Your Quilting Space Is Probably Not Big Enough
I came across the article “The Quintessential Quilting Roomâ€? at the OrlandoSentinal.com. Maybe I am just being a little jealous but how many people actually have this kind of space to devote to a whole sewing room. The article actually said that “Don’t pick the tiniest room in the house as your sewing space. The room should be a minimum of 20-by-16 feet with a ceiling at least 9 or 10 feet.â€? It also said that you should have a table 60â€? x 84â€? and it should not be against a wall which explains why the room should be so big.
After moving from a house that didn’t have a room this size I didn’t get one in my condo either. In fact I took over the dining room, ½ the bedroom, a corner of the living room and even the garage. I have only known only one person who got her dream sewing room when her new house was built and it was even bigger than what is suggested here and had every piece of equipment you could dream of except for a long arm machine.
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.
So, are you lucky enough to have a whole entire room that fits the dimensions of the article or do you make do using various organizational strategies to make the most of your space?
quilting, sewing room, sewing space
October 30th, 2007 at 8:13 am
It’s great to have a big space for our projects, but I thing that large size is overrated. No matter how big a space is, I’d fill it up. Even though I’d like to be able to get to all my supplies in one place, I don’t think having a giant 20×16 room would affect my skill level, color choices, or type of projects I plan to do…
I have always had a tiny kitchen and I’ve managed full holiday meals with all the trimmings. Recommendations like this sort of scare people away from trying out sewing. It’s as though they have to have tons of supplies and space to get started. I started out using my sewing machine on our coffee table and it worked out.