sewbiz girl--that is certainly a lot going on. I love the look and fabric of your bags. My dining room would make a nice sewing area but we invested a lot into our table, chairs and china cabinet plus the room is very open to the rest of the house. How many bags are you making?

SEWBIZGIRL - cool looking bags! What r they ? Also like your Bernina Record 30 lurking in the corner. I also have one and she is my work horse.....

oops ! that should read 830 not 30 (smacks self in head **!)

JENNR8R, do you have a contraption to take the weight off the quilt while using your Sweet 16? If so will you tell me more about it, please?

Yes, those are dog grooming arms with clamps attached to the ends of the straps to hold the quilt up off of the table. The arms attach to the back of the HQ Sixteen table perfectly with fasteners that came with the dog grooming arms.

I read about them on the "HQ Sweet Sixteen Quilters" Facebook group. I haven't had them very long, and I'm not totally sold on their usefulness to me. I think they would be more helpful if I didn't have so much table space that already supports my quilt.

Do you have a suspension system for your Sweet Sixteen, JENNR8R? If so please tell us about it.

A pic right now would be too embarrassing!! I have settled in a nook of our living room. My work area is L-shaped, if you don't consider the quilt frame behind me.

Mine is U shaped and I can walk around my cutting/ironing table.

I like a high work surface too, Fiona, even though I'm only 5'3". I can sew all day and all night with no back or neck pain at all.

My cutting area and sewing area are combined on a hollow core door. I can cut from the left end of the door if I need more than the 30" width of it. The studio is set up in a galley arrangement with a floor frame, ironing board and storage running parallel to the sewing/cutting area.

When we were working on this room we drew it on graph paper, trying to squeeze in all I needed. The only thing that moves is the ironing board, it swivels side to side, but is usually farthest from my sewing machine. It sort of forces me to get up to use it.
I guess it's sort of a mangled U