Five Shadows

Happy New Year Everyone!

I thought I’d bring in the New Year by giving a little tour of my studio. I am mainly a quilter, which shows up here! Over the past couple of years I’ve played with some fiber art and this year I’ve signed up for Mary Ann Moss’ Remains of the Day on-line class. Find info for her classes on her blog, Dispatch From LA. I’m so excited about taking her class! I’m also joining Julie of Balzer Designs for her Art Journal Every Day project. I’ve signed up for January and will consider doing so one month at a time. This year will find me dabbling in art journaling. I’ve seen many bloggers proclaiming “I am an Artist!” Don’t think I’m there yet, but hope to be able to proclaim that one day!

Enjoy the tour!

My studio is in a former bedroom with built-in bunk beds, two built-in desks and one dresser. As you walk down a long hallway here is the view into the room.

I’ve divided the 14′ x 24′ room in half with an office partition. As you enter the room, on the right is the ‘office’ area. The computer table backs the partition. The bunk beds on this side of the room serve as a daybed on the bottom, (great for late night computer movie watching) and the top bunk is storage for fabric and supplies for commissioned quilts waiting my attention.

As you look to the left, this is my sewing area. My cutting table/cabinet is backed up against the partition (I’ll show another angle of it later in this post.) Here you see the sewing machine on a desk, and shelves with quilt books, thread rack, misc love items. The most recently completed quilt top hangs at the bunk beds and nicely covers up a jumble of supplies!

Moving on around the room to the left of the bunk beds, is the ironing board (not in photo) at a back window (where I can watch the wildlife activity in the back yard). Just to the left of the window is a walk-in closest used mostly by my husband and housing some of my batting, you can just see the closet door on the right of the photo. Then there are two book cases, the books are my hubby’s and the fabric collection is mine! (The dark hallway on left is our starting point of the tour. Photo taken looking back across room from where the sewing machine is located.)

Standing at the ironing board and looking across the room, you can see the large white cabinet in front of the office partition. The cabinet top is my cutting area. Perfect height for me! Love it! I was able to purchase the cabinet from a quilt shop that went out of business. File cabinets hold patterns, etc.

Tis the end of the tour! Hope you enjoyed it!