July 13, 2018

Creative Spaces Blog Hop • Week One • Studio Clean-up

Welcome to my stop during week one on the Creative Spaces Blog Hop.

Each week 16 designers will be posting on their blogs with a theme or concept to guide their posts. This week: Studio Clean-up: before and after.

This week’s post got a little interesting for me. I don’t have a large and beautiful work space in which to sew and design. I just moved my studio recently, so it’s definitely been a work in progress. In fact, much of my “clean-up” consisted of unpacking.

I’m renting this space and there are some things that I wish I could change, but can’t. [It’s definitely not a studio that would get posted on pinterest for inspiration– that’s for sure!] For now, I’m just trying to organize it to best suit my needs. Not being a huge quilter, my sewing needs are very different from those who primarily quilt.

Here are my before pictures. This is shortly after moving most things in. I placed my cutting table in the middle of that wall to allow me to easily work from 3 sides, with my little miss dressform standing near by.

Literally just moved in. I placed the sewing machine table under the window for now and some bookcases on the remaining wall.

Here is the after pictures, a little prettier and feeling a bit more like my space.

I unpacked most of my tools and small supplies. Drafting paper and Swedish tracing paper are now accessible. Current projects are pinned up so they don’t get misplaced 😉

Machine, thread, and serger are in place and ready to go 🙂

It does look better, and it includes many important, personal touches, but I’d like to make it feel more warm and lovely. Hanging some of my mini quilts, finding a curtain that fits, and painting the walls will help a lot. But one of my favorite dolls is on display and I feel like it’s a good start.

This is a cross stitch I made for my youngest daughter when she was little (it used to hang in her room) and the dragon picture drawn by that same daughter when she was 10 has always been part of my studio decor.

Sadly, the frame for this tea party cross stitch broke in the move. I made this cross sttich while I was pregnant with my first baby (I knew I was having a girl). I hung it in my daughter’s nursery before she was born; now that she’s 22, it hangs in my studio.

I will need to find a new frame for it. My plan is to hang some of my doll quilts along with it.

I put these 2 pieces up right away because of their obvious motivational properties 🙂 My youngest daughter made these for me a long time ago. She drew the Rarity for me during her My Little Pony phase, because she’s a dress designer like me. Back then I sewed most of her clothes and she loved it ♥

I have some nice things that students have made and given to me over the years, but they are still in boxes. I need to get them out to help motivate me –to make this space more colorful and more “me.”

Thank you for taking this short tour of my space in which I create.

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