Dining room = Sewing room?
 

Hi do any of you use your dining room as your sewing room? If so could you please, please posts some pics? As of right now I have a little rolling drawer thing I put my odds and ends in. Plus I have a "beside my chair" ironing board made out of a TV tray. My table is about 36"X42". Between my table and the slider I have about 36", just enough to put my chair. My dining room is incredibly small so any ideas are great! Thank you. =) I can post a pic tomorrow. (After I get my clean laundry off the table ;) )
April

Dining Room Sewing - But of course!
 

I definitely use my dinning room to sew, even though I have a studio in my basement! I run my LA business out of my basement, which has absolutely no windows. I am like a fish w/o water when I can not get my mega doses of natural light. So I have migrated my every day sewing in to the kitchen/dining room. When I'm in the middle of my creating, it's not a pretty sight! And this is why hubby is building me yet another room for my every day sewing *giggles* It's going to have a great big window! He has made me agree that once the room is complete, that I will hide my creativity from sight when it's not actually being worked on. As incentive he's going to put in lots of cupboards (roflmao) Right now it's, "Oh, I will, I will." BUT once the room is complete we quilters know what's going to happen *evil laughter*

Love your kitchen and dining room, I think your hubby is a keeper!!

For me, I find I need a room that is not a dual duty room. If I had/have to sew in the living room, dining room/etc., I'm not going to sew, it's too much of a hassle to clear off everything to set up my sewing stuff, then have to clear it off before sitting down to dinner, etc. I understand that not everyone is able to have a separate room but I guess that we all do what we have to do.

I have my sewing machine cabinet behind the couch in the living room. My cabinet has an ironing board attached. The cutting table is behind the stereo. The fabric is in various locations around the rest of the house. This wayI can properly supervise the DH. My house is not a show case,but it works for me.

I always have a sewing machine on the dining room table (unless guests are coming for dinner). We have a breakfast bar where we have our meals tho (we are empty-nesters).
I also have a huge sewing room in the walk-out basement where my mid-arm, cutting counter, and the rest of my sewing/quilting stuff is. I kind of like it that way cuz I have to get up and move if I need anything from the sewing room.

I am spread all over my house. I have my sewing machine in my dinningroom, fabric in my bedroom and a folding table for cutting my fabric in my familyroom. We are moving soon and there will be a room that I can set up as my quilt room.

I converted my DD's room to a guest/sewing room back in Feb when she moved out. I love, love, love my space, and having a comfy bed for guests also. BUT, I don't have room to spread out a BIG quilt on my smallish cutting table. So,
a week ago I brought the crib quilt down to spread out and mark for applique. Then I figured it'd be easier to bring my machine down, and of course I needed my iron and ironing board, and while I was at it, blah blah blah. AFter a week, my DH said, "I thought you had a sewing room! Do you need two? REally?" I said, "No, I need three." I thought it was funnier than he did, and promised to clean it up the next day, which I did.

HA! I wish I had a dining room ! Mine is right on the kitchen table , And my washer and dryer are also in the small kitchen LOL. So I guess you would say my kitchen is the kitchen/laundry/sewing studio !

I use to use the dining table for cutting large pieces of fabric. I use to quilt on the table also. Now that our oldest Granddaughter has moved out I took the room as my sewing room. I use to have to share my little sewing room with 3 cats. Now I don't. I use to have to put everything away at night so the cats wouldn't get hair all over my stuff.
I love my new room and only use the dining table to sandwich my quilts and cut backings on.
Whatever works for you is what you should do.

I too use my dining room for a sewing room. It's only gets used a couple of times a year, so I just put everything away then. I don't really like to be isolated when I sew, so using the dining room works for me.

For YEARS I used my dining room table as my place to sew. My sweet husband didn't mind at all that I kept my projects out. We always found another place to eat our meals while I was actively working on a project. I can't post pictures of it since that was long ago. I have my own craft room now and I LOVE it. It was worth the wait to have an empty nest for the spare rooms!!

DH so graciously gave up the attached garage for my quilting space - it is wonderful - painted the floor and the peg board - it was already heated and paneled - now it is 2 stalls of quilting heaven!!! I guess he finally got tired of hearing me whining about needing more space.....LOL!!!

I know I'm blessed to be able to use the spare bedroom (youngest son's former bedroom) as my sewing room. After many said it was too far to travel to visit, I thought great the stay was too long anyway. I turned it into a utility room with the ironing board up then pulled out my sewing machine and stash. If I had no where to set up and be able to walk away and shut the door, I wouldn't be sewing. I do like your kitchen and hope your DH gets your room completed for you soon.

I use to use my dining room to sew. It is more like a nook than a dining room but it worked.

My husband has dinning room table covered with his junk, so I don't have even the dinning room table, someday! He also has one spare bedroom full of his "stuff" he does nothing with. Oh to have my own room, I would think I went to heaven.

