What makes a sewing room a studio? I went to a friends house and she asked if I wanted to see her studio. It looked just like a sewing room to me. Can anyone please list the differences?

Thanks, Debbie

the main differences between a sewing room and a studio are

(1) ego
(2) perspective
(3) self confidence

if you believe your product is art, wherever you work is your studio - even if it's a cardboard box in the garage. :wink:

well I'm glad you cleared that up! I had pondered that question myself just not enough to ask! Now if you need me I'll be in my studio!

and I will be in the middle of my mess lol :P

If I took time to clean it, I'd nver get to sew :!: :lol: :lol: :lol:

LOL - I call mine a sewing room or studio depending on my mood and what I am doing. It's also where I keep my computer, my loom, many books, and other things. It has good lighting (with two big windows and a little balcony outside and it opens with double doors into our bedroom) and one wall is a "design wall" - like a bulletin board that covers most of the wall so I can plan quilts, garments, etc. as well as pin up notes and swatches and patterns. I do a lot of photo editing (for the garments and quilts I sell, mostly, and for my website), and I use my autoCAD program to draft quilt patterns.

I do use it for designing and creating as much as sewing - possibly MORE than the sewing time! But usually the words "sewing room" come out of my mouth before "studio" because "studio" sounds a little pretentious. :lol:

I have always wanted a studio and today my sewing room became one. My family will surely make fun if I start referring to it as a studio. I do love to give them a reason to laugh though!

I cannot wait to have my own studio. For now, my sewing room is in a small room in the house. After we build a house...we will also build my "studio" LOL. haha

Heh. I just say "Mmmmkay, I'm gonna go sew..." and they all know to find me at the top of the stairs...

I was told that any space where art of any kind is created that it's a studio. I don't mind sounding hoity-toity - I have a sewing studio. LOL

Hmmmmm I guess the basement has now become my studio rofl

Margie

I started out an artist and then learned to sew. My machine sits atop my art table and my fabric is surrounded by paints, brushes, face paints, pastels, pencils, portfolios, oil paint, adhesives, razor blades, paper of all kinds, pads, beads, craft supplies, charcoal, drafting supplies, acrylic mediums, rubber stamps, watercolors, gouache ... basically a lifetime of art supplies; so, I get to call it a studio - no matter what comes out of that room.

:lol: :lol: :lol: YEP!!!

Well, if your basement is where your create your art, then I agree, by definition it is a studio. Things are really looking up around here.

It's fun to have some kind of moniker -- I call my sewing area the Quilt Cave. My husband is a musician in his spare time (computer whiz by day, guitar rocker by night, lol) and he does call his "music room" his studio -- he has recording equipment and tons of instruments along with his computer, etc. He is the only one in our household (we have 5 kids) with their very own room for their very own hobby! And it has a door, no less!

Garage/shop = mancave

Sewing room/studio/don't bothermeordieroom = bright airy female cave


:lol: 8-) :shock: :mrgreen:

Mine is a complete separate building in my backyard and I do call it my studio. It is has nothing but sewing machines and quilting supplies, very comfy and I can relax and let my creative side come out and enjoy myself.

My Garage is more of a work place thats where I make my living. But its a nice hangout on Friday nights when my buddies come over and we sit around eating pizza tossing a few back and work on something of ours.

So I guess I would consider myself lucky to have two places to call my own.

Billy

My sewing room/computer room is shared with my hubby. It is our small spare bedroom converted to a computer sewing room combo. Both of us have our desks and computers in here, plus my sewing machines. At least part of them....I have 3 more in our bedroom. In the meantime,,,,we call this room the Creation room..Ha!

I waited all these years until the kids grew up and left home to have my very own sewing spare. Well, what did I do? I filled up the spare rooms by moving my Mom and uncle in with us.
So, I have to wait a while longer for my own space. I would still move them in anyway (I think)...

Long ago I thought a Studio was seperate from the home. LOL My sewing/quilting room one day became the Sweat Shop. LOL

LOL

I have a Studio.....

when we moved into the house, I used the formal dining room

after a few months of the kids NOT using the Rumpus room, I "confiscated" it

When we had a home-business, the room got doors

now it holds the majority of quilty stuff, and is my Studio.

don't think it is pretentious, just a case of name-it-and-claim-it

....kids know what I'm doing when I'm in the studio, gives a little more weight to my craft

If others believe my "product" is art ... hmmmmm ... my friends and family seem to like the presents I give them.

