Do you?
 

do you put your sewing away for the week before Christmas, I was thinking of doing that so I could at least get my other work done, haven't even started my baking yet!

I don't put my things away until a couple of days before Christmas. .... and I'll have it back out working on some quilt project as soon as the guests leave...... Christmas comes once a year...... quilting is my daily fix!!

Nah, but I have a sewing studio.

Never put mine away. I have a separate quilt studio. Plus I'll still be quilting on Christmas eve day! I do clean it up after each project or when customers are coming.

Phyllis
QuiltingGrannie
Quilter's Pantry

I don't have a choice- My stuff gets put away when hubby is home- I get to sew only when he is away for work. I do not have a sewing room. When he is gone I leave it all out in my kitchen :) on my portable tables. I hope by early spring the house will be done then I can have my sewing stuff set up in the guest room. Hubby bought me a sewing cabinet for Christmas so that will help a lot!!!

I have to since my sewing room is also our guest room. We had our Christmas with DD and her family from out of town this week-end. I kept sewing (an apron) right until the last minute, then had to put everything away, a big job. It does always make me feel a little anxious to have to put it all away! But then once they were here they wanted me to sew badges on some uniforms they brought along! Then had to dig through and move all of their stuff to get my machine out again. Anyway, it was fun and they turned out nice. It's always OK once they get here, don't miss my sewing then. Plus DGS loved his 3D fabric pillow case I made for him. Great week-end.

I don't put maine away . I do have a seperate sewing studio. If I did put it away ... I just know there would be a seam/tear/rip or some last minute mending that just had to be done.

No, I don't put it away. I just go and do the other things that need to be done and know that it is waiting patiently for me. It is good to take a break from it and think about up coming projects. The great smell of baking will make up for the "no sewing" time (smile). Merry Christmas to you and yours.

I put it away when I need the dinning room table.

I just pile everything into the sewing room (I usually spread all over the downstairs), but I kind of do it just a couple of days before the family is due to arrive (they come up the day before Christmas) and I always have last minute sewing to do (sigh...)

My sewing room is my guest room so have to put it away but can leave the machine out.

I just try to straighten up the room it's also our computer room so I like to have my stuff put together but not far away. I have a desk for tools and stuff and the fabric I'm working on depends on how big where I put it sometimes on the GBR bed so it doesn't get all mangled up. Hate to put everything away. Merry Xmas all. Sue

I live alone and my tiny 1 bedroom apt is my studio ! Actually, I sew on the table in the living room and am lucky enough to have a separate "sun room" that I cut, iron and store things in, but it has a door where I can close it off when it isn't in use. Since it isn't "conditioned" and this time of year I usually keep the door closed unless I'm working in there. For whatever reason, and I just don't know why, my sewing hasn't spilled over to my bedroom. I did use my queen size bed to lay out a quilt top with backing and batting and baste it. (Actually, there is a sewing machine stored in the bedroom between a love seat and the wall.. ....) My "cutting table" is an old table top that I have a mat on; it is small and I'm forever having to move stuff around so I can use the entire top for cutting. My "dining" table is a small round top and it has at least one sewing machine on it and isn't conducive to cutting.

I'm not hosting any Christmas get togethers so it doesn't matter. I did have folks over for Thanksgiving and it did take me a while to get sewing machines and other sewing stuff put away.....but the funny thing was my guests wanted to see my sewing machine and works in progress !!!

Years back when I was married and we had a big 2 story 4 bedroom house, I had a sewing room upstairs and it was easy to just leave it.....but oh, would I rather have that house back AND the marriage, OR, my little 1 bedroom and peace !!! Thoughts to ponder !

Me too. I'm having 12 for Christmas Eve dinner.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all.

I can shut my sewing room door and leave everything just as it is. I enjoy being in my sewing room more during the holidays! Too much togetherness gets on my nerves.

my stuff stays out year round...but it's in a separate room....so I can close the door.

My sewing room is also a bedroom when we have more than two people stay over. So the room is picked up and things like rotary and pins are put away when the grandchildren sleep in that room. Otherwise it is just a sewing room and it definatly looks like one things also go on the futon - how does that happen? lol

Yep, my sewing room used to be the attached garage. It will rearranged tomarrow and made into the buffet room. Cutting table will be moved into the living/dining room for more seating, all other tables in the sewing room will hold the food and drinks. My youngest son is here to help me move things around so that my machines will be no where near anything that could cause damage.

Yep, I'm one of those for whom the dining room table is the studio so it has to get packed up. It will be back out the day after Christmas :-)

Peace & love, Holly

I have a separate room that is also my office so I'll just shut the door.

mltquilt

I have taken over a spare bedroom, so I can just close the door if necessary. Other years I've just not sewn the month of Dec., but this year I've con't. to work on a couple quilting projects and made some gifts as well. As of right now, I finished the last pillowcases last night so all my sewn gifts are finished and only 3 things left to wrap. Woohoo!

I have a seperate sewing space and never put it away. I have also decided to not do any Christmas baking this year. I have been trying to watch what I eat and decided that no one needs the extra calories in my house so I will sew instead of baking this week.

My sewing room started out as our guest room. We recently traded the sofa bed in there for a blow up bed, freeing up a lot of space to work in. No guests for Christmas this year and we're going to relatives' for dinner, so the answer is "no," my sewing things won't get put away. Actually, I just sandwiched a quilt yesterday so this week will get started on the quilting.

I have a seperate studio so it never gets put away besides I will be using it I am sure. My hide-a-way.

I don't have to put mine away as it is on the third floor, no man's land :) Besides, that might be the day my daughter brings me something to sew. :)

No, my sewing stays out, of course it does help that my sewing room, as such, is in a separate building.

