My quilting spaces

I've blogged about this before but since I've had a bunch of questions recently, I thought I'd share some photos and descriptions of my quilting spaces and schedule it to post while I'm away.

All these photos were taken in April when we moved so the longarm room is messier and while the upstairs sewing room no longer has boxes and the shelves are full - right now it could use a good cleaning.

We live in a 3 story townhouse and I use the downstairs family room for the longarm. I have a Gammill Premier Plus on a 10 foot table that I downsized to from a Gammill Classic Plus on a 12 foot table 2 years ago when we moved to Minneapolis. Luckily, it meets my needs and the transition wasn't too difficult.

This room is also the *office* so I have my desktop computer, printer, and files down here. The longarm table has various bins underneath it but one of these days, I'm going to organize it like Deb has done with hers.

I just added track lighting down here and I love it - it's made a huge difference in the amount of light I have to work by and it's been great to be able to quilt on these nights I haven't been able to sleep.

The upstairs sewing room is the 2nd of two bedrooms and I get a lot of exercise running up and down the stairs between these two rooms.

As you come in the door, the sewing table is to the left - I sew on an Elna which is NOT set up in this photo, the cutting table is straight ahead - it's a buffet from an old dining room set that's the perfect height, and my shelves take up the entire wall to the right.

Looking back toward the door - this table collapses when not in use and I took the doors off the closet for easy access and storage.

The shelves are from Ikea and my favorite thing in my sewing room. I love the drawers that slip in the cubes - you can see two at the top left but I have at least 10 of them. Some hold knitting and crochet supplies and others hold fat quarters that are too small to put on the shelves. My books line the bottom and right side of the unit - I think they take up 13 or 14 of the cubes.

I still miss the studio we created for my quilting in Marietta. It was large, had great light, and everything was in one room BUT I know a lot of people would be happy to have just one room, much less two that are devoted to their quilting and I am grateful that Keith allows me to take up so much of our home just for me.