What types of lights do you use in your quilting rooms?

Ott Lights?
Bendable lights that attaches to your machines?

Flourescent lights?

This should be a fun topic to discuss!

I have 6 of the flourescent lights that are 4 ft olng. When sewing my machine has a Bendable Bright Light that is attached. I also have floor Ott lights standing. One at the LA & 1 @ my machine. I am well lit! Love those Ott Lights!

thanks for replying as I just heard of the bendable lights for sewing machines (I don't have an ott light yet) would love to buy one

I have an OTT light bulb in a lamp and a small florescent light behind my machine.

I have four bulbs in a ceiling fan light in the middle of the room. That is also over my longarm. I have 22" fluorescent lights over each of my cutting tables. I have the ott light, but I don't care too much about it. I have a little lamp with a funny little bulb (it maybe fluorescent), that is extremely bright by my sewing machine. I have that same kind of lamp on my computer desk. I got those lamps at IKEA and I really do like them. I think they were about $7.00 and to me, they are much better than the ott light. I have a floor lamp right next to my ironing board. Some regular desk type lamp on my bookkeeping desk.

ott light at my machine

I have flourescents in the ceiling. They're ok; better than plain bulbs. But then I have a small bendable desk lamp I got at Target behind the sewing machine. It has a super bright light of some sort in it.

I have a bendable floor light I got at Mendard's that has a 'daylight' bulb in it. I especially like the floor lamp because I can easily move it from the horizontal freezer (which doubles as my cutting area & ironing board) to my sewing machine.

The bright desk lamp is nice because it gives off a little heat, which warms up my basement sewing area. The 'daylight' lamp reminds me of sunlight and makes me smile. I always feel warm & sunny down in that little corner. Reminds me of my mom a lot.

Please don't tell DH but I have tons of lights in my sewing space. (I don't think he ever looks in there - this is a good thing as Martha would say). I love it to be bright, bright, bright when I work there. (DH is a light turner off-er. I get up in the morning, turn two lights on in the family room, he gets up next and always turns the same one off).

I have a window in my dining room where I sew, but after dark it's like a dungeon. The overhead is a chandelier that has four candle type bulbs in yellow glass pointing up. I've got to do something. I'm going blind!

ott by my machine, and next to my hand working table.

I prefer to sew during the daylight hours at my dining room table near a large window facing north. But of course I never finish my project before dark so I put some flourescent full spectrum screw-in type bulbs in my dining room fixture.... six of 'em. Almost just as good as daylight.

to bjnicholson.... it might be a good time to change your overhead light fixture and get one where the bulbs shine down instead of up.

Ott lights - one has long bendable arm & is clamped to top of sewing cabinet. Another over ironing area.

I have four bulbs in a ceiling fan for general lighting. Behind my machine I have a goose neck lamp with an OTT Lite bulb. Works out great. I have the light I need right where I want it.

I have an Ott light by my machine. I would like a bendable but think they are pricey. Also have halogen track lighting

So far I have the squirly fluorescents in the ceiling fan and the light on the sewing machine. Used to have a gooseneck lamp by my old machine whose light didn't work, but one of the kids claimed it for his/her dorm room and it hasn't been seen since!

Get some florescent lights - more light with less wattage. I did that in my dining room - 12 lamps. It also keeps it cooler under the light.

They do make decorative florescents if you don't want the curly lights.

My sewing is done at the dining room table so I have the dining room fixture that is not centered over the table,instead it is more at the end where the machine is so I feel like I'm being interrogated while sewing. I also have a flourescent desk lamp since the overhead is bad light. DH is supposed to be putting a hook in the ceiling and adding chair to center my fixture over the table so maybe that will help a little.

Daylight Company lights.

i have a huge parlor i have taken over for my sewing room-overhead lighting is good and an ott light by my chair as i do a lot of applique.for sewing on the machine-it's still the portable machine (jamone)and overhead lightling.havent tried this at night yet.

my sister just gave me an Ott light that I have over my cutting board. Being my sewing room is also a bedroom, the light isn't the best and the Ott light really helps!

besides the overhead light (a ceiling fan w/ four lights) I have a pole lamp with adjustable light fixtures, and a clip-on light that I have attached to my pegboard to shine down on my cutting table. I could use a better lighting system.

