Showing posts with label sewing machines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sewing machines. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 May 2010

A room of one's own

Thought I might get on a bit quicker with the sewing if I tidied up.  I'm really lucky that this house has room for a sewing room (half the huge utility room) and I also have a small office - one's in the basement and one's at the top of the house so it would keep me fit if I ever got enough time to use them both as I would like! Anyway, here are some pictures of my (more or less) tidy sewing room

I do have the fabric  to make curtains to go all the way round under the work surface which would tidy everything up no end.  The table extends to about 5 foot so I've plenty of work space.  This is slightly less than half the room - the other end is full of washing machine, dryer, freezer, bird food, spare loo rolls - you get the picture.  My sewing machine is about 40 years old - husband bought it for me before we were married and it's only needed one repair since, despite bouts of heavy use - sewing costumes for school plays out of strange shiny fabric tested its patience.  I do have a newer one, but it never seems to do what I want and is difficult to thread so it's on loan to daughter.  I've no excuse really but to get on and finish the sewing I've committed to  - quite a long list has accumulated over the past few months.  Hopefully, better weather will get the washing outside to dry - sewing with the dryer going isn't fun.

Did manage to finish these:-



But have been trying to get some more yarn to finish this, without much success.


I only need one ball, so to buy it online I need to want some other things to justify the postage.  I hope next Monday isn't like last week, I might make some progress then!

Hope you're all having a good weekend, weather is quite bright here.