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

button, button, who's got the button?

I like to use BIG buttons when making purses. Either as a button and loop closure or just decorative with a magnetic clasp. At work the other day the liquidator ran a ten minutes special....all cards of buttons just 2 for a dollar. Employees were able to take advantage at the end of their shift. Big buttons can be expensive sometimes. Some of these would have cost me $4.50 a piece. I think I did good!

My View from the sewing room window

When I blogged about my sewing room the other day someone asked what the view was like as I look out over my machine. This is it folks. Of course it changes. The lilac bush on the right has finished blooming. After the iris fade there will be yellow lilies and in front of one of those trees is an old fashioned rose bush. It's on the cool side of the house in the afternoon so no direct sun shining in on me. The little birds like to sit on the Scottie there and the weather vane and chirp. Pleasant working conditions wouldn't you say?



My sewing workspace

...we'll save the office/modeling center for later!
Way back in February I posted about the sorry state that my sewing room was in. You can refer to the posting if you want but beware!!!! you could get lost in a pile of fabric! http://scottieacres.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-cant-stand-it-anymore.html Well I have made some changes and cleaned up a bit until I go on another fabric frenzy looking for just the right piece. Just follow the photos and you'll understand. First one is looking into the room from the door way. Outside the windows is a really lovely view with birds and flowers and trees. My main machine is right there in the middle of the windows. To the right is my trusty Singer and the Babyloc serger. I had to move the old Windsor treadle out as I needed room for the cutting table.And here is the cutting table! I have a custom baby quilt in process sitting on it. Room for bin storage (fabric ) underneath and it is on casters.
Yup....that is the guest bed. As soon as a guest leaves I wind up using it for projects in process.


This is the left side of the closet that runs the length of the wall. Six bins of cottons and flannels and chenille, quilt batting and pillow forms and some rolls of double knit fabrics I just couldn't resist. (they have Scotties on them) That garbage bag just in front is full of vintage chenille spreads that I just got to cut up for projects.

Right side of the closet with more cottons and flannels. In the space between the two (behind the wall the black forest cuckoo clock is hanging on) are bins with corduroy and Christmas fabrics.
Now where are all the rest of the fabrics and projects you ask? I had to hide them somewhere... This bin is Christmas...
Hubby's end of the walk in closet. Those two huge tubs are full of Scottie fleece.
My end of the closet...these are full of drapery type fabrics and suede.

In the guest bathroom shower/tub is another big bin of Scottie fleece

In my office shower that we never use....It has become storage for bins of fabrics and other projects and stuff that we just want handy but out of the way like the toilet paper and Kleenex.

Okay....so I have lots of fabric....most of it with Scotties on it. You just need to know where to look for it.