Quilting area is crammed into my little bedroom...with the iron on, the gooseneck lamp, the lights in the vanity area, the light from the sewing machine and yet another lamp, I get very hot and sweaty and have to turn it all off sometimes and start again when everything including me has cooled off

I have natural or "daylight" florescent lighting in the end of the room with my fabric storage and cutting table with a ott light floor lite that does double duty over the quilt frame and the sewing machine. Also a table ott lite near the chair I use when doing hand work. The older I get, the more light I seem to need.

lots of light in the studio, and by the couch doing hand stuff I have a floor OTT light. I take a portable OTT light with me when going to classes or away.

I have a floor type Ott lite that sits in the corner between my two machines. That way I can angle it toward the machine I am using at the time. I also have another ott lite that sits on the cabinet of the machine I prefer to use...it has that round base where I can stick bobbins, etc., and the neck that I can adjust. I bought it at Joanns for a really good price. I used to sew in my dining room under my big window and that is what I really preferred, however, it was kind of dark at night. Now that my son is married and out, I have his old room. Kind of nice to not feel like I always have to put my stuff away.

I have five fluorescent fixtures with four 4' bulbs in each one. I also use an Ott light behind my machine. My sewing room is 19' x 19' and it is like taking the roof off on a very bright sunny day!! Love it.

The main lighting in my sewing room is flourescent, but with natural light tubes. I also have an Ott-type light (different brand so I call it my Nott Light)

I was a lighting consultant in a prior incarnation. I have 8 -75w recessed light over my sewing counter and around the room based on the task area. I have a fan with 3 lights for general light. and over my work counter (20feet long) I have 6- 18 inch flourescent undercounter lights with daylight bulbs. when my electrician was installing my lights and electrical requests, he wanted to know if i was going to be running a sweat shop!!

I have 4 lightbulbs in my ceiling overhead and a bendable ott light

I have 2 Ott lights, a table one by my serger and a stand-up one over my cutting table. The bulbs are no longer available for sale in the store on the stand-up one so I have to buy them online.

I have a small bendable light on my sewing machine and another light that clamps onto my sewing table next to the sewing machine so I have additional light for that area.

I have a light that clamps onto my ironing table that has a low heat bulb in it so it doesn't get warm and add to the heat of the steam iron.

I have a small hallogen light next to my embroidery machine.

The main light in my sewing room is a pole light, which really isn't that great. We are having ceiling lights installed in all our bedrooms so hopefully that will increase the light in my sewing room. I have a nice window that I have purposely not put a curtain on so there is always light coming in.

What kind of bulbs does Ott use? The last incandescent light bulb factory in the US closed about two weeks ago. By 2012 all incandescent bulbs will not be sold in US. They just did that in Europe. People were buying as many incandescent bulbs as they could afford.

Wickn34

Ott lights. I love them !!!

Cheap florescent tubes.

NEVER use fluorescent lights if your fabric storage will be exposed, the ultra violet in the bulbs will fade fabrics over time. If you need good light to match fabrics, the best is still natural daylight from a window. I have a high intensity lamp, battery operated that I purchased for under $10. that I occasionally turn on if the day is overcast otherwise it is natural daylight and the built in sewing machine lights. :)

My ceiling lights are four long flourescent lights. I have an ott floor lamp next to my sewing table when I need more light!

I've used ott lights for the past 10 years or so. The colors are more true in that light but best of all it does help the seasonal disorder thing. hate that!

Florescent lights and ott lamp and ott light.

Ott lights. I bought the first one on sale from Nancy's Notions. The bulb burned out very soon after I bought it. I called and they sent a new bulb, no problem, and they didn't ask me to return the bad bulb. I've bought 2 more Ott lights when JoAnn's had 50% off sales. You can tell, I LOVE Ott lights!

I have two 4' double-fluorescent fixtures hanging over my sewing tables, as well as the regular ceiling light. My fabric is in cabinets that have doors on them, so it's not exposed to light.

I'm up all night due to DH's work schedule, so I need lots of light. My sewing room is just 9' square, so the two fluorescent lights are enough. The walls are a very light gold color, and the fabric cabinets are off-white, which make the room seem brighter. :)

i just have a regular ceiling fan and light on the ceiling but my hubby bought me a ott light with the magnifying attachment and in the daytime i have a window that gets plenty of light thru it