UK newbie
 

Hello, I'm in the uk and just moved to my new house with a converted garage which I'm setting up as a sewing space to share with my mum. We both do lots of different (casual) sewing but we both like quilting best. I'm not that experienced but I like putting shapes and colours together and generally having a go.

I would like to sew more than I do. I work full time and it feels like I spend the rest of my time either eating, washing up or looking at my phone. My current situation is that my sewing room is cold and messy and sad. I want to set it up properly before I start using it, otherwise I'll always be in a mess. But unpacking and organisation is boring so...you know...I pick up my phone instead.

Anyway I hope over the holiday break I will make progress and get my machine set up. I have committed to the jittery wings "all the good" quilt along, which is starting in January so with any luck I'll get my sewing room feeling like the happy place it should be so that I can get on with making a fabulous new quilt https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/smile.png

a warm welcome from me in my safe place here at home in Ky. happy quilting!

Welcome, welcome. Can you put a little heater in that garage to help with the cold? any kind of storage is better than none. bookcases or shelving units are great. baskets, boxes, plastic containers with lids and many other things can help keep things tidy and easy to locate again. Have fun and get to sewing soon.

Welcome from Southern California. One thing that helps me organize my sewing room (or anything else in my house) is to promise myself I only need to spend 1/2 hour at it. That gets me started and often leads to more. Then I look at what I've accomplished and feel good about it. Good luck and you can do it!

Hello NikkiNikkiNikki,

Welcome from the Pacific Northwest of the USA! Good luck setting up your sewing space!

-Sewsation

Welcome from South Louisiana!

Hi Nikki, welome from Fort William, Scotland
Enjoy your great sewing/crafting space. It will keep evolving. Just enjoy the process.
But sit at a mahine and start to sew. I can lose myself easily doing that.
Janice

Welcome from Michigan!:)

Welcome from snowy Northern Indiana.
I hope you understand that I send you, in love, some suggestions for your sad, cold space that touched my heart. I had such a space and the best things that helped were to paint it a bright cheery color, including the woodwork, and to get some strong lighting. Marcia

Welcome to the board!
My sewing room currently looks like a bomb hit it https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png
I need to clean it up but I keep starting new projects. I think I'm hopeless haha

Love this, and the earlier suggestions of heaters, storage solutions and 1/2 hour spurts of work. I will look at freshening the place up and making it comfy so that I love it in there and dont want to leave.

Thanks everyone for the welcome I'm glad to be herehttps://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/heart.gif

Welcome to the QB from Michigan USA! It sounds like you have a good space to make into the best sewing space. Motivation is one thing that sometimes needs a bit of a nudge. The holiday break may just be the nudge you need. Here's to getting unpacked! I know you can accomplish this. I for one want to hear about your progress. I have been in a place were I couldn't even look at a sewing machine much less sew. It sometimes just takes time the Wham! Nothing can stop you. the effort it takes to talk on the phone goes into making a most beautiful quilted creation. I hope you can 'crack the whip' so to speak and begin a bit of organization without fear that that is isolated only to you. I don't believe I will ever see my sewing room all nice an neat.
Again welcome to the QB I do hope to see a lot of you here.

Welcome from SE Michigan USA

Hi Nikki and welcome to the board from NE Ohio, 🇺🇸.

Welcome to the board from Arizona. Good luck with your setting up your happy place. I remember when I worked full time, I could not wait to be able to sew sew sew sew when ever I wanted. Now I do that all the time.

Welcome from Idaho... put the phone down and get busy creating!

Just a quick little update... on sunday I spent most of my day sorting things out, unpacking, fixing things and cleaning the main house but I also went in and pulled fabric for a project I'm going to be working on in the new year and I started the cutting process. I have never cut all of the pieces all before sewing, I usually do it all as I go but am following a pattern this time so trying to do what I'm told. I'm very slow, I have cut 3 out of 24 fat quarters but am enjoying the process. I might get another few done later today https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/boy.gif

Hi NikkiNikkiNikki - from one Nikki to another! Yes, I am a Nikki also! I live in the US in the state of Missouri - smack dab in the middle of the country. I was the only Nikki that I ever heard about for years - and now there are a bunch of us. And a quilter too! I have two daughters, the youngest is a quilter and the oldest is just now starting to sniff around - following Bonnie Hunter - the Scrap Quilter - the only thing is, she doesn't have any scraps - but I guess her Mom (me) might be able to help her LOL

welcome from the sunset coast of Michigan
 

Welcome! Extra sweaters or a heater can make you have more energy in a cold space, and organizing just one thing a day is enough to make real progress. Hugs!

Welcome Nikki from North Carolina USA, hope you are well on the way to having your room to play in, you’ll soon be addicted.
Btw, I’m a Yorkshire lass, originally from Leeds 😃

hello qnd welcome.

Tolerable working temperatures are important. So figuring out a way to have that might be near the top of your list.

If this will be mostly a storage area, then that is not so important. A lot of people sew at a kitchen or dining room table.

Welcome to the board, we are fun, i am in Arizona.