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AngelinaMaria 11-02-2014 10:26 AM

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?

borntoquilt 11-02-2014 10:34 AM

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.....

borntoquilt 11-02-2014 10:35 AM

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

Terry in the ADK 11-02-2014 01:02 PM

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?

JENNR8R 11-02-2014 01:21 PM


Originally Posted by Terry in the ADK (Post 6953672)
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.

Terry in the ADK 11-02-2014 01:31 PM

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

nanacc 11-02-2014 01:39 PM

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.

beksclen 11-02-2014 01:48 PM

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

ghostrider 11-02-2014 02:27 PM


Originally Posted by QuiltingByFiona (Post 6952863)
I use quite a high cutting bench for my machine to sit on. I found that on a normal height table I would bend my neck towards the machine and end up with neck pain. Now I use a high bar stool on wheels and am almost in a standing position. Works for me!

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.

http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/13/49/59/13/studio10.jpg

RugosaB 11-02-2014 04:06 PM

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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


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