Oh! Idid not think of that! Thanks for the heads up.
Sandy

Vitamin World has a wonderful product called "Flash Fighters". It has helped me tremendously. It has evened out my mood, no more extreme mood swings. Knock on wood, I have not had any hot flashes. Best of all it has made me regular instead of one lasting for a month or two or three at a time.

Amazon.com has a bendable gooseneck light for $18.95 plus shipping that you stick on the back of your sewing machine. I have one somewhat like this one and I love it. Also, I bought a clip-on fan (Walmart) that cost about $10.00. At some point, you might think about an overhead fluorescent light. Those don't heat up like regular lights and give good lighting. They aren't expensive. If you don't have any serious health issues than you might want to visit a health food store and talk to someone about some herbal supplements to help with the hot flashes. Good luck!

I haven't read all the posts. I have purchased OTT light bulbs using my 40 or 50% off coupons from Joanns. It makes a huge difference in the lighting and keeps the room cool, there is no heat from them at all. I do have track lighting that I have to keep off when it is super hot outside b/c yes it gets super hot over the light bulbs.

Bed bath and beyond sell something called a "chill pad" that looks like some kind of non woven fabric and you soak it and out it around your neck. It retains the coolness. Something like that might help. I have a tower fan along with our central air that seems to help.

You have a lot of great suggestions here. My sewing room does have a wall a/c unit, but I also keep a larger fan oscillating on top of my bookshelves, and I use a tiny little round fan right next to me at the sewing machine, blowing in my face. I know it's our irons that throw most of the heat, but I have to keep mine on ... I hate waiting for the darned thing to reheat if I shut it off!

try floresant lighting.

Try my hot flashes treatment. Got this from a friend and it worked for me - sage tea made into ice tea. I made it with sage leaves from my herb garden, but health food stores and some of the chain vitamin stores have it in tea bags.

I used 20 leaves, washed, rolled up and chopped. If you're using teas bags, use tea and for both, use the following directions.

Put them in a large tea pot or a 2 quart pyrex measuring cup and poured boiling water over them - like making regular tea. Let it steep about 10 minutes. Pour over ice cubes. Sweeten if the taste is too strong or bitter, just like you would regular ice tea.

Have a gooseneck desk lamp aimed at sewing needle, with an ott light bulb which I bought at Hancocks during a 50% off sale, so bulb cost 2.50, the bulb seems to be lasting a long time. I have curly day lights in lamps if needing to work at night.

Seems a lot of sewing rooms are the most uncomfortable rooms in the house and are just accepted as being so.

As for hot flashes, they are very treatable.