I turned a bedroom into a sewing room when we moved in. Unfortunately, there isn't enough room for everything. so I bought a curio cabinet and filled it with fabric. I placed it in there according to color, and it looks pretty good. I guess I'm like a lot of others, I have sewing supplies in just about every room. It might not be right, but it works for me.

I used our dining room to sew. I bought an old buffet that had a space for serving platters and such (cabinet doors) that was large enough for my sewing machine, cutting mat, and ironing pad so I could put everything away at the end of the day. It was not ideal because I had to put everything away, but having a nice sturdy dining room table (that was quite large) was great for tackling a project. Now that my GS has moved out, I use that spare bedroom as a sewing room. It is nice to leave everything out!

Those people - like my husband - that think they have to eat at the kitchen TABLE, for pete's sake!!!! There is a perfectly good coffee table in the living room that he can use!

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QuiltingNtheRain, YES I quilt in my dining room. And not just when I have a project going - pretty much all the time. We have a small round kitchen table in the kitchen for our family meals. But I need to clean out the dining room before family gatherings and book club. OK, that's the plain ugly truth!! :) See my computer screen on? That's on your post, I did not take time to straighten up. I took the picture as soon as I read your post.

I have NOT found a great way to keep things organized. I don't have a good place to store it when I have to clean it up. I have NO hope of getting a room for my quilting. I also have work items that I need to keep and some of them are on the floor right now beside the dining room table. I was going to clean it up so I can have friends over this weekend. I just found out it's only 2 of them, I know them well, they don't have the quilting/crafting bug and are both very tidy. BUT, we'll have the living room and kitchen.

In the picture, you can see my chair, I got a comfortable one because I just need it. See the dining room chairs stacked in the corner? They stay that way until I need them for company. There were just too many and the room is too small. To the left of my chair is the big ironing board. It's only up because I had some yardage that needed to be pressed. Usually I have a tv tray set up there with a small ironing board on top of it. You'll see a portable tv. It's for movies only. I can also stream on the laptop while I sew. I'm putting the binding on a snowball quilt, using my featherweight. The half-squares of red/white and green/white are leaders and enders (Bonnie Hunter's String Fling). Over on the buffett (to the right) you can see a binder laid out. It has my information for the Dear Jane I'm also working on. Just under the dining room table I have three stackable bins, maybe 10X15 and 8" deep that have some fabric and my completed DJ blocks.

So, there you have it and I'm so glad there's someone else out there still sewing on the dining room table! :)

PS The single best thing I have is the white plastic cart (to the left of the china cabinet). It is great for storing all my supplies (i.e. extra needles, pins, thread, fray check, hot glue gun, machine quilting supplies (pins, etc.). It has see through drawers which helps and I also label the front of each drawer.

Good luck.

CindyA and all; Pretty much that is the way my dinning room table looks. I have two rooms of storage upstairs, not all quilting stuff.

Suits me,

My DH was so creative when he did my sewing room, he went to the local 'Restore', habitat for humanity's retail branch, (we are on fixed incomes and they have very low prices.) and bought upper and lower kitchen cupboards and drawers and installed them in our third bedroom so I have more storage in there now than I do in my kitchen. this has created a new problem though, fabric addiction satisfaction....lol!

I also use the dining room table for sewing and cutting. My husband is building a cabinet for me that will hold my sewing machine and serger, and then I'll move into the guest room to sew.

I'm so excited - it's going to look like this:

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I use my dining room for sewing as well.

Well I meant to post more before I hit enter, oh well. The cabinet I got off Craigs List and the Ironing table is actually a Baby's dressing table. My hubby redid it to be an ironing board, with storage!! Love my little area.

I use to sew in my dining room but out lived it. That is why I am in the process of making my very own space that I can shut off to the world. No one will know or see all my stuff all over...LOL...

When I first started sewing, I used the dining table. It was okay because I had no stash. I would buy just enough fabric for one quilt at a time. Then my daughter moved out and I used the spare bedroom. My kids came home quite often, so I only had a corner of the room. Years went by and my kids moved farther away and came home less often, so I gave away the bedroom set and took over the entire spare room. Now my stash runneth over. I don't have a free inch left. The kids sleep on the couch, after complaining "How could you kick us out of the room" and me saying "You come home twice a year, get over it". Now I'm looking at houses to buy that have a big family room for my quilting room. I've outgrown the spare bedroom! I've found some that have built-in cupboards even!

