Sewing Studio Update

Work is progressing on my sewing studio... not much sewing happening though....

From my Getting It Done List for January:

7.  Rennovations - This room is really long... its almost 30' by 10'6" at one end, and 8'9" at the other end.  It has 4 doors (one to a cold storage room, one to the bath room, and two to hallways) and is a weird shape!  But it will be great to have all my sewing stuff all in the same room (not 3 rooms plus the hallway!)

• Empty both Rooms  DONE

• Remove carpets, wall, one door  DONE

• Rewire, possibly adding a sub-panel for the room and better lighting.  Wiring Done, sub-panel ready for wiring

• Frame in closet, buy a closet door. Closet framed, need to buy door.  I have just enough of the flooring from the hallway to match the flooring.  It will mean some piecing, but its only 6 square feet!

• (I think there is some discussion about insulation and the ceiling.... but.... that takes time....)  No Insulation, just another layer of drywall

• Patch Drywall, Repaint  Currently Patching walls, and re-gyprocking the ceiling.

• Re-floor (maybe some in-floor heating?)  No infloor heating, but a new baseboard heater.  I will install new laminate wood flooring with cork underlay.

• Move Stuff!  This won't happen in January!!!!

My 9yo daughter was a great help today... when
she got bored she started drawing on the wall....

New Ceiling -- 5 sheets of new drywall.
Looking towards the longarm area

The New Wall -- its a closet into the hall
We took out the "extra" doorway (didn't need 3 doors!)
And it'll give me a storage closet for winter clothes.

Looking towards the area that will home my sewing machines

This week progress

We have started remodelling our basement so I can have all my supplies in one room. It started with just one part of the room, but after thinking about it, I thought, why not remove the wall and have one large sewing area, instead of one room for the longarm and another for the sewing machines (down the hall). As it turns out that was a good decision, as with 3 doors in the room and it being fairly narrow (8'9") I wouldn't have had much storage around a 10' frame for the longarm machine.

Last week the kids and I started by removing carpet and one side of the wall, and this week we have all worked together and now the room is apart and we are running electrical lines and installing new lights.

Today I was going to do some running around looking for some items needed for my new sewing studio, but my husband suggested I stay home and sew...  Great Idea!  But the first task was finding the sewing surface. This room was a mess due to not cleaning up and from adding all the buckets of fabric from their old storage location....  So the first couple of hours I organized and found some of the projects I wished to work on....

And for tonights Quilt Guild meeting, I completed the following Block of the Month. Unfortunately I didn't win the 16 completed blocks... they all looked great!

At Quilt Guild tonight, we had a Jelly Roll race Challenge!  My partner and I finished our top....  These quilts will be donated to the hospice for the beds.

Our completed top!

Some of the other tops

Our Top

Fabric for Starburst Quilt A Long

I also chose some fabrics for the Starburst Quilt A Long over at Happy Quilting. I'm just trying to decide on a cream or white background fabric....