I'm heading back to my lil "sewing room".

I'm with you gals, it can be called whatever you want. Mine is the dungeon, when I have to get things done I don't want to do, and the sewing room, that is where I 'make things.' Now, if I feel prestiges, then I guess it could be called a studio, but I like just calling it my sewing room, and I LOVE IT. It has everything right where I want it and then some. Happy sewing in what ever room you have...Joanie

I tend to think of a studio as a dedicated space; its only function is for sewing and storing of supplies. I think of a sewing room as the room where the sewing machine is, although it may well serve other purposes too. My sewing room doubles as a spare bedroom for when I have guests, which is not all that often, so I call it the sewing room rather than the spare bedroom, even though it is both.

Mine will always be a studio! I grew up in a studio (my father was a professional photogapher) so there was NEVER a question about what I would call my creative space. For me though, there is no ego involved..... just perspective and fond memories.

And if I were true to my past, I would actually have to call it my ***Too Dee Doo*** because I could never say studio when I was little. My mom and dad fondly called it that, and my sister and I still talk of it that way!

I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A STUDIO OR BETTER YET, A TOO DEE DOO!

I just recently had this discussion with my family. When the spare bed and dresser were removed from my sewing room in order to make room for my machine quilting frame, and when my design wall went up, I announced that the room was no longer a sewing room, but had made the transition to a quilting studio.

The room is now fully 100% dedicated to quilting and for me, that made the difference between a sewing room and studio.

My Husband calls my building I sew in my Sewing House Its my retreat away for stress

I'm with you on that one! My parents and grandparents, all artists, all had studios. Patrice summed it up nicely: if you view your work as art then where you create it is a studio

That definition made me chuckle. I don't care what it's called, as long as I am comfortable working there and can be surrounded by colors!

when I bought my house one of my students gave me a sigh she had painted, she added letters to it... Studio
so I have a home studio . I teach folk art painting and was not doing much sewing/quilting at the time. I now do more quilting and have also taken over the room above my studio, that is the quilting room where all my fabric and HQ is.

We have a dining room that is soon to become my studio/sewing room... DH has said that as we hardly ever use the room to eat in that I should make use of it for my crafts.... I am so lucky, he really is a keeper. 12 years of very happy marriage!

Hugs

Caroline

I agree with those 3 things....I would have said attitude, but they all work :) A Studio makes it sound that you are someone of importance....a sewing room is just another room in my house.

:-P I will be in my stusewdio, see you there! :P

I call the sewing room- my room. I was drawing up plans for a sewing room- about 500 sq. ft. FROG (family room over garage) but hubby kept taking space. Then I decided it was cheaper to do over the basement. Hubby started claiming space. Figured the room I have is small enough he can't claim space and I don't have to share. So even though I'd love to spread out and design a room, I don't want to share so I will stay where I am.

And I'm saving between 25K and 60K. :)

I call mine "The Hidey Hole".

When I moved to the enclosed garage and started teaching I started calling it my Sewing Studio. It was designed just for that purpose. It makes me feel important to have a "Studio"

My fabric is stored up stairs in the guest room closet - so when I'm going to go through my stash I just say "I'm going upstairs!" Then my hubby knows not to bother me and to answer the phone!

My sewing stuff is all downstairs in the lower level (ok, the basement), so I just say "Going downstairs!" and hubby knows to follow the same rules!

So, I guess I call my sewing room studio "Upstairs" or "Downstairs"!

I laugh because we are adding on to our house so I can have a 30'x14' sewdio. My DH has claimed it would make a perfect mancave with bar, bigscreen, etc. Dream on, Dear Hubby! I told him he could have the attic space and it would be just as large! Now I consider that very generous!

LOL, I guess mu kitchen is my studio for now, til one of the kids moves out SOMEDAY!!!!!!!

I refer to my sewing room as my "sewing sanctuary".
sandy