Shelly’s Journal

When my darling husband was on nightshift, this is where I spent my creative time:

This picture is taken during the day coincidentally instead of the dead of night. You can see the piles of projects on the table. The white chair to the left also has a pile of project wannabes on it. My sewing apron is readily available. The big denim bag on the chair has all of my random rulers and shapes. Behind the sewing machine is my Peanut Butter Jar full of scissors. To the right, are notions and what nots - and my big sewing basket. The small white dresser is jam packed full of fabric and is the bulk of my stash. Inside my closet, I have a shelf of fabric - mostly fleece, a small black drawer set with patterns and some flannels, a pile of interfacing and fleece, along with some bags of battiing, cardboard pieces and other random sewing stuff.

Now, this is where we are at:

The table is in mid use here as I’m piecing the blanket top that was on the far left back corner of the sewing table in picture one. The little black drawer set to the right came out of the closet and holds my active notions and feet, needles, some fabric for current projects. When it’s not in use for sewing, it faces the wall to keep little hands out. During the day, the sewing machine is covered and pushed to the back of the table, along with a few current projects and my extension table. The sewing table becomes a runway for cars - see big bin lower left. I have scissors stored in a filing cabinet not shown in the picture. Our server in the kitchen has my sewing box and other notions along with the project wannabes from the white chair in the previous photo. Our everything closet in the kitchen has my interfacing in it. (Note: Kitchen door is to the right of the black drawers.) Most fabric is still upstairs, but I’ve rearranged things to accommodate my sewing patterns and utilize space in my closet better.

The picture is shot from the computer. I also have my ironing board downstairs behind the door to the kitchen and the iron usually stays on the sewing table when not in use. So far, the kids have mostly left my stuff alone.

This wall previously housed our train table. In truth, we didn’t do too many track layouts there because the floor works out better in most cases.

Before the end of the year, the boys will share a bedroom and I will move back upstairs to the spare room.

I also want to point out my little portable DVD player in action on the corner of my table. In my old sewing room, there was a TV/DVD player just out of sight to the left of the table. That TV does not have a cable hookup.

So far, I have liked being downstairs. It’s a little change, and lots more clean-up and set-up, but it works for me!