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Great miniquilt and I love the quilt design you choose.

aa small tv with a DVD player would be nice to have, in case you want to watch an instructional DVD for a quilting project?? also a good place for your ironing board is in the wall. I saw a kit that you can buy. you make a cut in your wallboard and install an electrical outlet into it and the iroing board(no legs)bolts in and folds up into the cubby hole and there is a door to close it in and when you aren't ironing, you just fold it up and close the door. I think there is also a place for your iron inside there.

great idea tv, dvd player and instructional dvds. Good one Grandmafay and the ironing board and iron installed in the wall with it's own plug-in another great idea. I'm adding those ideas to my list.

I just saw one of the Ironing board kits on Joanne.com I doesn't have the plug in it but is installed next to a plug on the wall. go and check it out. It is on their sale page

hi again....i was looking again and it is on their Easter Sale...on line only starting today. go to the picture of the irong(yellow oliso)and click there. i think it on page#4 or 5 of that section.

Thanks again. I'm going....>

A design wall is a "must have"! Congratulations on the new room. I just moved to a bigger room also, and I love it!

Chris Cole

I need either a window with sunshine or a sunshine imitating lamp. A comfy rocking chair for hand sewing, a maid to clean up after me.

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Originally Posted by Gwyn

I need either a window with sunshine or a sunshine imitating lamp. A comfy rocking chair for hand sewing, a maid to clean up after me.

I got the sunshine and the rocker -- the maid...now that's an idea!!!

Hey guess what? My landlord is remolding one of the duplex, he put a new pocket door in and I got the old one. I made it into a quilt Ironing board, It's hallow so its light wight. I just put it over my cutting table and store it in bedroom when not using it. Penny

great idea Penny Doty..........you and your landlord made out, he didn't have to dump it and you got an ironing table.....HOORAY.

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great idea Penny Doty..........you and your landlord made out, he didn't have to dump it and you got an ironing table.....HOORAY.

Yes it is. it is amazing what we can think of when we don't have money. I looked at that door for a week sitting out side, and finely asked if I could have it. Penny

Janice4, My DH and I are VERY interested in the peg board. How did your hubby make it? Is there something that sets it out from the wall? A frame around it? We'd like to make one for my sewing room. Thanx for any info you can give us.

Lots of cool ideas here and love the pictures

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Originally Posted by Corry

In response to the plug in problem.....when my hubby set up my sewing room he bought me a strip with about 5 plug ins and screwed it to the wall a few inchs from my design wall and convenient to my sewing table. He bought one with just a four ft cord so it is just long enough to go down the wall and to the plug down there on the wall. It is so convenient! Sounds like such a little thing but when ya have a bad back it is a great convenience. As far as light...he bought me a 4ft shop light and hung it from the ceiling and boy is that room lit up now! It is not a pretty light but it looks fine! I bought a few of those plastic drawers from Walmart. They have 3 drawers in them about 20 or 30 inches wide and 6 or 7 inches deep. I stack them and it holds alot of fabric or what ever you want to put in them. I have another one shoved under the end of my sewing table. My most recent addition to my sewing room is my screen door!! My hubby made me a screen door so my dogs and my kitty can not get in my sewing room but the air conditioning can get in. I normally kept the door shut when not in there sewing but in the hot months of the year it got really hot in there because the a/c was not able to circulate into the room. My stabilizer for doing machine embroidery was gummy when i tried to use it and i would have to turn on the ac unit in that room to cool it off when i wanted to sew. It would take an hour or so before it was cool in there. Sounds all good but having the screen door solves the problem and now don't have to crank up the other ac and saves money. Keeps the kitty out and off my table. He even painted the door and the screen pink to match my room.

Now all this is good, good, good. Hubby sounds fantastic. Kitty sounds fantastic. Lighting is just tooo good! And the screen door is a dream come true. You could almost feel like you have some of the good ole outdoors when your inside sewing. That he painted it pink is icing on the cake. Your world sounds like fun. Enjoy. I liked your story.

Mary Jane, i really like your corner desk and wondered if someone made it for you or did you buy it somewhere? I need to get one for my sewing/craft/computor room....it's so crouded in here that i can hardly move and need to rearrange things a bit in order to get sewing again.

thanks,
Fay

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My desk was a left-over when my daughter left the nest. Not sure where she bought it, so I just called her in NC and she couldn't remember but thought perhaps it might have been KMart...since the 'Big K' is in a "quick-trip" distance from home.

Good luck, it's been a while.......but let me tell you..it is great, accommodates all the necessities.....

Happy hunting..MaryJane

a comfortable chair and light

thanks Maryjane, I will check at Kmart........maybe i can find something that's at least similar or works in my corner.
my sister helped me tape and pin a border on my Grandmother's Flower Garden top that our mom made in the late 1950's. She helped do some hand piecing on it back in Missouri as well as my older sister...(a family top i guess you would say.) Mom gave both sisters a top as well...Glenda got a Dahlia and Dee got a 9 patch that she helped make too. Now i need to stich down the edges of the flowers along the border and send it to our cousin who does long arm quilting for a living. I ordered the backing and had it shipped to her already and now i need to get busy.
take care and happy quilting.
Fay

Hmm...I can only say what I wish I had. I have one pretty good size table (really a door on 2 filing cabinets), but I use it to cut and sew. To have enough room I have to remove the sewing machine, and then put it back (big pain!). So, I would prefer separate spacious places to sew and cut. My sewing room is tiny (6X8) and it also hold the computer and office stuff. Have fun in your new room! Your gonna love it!
~Bj~

laundry baskets for scraps, music system, computer chair with rollers, a tall plastic box for scissors, hard cinnamon candy, candles strategically placed, stashes of fabric, etc . several pincushions or receptacles for pins to save you steps. ironing board and iron.

Nothing else, it's great to have a room just for you!
Congrats and please show us loads of pictures from al your nice projects you'll make in your own "atelier" :)

Coffee and chocolate!

My must have in my sewing room is a trash can. Sad or what?

Only read page one so far, but my had to have was a peg board for my rulers and templates used on my HQ 16. Either the pink measureing tape or like I use a 120 inch yellow tape measure. I also have pen and paper on my frame for notes.
Start a notebook with ideas to use as quilting motifs.

Congradulations on your Avente!

Oh, you ladies are so "funny" with your comments...this new room for her quilting... she is serious and wants our help :)....ok, have to admit I am jealous as it is nice that she has a room she can go into & CLOSE THE DOOR :) I have all the rest the Bose Radio, dog at my feet, razor for my mistakes. So, my input is a "Door" with a sign "Do Not Enter" :)