Room of good intentions” (it has her treadmill in it). But it does make me rethink my space which is filled with boxes of unfinished projects – I do recall your project of listing those and identifying which ones are cluttering our creativity – I think I need to revisit that process. And if you mentioned pictures of closets in that room – well, let’s just not go there!
    Happy Spring.

41. Pat has a good point. If I can put my hands on a piece of fabric I want, I’m happy. But that is not the case now.

42. Whoo-Hoo For YOU! My quilting space is just like yours. Every time I clean up my
    quilting room, I forget where I tucked this and that. Re-organizing? When I do that I can’t find what I need while working on a big project. I have labels on a lot of the small drawers which helps. My theory follows: I’m 75 years young and I learned that quilting fabrics and supplies “will never see a clean room” Clean lasts for about a week! My dear girl no apologies are needed for your sewing room. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Progress counts more than cleaning. Quilters know when it is time to sweep the surfaces before a new quilt is born. It could happen in a week, a month, a year. Congratulations you are in the same boat as a million quilters! Love your site.

43. Thank You, Thank You for showing us a REAL: sewing room. I ‘ve always been told that rooms that are “fluffed up” have the mind of a “Creative Person” working in them.

    1. It makes me feel good that I am not alone. You must be doing something right. I am looking forward to your new class coming out .
       A few weeks ago there was a post about the pictures on this site being extra small. I am having the same problem. This just started a few weeks ago. Have you had other people mention this? I am using my IPad.

44. Yep. I would feel right at home. As long as I know where things are the mess is a sign of creativity going on.

45. Thanks for not tidying-up beforehand… looking at sewing rooms with works in progress is my kinda eye-candy! It gives me ideas for my own work space.
    Do you have a design wall? I have 2 – for compulsive multi-tasking. 🙂

46. looks better than mine

47. lori, don’t sweat the small things, a messy sewing room means that you have one to mess up and you can just walk in a begin loving what you’re doing at the moment, without it , you’d first have to clear a space somewhere, lug in all the stuff, including the machine, and set it all up and only then, if you’re lucky and noone else wants the space can you begin to start what you love doing.
    enjoy the clutter,
    shoshana

48. I’m sooooo glad to see that a “professional’s” quilt space looks like mine. Obviously you are able to be creative in your space, so it works for you. That is all that matters.

    Every time I see those lovely pictures in the magazines I feel inferior. I have to remind myself that I am fortunate to have a bedroom devoted to my love of quilting, and even if all my furniture is used office furniture it works. However, I am untidy and have more than one (two, three, four….) projects going at the same time. I started to reorganize and it looks like a mess, but am hoping to have a more useful space once I’m done. Same size, same furniture more useful – hope, hope.

49. Lori, it looks like you can still walk in most of the room without taking careful planned steps. By my standards it’s quite neat and definitely used..

50. Thanks for sharing your sewing room. It sure made me feel “normal” and from the comments it seems we are almost all on the same page. I often wonder what the rooms/houses in home dec. magazines look like before the photographer and her team arrive to stage the homes. Don’t change a thing – and then we won’t feel like we have to either!