I will not need to this year - Thanksgiving was when it was all put away. We have a 5 bedroom house, but it is all full so I use the kitchen table for sewing, the kitchen counter for cutting and the diningroom table gathers what is being used at the moment. I store fabric in the pantry, upstairs bookshelves have the books, magazines and other supplies another room closet has some of my UFO's. The garage has fabric in various cupboards and plastic storage bins I have gathered. Plastic tubs and drawers are filled. I only started this four years ago. I like sewing in the kitchen the hub of activity is just fine, if I had my own room I would feel isolated. As it is, hubby spends most of his time in what I call his man cave. That room filled with computers and a TV. The one thing I wish is that the house was on one level, too many stairs to navigate. Oh, I have the ironing board up in one of the bedrooms, so that is another place used in my quilting. I think I should have taken up another passion in retirement - like knitting. It wouldn't require so much space.

I don't put it away, but I fortunate to have a separate room for sewing. Yesterday, the only sewing I got done was two inches of hand-sewn binding. The project will be there if I pop in for another 3 inches each day this week.

I live alone so my home is my studio. I intended to use a room in the basement as my sewing room but I don't like it down there all alone. I love to sew in the bedroom I set up for my mother. She is 94 and no longer sleeps over for fear of falling but she always makes sure the room is the way she likes it so I have to put everything up before she comes. I use my island in the kitchen as a cutting space and it is just the right height to work around. I have recently started cutting out several quilts at a time and "kitting" them...this makes clean up a lot easier. I have about 8 kits done right now to begin the year. I have put up all but some handwork which I keep in the den and work on while I watch TV. My Christmas sewing is all done and I am enjoying this week as a little break. I am having a few in for dinner on Christmas Eve and then will go to my son's for Christmas day after I go pick up my mother.

I've STARTED sewing this week, just to be contrary! For one reason and another I hadn't got to my sewing machine for weeks, and the craving just got too strong, so I'm afraid lots of pre-Christmas jobs have been abandoned for the past few days! But I'm lucky -I live alone and have enough room for my quilting things to stay out all the time. And am spending much of Christmas with others, so don't actually have a lot of preparation left to do!

I try and find some balance, but quilting gets more attention. Who needs food!

No, I didn't put it away yesterday, but I did put it in the shop.....so sad. I took a week of vacation this week and had no plans other than sewing all week long. Now, my husband and I have had an argument, things are tense (nothing that won't get resolved) and I feel a shift in the universe......all because of the loss of my wonderful little friend, my sewing machine...

Yes! I put everything away. My sewing table goes out on the porch and with a color coordinated sheet, it becomes my table for storing cookies, candies, ham and whatever doesn't fit into the refrigerator. Then when the tree comes down (sad day here), I completely redo my little sewing area - how big is it? Big enough to fit a nice sized Christmas tree and gifts!!, and prepare for the new year's sewing that I am going to do. I recycle some of the fabrics that I am not going to use in the near future to a neighbor who is just starting out sewing and doesn't have too big of a stash and then my brain starts a'clickin' away as to what is planned for the new year. I am going to make my friend a quilt, I would like to make a year round table cloth for our antique round oak table and also a Christmas table cloth, I would like to make a little doll quilt for our little neighbor who will be playing with dolls soon! I have all kinds of ideas brewing up there in that old grey matter! Now, if I HAD a sewing room or an area big enough to store everything neatly, I wouldn't put everything away, but yes, I would stop sewing with the "sew-sheen" (my sister used to call a sewing machine a sew-sheen. It stuck!!!! She was a lingerie designer for Vassarette and has done her fair share of sewing). But, if I had anything that had to be hand sewn, like embroidery or binding, that I would do in my spare time during the holidays. I am actually doing that right now. I am making a quilt with 23 different colors, cross stitch embroidery - been working on it for two years now and am still on the red (first color) - three shades of red!!!!!!! But I only work on it during Christmas or when I take the mother to the doctor or dentist. It'll be pretty when I am done. Actually, I should work on it when I sit outside during the spring and summer, but I do like to take my machine out on the patio and sew outside! That is neat too. Lot of work bringing out and taking in, but it's really nice to work outside. Enough! Edie

I sew up a storm at Christmas. I'm off work for two weeks. I will sew all day on Christmas too. Family gets together on the 26th . Not at my house either. No room for everyone.
Sandy

It is bad luck to put it away or close the door. Last Thur I thought I had finished the last doll dress (I dressed 6 dolls this year, including one with 20 outfits) so I closed the door to the sewing room and said I will clean you in Jan. Two hours later I got a call saying one of the dolls I had done had accidentally been given to another family. So you guessed it. Sunday after church I made a dress, overall, shirt, nightgown, panties and a blanket. But another little girl will get a doll from Santa.This time I just closed the door and made no statement.

Heaven forbid!
That's where I go to relieve the stress.
Sew a seam, hum a carol!
MaryKatherine

I only put things away when I know we have someone coming to stay the night. Otherwise, I keep it all pretty well organized so I don't have a RUSH job of moving things! Merry Christmas to all of you - thank you for all you have shared over these past few months! I look forward to these postings on a daily, morning coffee, basis! lol

No. I always have mine out. But my sewing room is the entire second floor of our house. Previous owners converted part of the attic into 1 big bedroom for their daughter. Our daughters grew up in it and now that they are gone, it is my sewing room. Only bad parts are climbing the stairs up and down all day (so it's now part of my daily exercise LOL) and the sloped ceiling. It's my hideaway. Visitors are always welcome up there (unless it is young children) but most people don't like the stairs as they are kind of narrow.

No, I have a sewing room and when my granddaughter visits during the Christmas break, we sew together.