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k3n 08-02-2010 07:53 AM


Originally Posted by mosquitosewgirl
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing! For those in the US here's the link for the Ikea table. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60045393 It is definitely going on my Christmas wish list.

It looks like you used two back to back?

Yes I did, thanks for putting up the US link. :-D

kathy 08-02-2010 08:12 AM

oh you lucky, lucky girl!

mawmawbeve_60 08-02-2010 08:34 AM

Great Space...love your quilt hangers..

PurplePassion 08-02-2010 08:50 AM

OMG !! Can I move in? I will share my stash.

k3n 08-02-2010 08:59 AM


Originally Posted by mawmawbeve_60
Great Space...love your quilt hangers..

49p each from Ikea - think that's around 75c. :wink:

Purplepassion - anyone bringing stash is admitted! especiallly if they also bring wine. :mrgreen:

Ms. Shawn 08-02-2010 09:07 AM


Originally Posted by k3n
Hello everyone, I recently moved back to England after 5 years of living in France and our new home is an old school teacher's house with school room attached. Guess what the old school room has become? :mrgreen:

It's around 15' square with large casement windows in the east and west walls so lots of natural light but no direct sun. There's a half glazed door to the old school playground at the back of the house, a door into the old school cloakroom and a further door through into the living room of the main house. The floor is cork which is warm and soft on my feet (I'm a barefoot sew-er!) and easy to clean. The ceiling is nice and high which gives a feeling of space and the room for a design wall 8' high. (I keep a step ladder in the attached cloakroom so I can reach the top if necessary!)

Hans, my DH put in the worktops on an 'L' so that my new Janome table would sit in the corner created. This gives space to the left and behind for when I'm quilting. The little drawers to the right of my machine are on wheels (they hold threads, bobbins and machine feet, tools and so on). These I can pull round to the left to give more support to a large quilt when doing FMQ.

My cutting table is two Ikea breakfast bar units placed side by side, giving a surface that is 6' long by just under 3' wide. Plastic tubs on the shelves underneath hold my stash and my cutters, templates and notions are in the drawers.

There are quite a few photos so please bear with me! Can you tell I LOVE my new room! In our French house, my room was little more than a cupboard - to quilt I had to move everything down onto the dining table, so this is something of an improvement! :lol:

WOW!!!OMG!!! Lucky Lucky!!!! Beautiful!!! :mrgreen: :shock: :-P ;-) :thumbup: :XD:

kacy 49 08-02-2010 09:10 AM

Oh my. What a wonderful space you have. I love it!!!

pookie ookie 08-02-2010 09:11 AM

Haven't seen a cutting table that good since art school. Hard to imagine it's two Ikea breakfast bars. Genius! Love the Ikea hanging rack, too. Heck, love it all.

Congrats on the wonderful converted school room.

pittsburgpam 08-02-2010 09:16 AM

OMG!! That is a wonderful room! I am so jealous of all that space and organization.

Congrats on the new home, and the new sewing room!

libbyb 08-02-2010 09:19 AM

I love it and you sounded just like me with the little sewing room, I just today moved my sewing machine to the dinning room.


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