How's That Sewing Room Coming Along?

Today I decided I finally needed to move the new 6 cube cabinet I put together out of the middle of the living room and into the sewing room. I took the shelf and clothes rod out of the closet so I could fit one more unit in on top of the other two. Then I sorted my overflowing box of fabrics that I didn't have room for. These are fabrics not dedicated to some future project, real or imagined. If you look closely, you can see that there is a little extra space in a couple of the cubes. I'll have to do something about that. ;) For years I bought strictly batiks. Then, when I started making reproduction dolls, I got introduced to repro fabrics. I still haven't figured out what to do with all those batiks.




I also got started on my Gail Wilson Jane Austen doll. Here are the parts drying, after being painted with body color and hair basecoats. They are just about dry enough for the detail painting. Although you can't see it yet, this doll has such a sweet face. I still haven't picked out a fabric for the dress, but I can't wait to tackle the molded straw bonnet.

A Chance to Feel Better About Your Sewing Room

Well, just a week until Mother's Day. I'm sure many of you are frantically trying to finish those projects for Mom. And speaking of projects and my efforts to clean my sewing room, which is hampering my creativity (or that's my excuse, anyway,) here is a great video I was sent today. It's a tour of Scott Hansen of Blue Nickel Studio's sewing room I wonder if they were trying to tell me something? Anyway, if you want to feel better about your sewing space, watch this!



My plans for the day are to finish my report on Silk Production and Mills for my local Quilt History Group. I have a couple of articles I found from the mid-1800's with some wonderful etchings. I'll post a couple of them later. And I've almost finished my latest block from Sue Spargo's new BOM, and then it's on to the Gail Wilson Jane Austen Doll, all laid out and ready to go.

Finally!

My vacation is almost over, and I promised myself if I did nothing else, I would finally start my blog. I hope to document my quilting, dollmaking, needlework, my endless quest for organization, and probably include some of my boys' cat antics, too, and maybe an occasional recipe. I hope to improve my photography skills along the way. I've finished cataloging my quilt history books on my Readerware book inventory program this week. Next are my doll books, and then to find shelf space for them all! It will be nice not to have to walk around piles of them on the floor. I'm trying to get my sewing room to the point where Where Women Create would at least use it as a "before" photo. But organizing my sewing room is competing with wanting to get started on my new Gail Wilson Designs Jane Austen doll kit. Which will I chose?? Stay tuned....