Started out using the DR table to cut, then to store buckets of stash under, then the chairs.... Need I continue. Now the whole room is MINE. Oh I do let the DH use the computer in there since he pulled up the carpeting and laid down hardwood floors, then built three walls of cabinets with drawers.....
It sits off the kitchen and the living room and is not always an unsightly mess (HA) but I can walk away and not worry about picking up when finished for the day. We are two pet parents, so no need for worrying about guests. Only guests who ever get to see are quilting buddies and they tatally support my add er habit er hobby.
Love to all on this site who inspire and comfort me.
Pegeth

Dining Sewing
 

I sure do. I have a dedicated sewing room, but I normally have more than one project going at a time. SO, since I'm a guilt free sewer (divorced, grown kids) I can do what I want with my home.. AND of course since it IS the dining area, I recommend Chocolate and Wine with your sewing.

when i came off the road and back home, i bought a storage shed to turn into a sewing room. Then family moved in and it is a storage shed, never got to be a sewing room. one day they will leave. maybe.
so i am in a small bedroom, it is sufficient i guess. more than i had when i was on the road.

I was in a 8x28 travel trailer. had 3 machines with me. the majority of my cutting, pinning, basting and sewing was done on the picnic tables in the rv parks. that was wild and alot of fun.

now i may wind up back on the road. the job market here is really bad, i may wind up back with my old company traveling and working again. i think i've rested enough for it to be fun again.

I give you all credit for being able to use your dining room to quilt. True quilters. Quilt wherever it works for you. Me on the other hand get crazy when the throw pillow on a couch is not exactly in the right place. My quilting needs to be in its own place where I could walk out and close the door when I am done. If things are out of place, I need to straighten it all out before I start to sew again. Yikes!!! What do they call that??

Through the years I've sewn all over the house. We bought a 12 X 16 barn type storage building about 5 years ago for my sewing/canning room. Well, we wound up with a chest type freezer, a gas cook stove and my canning supplies along with my sewing machines. Gradually DH started putting some of his stuff in it until it became too crowded. So when I bought my short arm quilting machine with a 12 foot table we bought another storage building. This one came with insulation, it was a repo building and is a 12 X 20. I set my foot down about him putting some of his stuff in it. It's strictly for my sewing. But I still have two industrial sewing machines in the original building that I don't have room for in the newer building.

I've been reading through all these posts about sewing in various rooms, tables, closets, blah blah blah . . .THEN . .finally someone like me, coastienest !!! I can't even warm up soup if the sink has dirty dishes, so how could I ever sew in anyting but a pristine working area!! LOLOLLL !! I am getting a little better lately. I am finally able to have two projects going at once, even tho they are both rag quilts for the GS & GD. DH & I share hobby space in the sunroom where the natural light is great all day. I cut and press in the dining area few steps away. I'ts cozy & we both like the set-up.

I sew in the dining room. One bedroom apt. I'm getting set up still, so no great pics or magnificent ideas...yet...

My hubby did find a sewing table at Joann today that folds up flat for storage, so we got that for my sewing/cutting table. Have to see if it works great. Hope it does. :-) I'm pretty excited to see how this all comes together. I like the idea of finding a way to make the dr a permanent sewing room. We're not really an eat-at-the-table family anyway... ;-)

My dining room and living room are my 'sewing room' right now. No pictures allowed!

Lucky me, my DH also has messy hobbies, so can't/won't say anything about it. On the other hand, I do try to keep the mess to a minimum.

Good news! My hubby took the new table out of the box & set it up. Found out later his motive was to get me to start cleaning & organizing...well, it worked. :-) he moved my plastic organizers against the wall, and I did some more putting away and organizing. The table isn't perfect-we'll have to modify a bit, but it's good enough. And I'm SUPER excited to be able to use the dining table for cutting and my new table for sewing. :-D

Congrats, Peachs...enjoy!

I sew in a corner of my dining room. My house is 1400 sq ft and I have two kiddos so very little extra space anywhere. This works great for me. We can still eat at our table every night for dinner. I've quilted a large lap quilt (72x80) with this set up. Just set up my ironing board to the left of my machine for support.

I keep a few supplies in one of the drawers of my hutch. All my extra fabric is in the bedroom closet. I have a six ft table I take out when I need to sandwich my quilts.

Hope the the picture comes through. The sewing table I got on Craig's list for$15. The other one to the left was a desk my children got from their grandfather.

here's a pic of what we have so far. the panels behind the table are for the design/basting wall, and everything's mobile. we have a little round table that i can use for cutting pieces and holding the tackle box (sewing supplies)
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Thanks to all you who showed pictures of your space, I'm not the only one who pulls out for a week and moves it back. I'm still laughing at comments, sound familiar. My DH has a tendency to leave things lie and expects me to clean up, amazing how fast he complains when I move something and forget where it is, then tells me I shouldn't move his stuff. I'm in the process of moving my sewing items upstairs to (the dumping ground) where I initially tried to create a sewing room. It is somewhat organized (in my mind), and I am working through it. I've been sewing in the living room for nearly 2 years on a 6' folding table and need to get the table out of there so I can set up a 30" square quilt frame and finish a quilt for my son. I vow not to bring the table back down even if it forces me to clean up that room, but I also won't have to run up and down stairs for misc. quilt supplies.