Originally Posted by Rita's mom
Missy the quilt is beautiful! Boy you are fast! I don't seem to ever get anything finished. I am trying to change that though, I wrote earlier about how I had almost finished my own peaceful sewing room that was going to be my own get away all to myself, when I ended up giving it up to a young man who needed a place to stay because things were so bad for him at his moms and dads homes. Well I decided on plan B. I am going to try to do something with my laundry room. It is not my first choice at all, there is only one small window to the east and everyone has to walk through it to get to the family room and bedroom I gave up. My dh just put the last of the drywall up today and will tape and texture it this week. It has a sink and cabinets on the east wall were the washer and dryer are because the people who owned our house before us had made an apartment for their daughter down there and had a kitchen down there, and it has a large closet that my dh put shelves in. It is not finish yet and the floors are still cement but I got some ideas from here on the board and he put alot of outlets waist high on the two walls he did today. It is not what I was planning a few months ago but I decided to make this change a good thing and find the positive in it. So....instead of thinking I am having to sew in the laundry room I have decided that I am very lucky because I have a washer and dryer in my quilting room! LOL
I am trying to come up with some ideas to make this room relaxing and a place I enjoy being, so I was wondering if any of you have any ideas of things I can do or add to this room to make it a nice place to spend time. I know you are all very creative ladies so any ideas would be appriciated.
Thank you so much! One thing we did when we were designing and putting together our quilting studio was to make sure the work triangle was the focus and then use the rest of the room to hold the stash, books, mags, and other things. We went to Target and found some fabric baskets to hold some of the stash plus some of our larger quilting tools. Our mats and rulers are hanging on the wall. One thing I would not recommend buying the plastic mini-bolts to fold your fabric on. The reason I say that is because I used one and after refolding the fabric on that I slid the mini-bolt out. So, to spend that much money (which I did on 150 of them) is IMHO not really a good use of our money. Thread is also hanging. I even made a wall hanging with the pockets from men's button down shirts to hold extra blades, rotary cutters and other small but essential things.
I will keep thinking on this and write more about this later.
Missy