I do my piecing in a little tiny bedroom that I made into my studio and I share it with my jewelry making addiction as well. There is so much stuff crammed into this little room that I have to move the chair and the ironing board aside to get in and out of the room. LOL. I lay out the pieces on the dining room rug after I move some furniture around and then run up and down the stairs as I sew the blocks and rows together. If it's a big piece it goes out to be LA quilted. If it's something I can handle then I sandwich it on the dining room table and then upstairs to sew. When I had kids at home and all bedrooms were in use I used to sew on my dining room table and that room was always a mess with an on-going project. My absolute fantasy is to have a huge studio room with a place for everything and everything in it's place.

We live in an early 1800s house. There are four bedrooms up and one down now and just the two of us. I took the "girls" bedroom and gave the antique bedroom suite to my step-daughter, since it was her g'ma's and it's now my sewing room. I have a lot of cleaning up to do upstairs, so may move a guest bed back in, but there'll still be room to set up a quilting frame, for my materials and other sewing paraphernalia. I do just go up and sew and don't drag my quilting downstairs anymore in a hoop. It's my hide-a-way and it's peaceful and sissy up there. I can look through the lace curtains as I sew at the countryside.

I find that how much I sew or quilt is directly proportional to not having to take my stuff down every day and put it back up. The ultimate luxury and I'm thankful for it.

I live in a split level house so I took over the downstairs family room as a sewing room after DH died and my daughter moved out. I have lots of space, but it isn't very well organized. All those plastic bins of fabric look really tacky and are overflowing. I need to figure out some better storage solution.

In the second floor loft in our house (see pictures via link) And, yes, I DO know how lucky I am!

Annie

Here is a link that might be useful: http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/270935232UVXMVf

Love it. Carole

So do I! After making do for many years, it's such a wonderful luxury to have a space dedicated to quilting.

Annie

I have a room too. Not as nice as Annie is but it will be when I get it all finished.

Amy

At our old place, I just set up the sewing maching at the foot of the guest bed in our second bedroom. If people came to stay, I had to stash everything in the closet where it barely fit. In our new house, I am lucky enough to have a space downstairs where I can leave things set up, with even a design wall.

When I was working, in order to spend time with DH in the evenings and also to get some quilting in, I set up my sewing area in the back part of the living room and DH put shelves in the big 'closet' where the washer and drier was supposed to go for my fabric...it's on the way back wall and is overflowing. Since I'm no longer working, I'm leaving it where it is cause I like to be able to see outside through the 3 sliding glass doors that are there. I think I'd feel closed in if I had to set back up in an out of the way place. I need wide open spaces.....and don't want to miss any action....and....I don't really care what anyone thinks when they come into 'my' house.

SharonG/FL-IN

I have a 10x10 former bedroom that I have turned into my sewing room. It is cramed full and poorly organized but it is mine. When I need to baste a quilt I do it on my extended dinning room table. If it is too large I either use the floor or send it to a long arm quilter. I quilt small items in the sewing room, larger ones on the dinning room table if I am using a machine. By hand I usually work in the living room with a hoop. I do have a lg. floor frame which I have set up to do lg. quilts by hand in the dinning room but it is a hassle as I have to keep it up and rearrange the room so I don't like to use it.
A dream would be to have room large enough to have a long arm machine, and my quilt frame set up along with a big quilt wall, all the sewing machines available as well as a lg. cutting table.. Dream on Jayne

I use a spare bedroom where my machine and cutting table are. I added five shelves to a double size closet and my fabric is in the closet.

I like to sew on the dining room table when I'm working on a large quilt so I can spread out. Right now I'm working on a landscape quilt and I'm still in the dining room, LOL.

Jayne, I share your dream!!!

I have a white folding table in the family room that I put my machines on and I have tubs and boxes of fabric EVERYWHERE. It is a wonder that my family puts up with me. We are in the process of remodeling the four bedrooms and one will be my sewing room when that project is finished but........my husband is on a gardening kick. It could be years.

Vicky~

Annie, I had to tell myself to close my mouth after looking at your sewing room. WOW (hushed reverence).

2 of the three bedrooms in my house are hobby rooms. One is for DH's music and the "guest room" is mine with a Hollywood bed, computer station and craft closet. I set up my machine in the kitchen because of the great lighting in there. Now that's it's just the two of us, we eat in the living room.

I did, at one point, have a 4x8 cutting table and sewing machine console in the guest room (prior to the bed) but I kept drifting into the kitchen (Go to the light, Carolanne, go to the light!).

I have a very scientific way of deciding what goes to the longarm quilter--I only baste projects that fit on my kitchen table. The rest go out to be done.

Dianne

I sew in what originally was the master bedroom.The room is 15x22,and for several years dh worked out of town and used to commute 1 1/2 hours each way back and forth.Then we decided that was too dangerous,driving the freeways when you were tired after working 10 to 12 hour shifts.So he took our 5th wheel to the town he worked in and got into a mobile home type park.

So it was just me in this big old room,so i told him i was gonna switch my sewing room with my bedroom.He was very doubtful i could do it, Silly man!! So while he was at work i got out the graph paper,tape measure and figured everything out,and by the time he came home again i had everything moved,and did most of it by myself.I did call my son to help me with the mattresses.Of course i had to hear him say why didn't you call me earlier to help you.

Anyway i fit the bedroom furniture into the other room and for awhile i had to turn the night stands side ways,and there wasn't a lot of extra room,then again,i didn't need extra room ,all i did was sleep in there.

Later on i downsized to a queen size bed,so now have more room.

I still have my sewing room in what WAS the master bedroom.I have my sewing desk,a computor desk,both are 60x30,2 pantry cabinets,an 8 ft cutting table,2 different stacks of bookcases,and we won't count how many of those plastic drawers on wheels.

Then my #3 son came and put shelves throughout the closet.So i have lots of room to play with all my toys.LOL
There are pictures of it somewhere on this board,if i remember correctly.
Kathi

I started out with a 2 car garage, which I used for upholstering furniture. I have a massive cutting table my husband built (60 x 96"), with a shelf below the cutting surface. That's a lot of storage.

Seriously, if I could cut that table in half on the 96" length, I absolutely would! The table was just right for upholstery - I needed to roll out 56" wide fabric that length to mark the pieces.

I don't need that much table area for quilting. But the table is made of welded steel, not easy to cut it down. It is on casters, so I can shove it where I want, and it does have a shelf on the bottom.

I also have the sewing machine in a Koala table, with a serger on a side wing of the table.

The long-arm machine takes up a full side of the garage, and when I'm quilting, I shove the big table towards the regular sewing machine, just to make enough room.

Still, I love my room. It's contained, so I don't have to put anything away. It holds all my equipment. It has a room air-conditioner (absolutely necessary in central Texas!). My only problem is that the DH is still storing plumbing, painting, and electrical supplies on the shelves in there - I know I could fill them neatly in about 5 minutes.

Mary

The smallest bedroom in our house is now my studio (quilting/sewing/scrapbooking/stamping). It's all crammed into a space of about 10x10. Was going to be craft room/computer room until DH did some math & realized that there was NO way that our computer hutch & filing cabinet was going to fit in that room with all MY stuff, too. hehe. We took out the carpet & redid the floor, so my large cutting mat can stay on the floor.

Now that I have my "studio", my stuff rarely sees any part of the house unless it's handwork...& then I do it in front of the TV.

If it's bigger than I can do in my studio, (clean) floor space or kitchen table, then I wait until quilt night at church to tape & pin baste it there.