Boxing Day Moving

I moved my design wall downstairs tonight. It was a much easier job than I thought it would be - it always is. And I re-arranged and tidied the sewing room up a bit too. Tomorrow I have to get some marking done - then on to some sewing!

Cabinets with assorted fabrics - and dining room chair holding more fabric. I want to get a clothes drying rack to hold the fabric of works in progress.

Design wall - directly opposite cabinets

work table - in doorway to dining room, between cabinets and design wall. Switched the locations of ironing board and work table - like it much better.

Progress?

Work has been crazy busy in the last few weeks and I've been working on trying to finish my house renovations.

I'm moving my sewing room down to the main floor this weekend and I'm super excited about it.

I think I took these photos over a week ago - but I haven't gotten any sewing in since then so they're current.

another pair of baby shoes for a friend

my design wall with rows D and E of Dear Jane

Last time I tried to sew my cat and I fought over who would sit in the sewing chair; we ended in a tie

a Dear Jane block

another Dear Jane

the most recent Dear Jane

Design Wall Monday & A Clean(er) Sewing Room

Yesterday I set out with high hopes to clean and tidy my sewing room so I could be more efficient since everything would be organized and easy to find. That lasted about 2 hours yesterday and .5 today. Then I was tired of that and decided to just start sewing.
Here's the tidying progress:

a little better

the cardboard boxes are in clear bins and labelled - bottom left

I got back to Dear  Jane then. I had high hopes to do a ton of sewing this weekend - I ended up with 2 hours tonight; sometimes the best laid plans...

B5

 

And here is my (emptier) design wall:

Apr 1

It looks kinda sad and lonely - hopefully my tidying pays off with a little more efficiency in the sewing room.

I'm linking up to Patchworktimes too.

Design Wall Monday

These are all my Dear Jane blocks for this month - 10 in total. I'm happy with how they turned out. They'll likely come off the design wall in a day or two to make room for something else. Dear Jane class is next Saturday so I can almost pack them in the bag for class.

February 18th

I'm linking up to Patchworktimes and will pop over later to see what everyone else has on their design wall. It's one of my favourite blog posts of the week.

Design Wall Monday

Now that I have a design wall I want to post about what's on it.  This is my Dear Jane progress for the month of February. I still have 2 triangle blocks to go and almost 2 weeks to finish them.

I'm linking up to Patchwork Times too.

I made a design wall

I have wanted one of these for awhile. I used this tutorial by Elaine and bought the flannel from her too!
My foam insulation is purple, from Home Depot - 1" x 24" x 96" and I trimmed off a little more than 10" so it would fit in my space. I had to get a friend with a van to help me get it from the store. They were around $14 each. All together it cost about $40 for the materials and took about 2 hours.

sewing room before the design wall

taping on the flannel to the insulation

design wall up with one lonely quilt block on it

I put the ironing board back in front of the design wall, cause I don't have any other place for it (yet).