Sewing Outdoors?
#34
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Davenport, Iowa
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We have a large back deck making that possible if I decided to. But living in Iowa and how the house is situated we get strong southeast winds that would just blow everything away. Fortune smiles on me though because of a large sun porch with 10 windows and two ceiling fans. That's where I sew in the summertime!
#35
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Horse Country, FL
Posts: 7,341
Oh, sure. In FL, sewing outside is during the winter months. We had a covered deck when we lived in Seattle area, and that was my go to place in the summer for sewing. When we are in PA in the summer, we sometimes see the Amish sewing on their machines on the front porch. Love being outside.
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#36
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: NH
Posts: 645
We have a screened porch, too, and it is lovely to sew out there in the summer. I have had a few friends over on a summer afternoon to sew and chat. We do handwork and enjoy the flowers and birds and summer sounds. Heavenly! And no bugs to deal with. The first few years we were here, we couldn't eat on the deck because of the yellow jackets. So the screened porch was the first thing we added on. It gets morning sun and afternoon shade, which is just right. But I haven't tried using my machine out there yet. I'm not sure the table is strong enough.
#37
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: The Villages, FL
Posts: 149
When I go camping for the summer, I sew outside on the deck. It is very peaceful and relaxing. Folks at the campground will come ove and ask what I am making. I do cut everything before I travel to make it easier.
#40
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 4,391
We had a porch that Dad had enclosed with glass in the 40's. Now we would call it a 3-season room. I would move the electric sewing machine in a cabinet from in the living room to the other side of the wall, which was out in the porch. I could open all the windows I wanted. But in March it would get to 100 degrees out there because of all the south facing windows. Then the cabinet would be bumpity bumped over the threshold to the living room where it was cooler. I'm surprised that cabinet held up.
Sometimes I would sleep out there in the porch because it was much cooler at night than the upstairs bedrooms.
Sometimes I would sleep out there in the porch because it was much cooler at night than the upstairs bedrooms.
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