Scrap Happy

The shepherd in my avatar was my Dad's dog and Dad had adopted her from a family that could no longer keep her so she was bounced around early on in life. She's a great dog.

Chantel41

One of my black persians will stand in the back of my machine, and drape his paws across the top of the machine, plop his head between his paws and go to sleep! He is the only one allowed in there (I sew in the living room in front of the TV) and I have a white persian that will "launch" the thread from the spool across the room. I think he is going for a personal best on a distance shot. My Mastiff will just calmly take something off the sewing table, usually my pin cushion. Gotta watch him, he is the thief.

quilter1943

Our dog, Rascal, had her bed under a table in my sewing room and a basket with her toys. She died several years ago so I put her can of ashes in the toy box and she's still under the table in my sewing room.

Olivia's Grammy

Now that my kitties are older (5) they don't bother anything. They do like to check out fabric, but that all and that's ok with me.

Betty Ruth

My Sleepy cat (that's his name as well as his usual occupation) can usually be found in the sewing room with me.
Most of the time he sits in the window behind my sewing machine and watches the birds and the squirrels in the oak tree outside. There are times, though, that he can be a regular nuisance. Sometimes, he wants to play the spool of thread on the sewing machine when I'm using it. He has even been known to try to catch the needle as it goes up and down. Sometimes he will decide it is nap time and lie down on whatever I'm sewing. It is quite difficult to move anything with a 12 pound lying on it. He is a very affectionate animal. If he thinks he hasn't had enough loving that day, he will force himself between me and whatever I'm working on and with purrs, head buts, and even light bites, force me to take time out for some mutual affection.

Nancy Rae

Never have I been able to keep Scruffy out of anywhere.

Wunder-Mar

Sassafras (my cat) has her own cushion beneath the sewing cabinet table; she also has her own window sill cushioned platform. She's very good at keeping to her designated areas.

RugosaB

I have basenjis, 5 now, the dog for people who like cats, and though they're allowed in the sewing room, it usually holds no fascination to them. From the time we were remodeling the room, we treated it like every other room in the house, meaning the door was left open, and they weren't chased out of there. Now that it's a sewing room, they don't care, because it's never been off limits.

I remember seeing on the web, a sewing room that they had actually built a lower cabinet area that had a dog crate! Darn if I can find it though, but when I googled, I came up with this site:
http://www.kevinandamanda.com/photos/den.html
They look nice,but my dogs would just chew them up, thinking mom got them a new toy!

drgranny

My two little dogs do this or lay on pillows close to my sewing chair. They just like to be close to me. They don't bother anything.

drgranny

that post was a mistake. will re-d0