Earlier this week we came up with a startling realization... our sewing room needed some help! Desperately! When we first began using the room specifically for sewing, Mom, Apphia, and Achaia were the basic ones who sewed. Three of us and three sewing machines. We had only two folding tables. With Abigail and Abiah getting older, they too, wanted to have room to sew. Two more girls and three or four machines later, and here we are. Something HAD to be done! It was getting more and more difficult to find enough room to do our sewing. Enter help-- Dad brought in another folding table and offered to buy us an ironing board that hooks to the wall and folds down. We did the organizing. Of course, we all know (at least this is the way we do it!) you've got to make a mess in order to clean it up properly. We weren't kidding when we said it needed help, were we?
Here we are working, working, working, discussing what needs to go where, and letting it slowly take shape...
It's looking much better now! (You can also take a peek under the table at one of our new fabric lines we just recently got)...
Another thing came to us... when we first had this as a sewing room, we wanted everything to be so pretty and decorative. Exit pretty and decorative-- Enter practicality and utilitarian. Now we can actually sew and enjoy it!
Looks like you all did a great job of getting organized..I am going to be teaching my 8 yr old to sew this year..I am soo excited!!
Posted by: Amity | January 11, 2008 at 02:18 PM
You gals did a great job reorganizing the sewing room. I have six daughters who each get their own sewing machine when they turn eight. So far three have their own and we LOVE to get ours out around the kitchen table and sew ,sew ,sew. Someday we'll have a sewing room....at least I hope so!
Posted by: Cocoa | January 11, 2008 at 07:23 PM
That useful sewing room looks just as good as the pretty one and it will always be great to be able to go in and go to work without moving and rearrangeing a ton of stuff to do it. I love the new look!
Posted by: Nan | January 12, 2008 at 06:13 AM
I followed a link from Apronista. Your aprons are so cute! I love the pleated design.
~elaine~
Posted by: Elaine L. | January 12, 2008 at 05:33 PM