Do You Have a Sewing Room?
While surfing the Internet I found an article about sewing rooms on a Maine newspaper website. “Sewing Room Making Quiet Comeback” makes the argument that builders need to start putting the sewing room back into houses when planning them. The author also discusses what many of us sewers/quilters/crafters have already been doing. Her observations of the creative spaces of various women sounds very familiar.
We creative types will find almost anywhere to put a sewing machine, design wall and hordes of supplies. I grew up in a very small house with a creative mother who grew up during the depression. The house was not equipped with a sewing room. My mom set up her machine in her bedroom, basket of yarn in the living room and her cutting table was the kitchen table (we didn’t have a dining room). When I had a house, I had an extra bedroom that was my sewing/craft room. Now, I live in a condo and I use what is supposed to be the dining room (we eat in the kitchen like I did when I was a kid).
I have only met one woman that designed a house with a sewing room which was the size of many garages. She had kitchen-type cabinets, a huge cutting and sewing table in the middle of the room which had more storage under it, and a custom pressing surface. It is one of my dreams to have such a place. What about you? Do you have such a place or do you use the multiple spare corners of wherever you can get?
quilting, sewing room, sewing space
July 19th, 2007 at 7:39 am
I tried to make a sewing area in my dreary basement, but it was awful working down there. I keep my cold storage fabrics and other craft supplies down in the basement and I have the sewing machine up in the dining room too. We eat in the kitchen (or outside)except on holidays or if we have house guests. I also have active supply storage as a bedside table. This is where I keep all my embroidery supplies, crochet and felt.
October 27th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
[...] Although, I am very impressed that a newspaper saw fit to publish an article about quilting at all, I feel they were only aiming at large home owners who have unlimited retirement funds to set up their perfect space and overall the article wasn’t very helpful. You can find more helpful information online at various quilting and sewing sites. One website I found has a group of pictures of several different sewing rooms. I would love to have a room of my own and am all for bringing back the sewing room to homes as mentioned in an earlier posting. [...]