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Originally Posted by nerdymom  Now if you're talking a proper sewing ROOM, my grandmother has a nice space. She keeps her fabrics in old dressers and plastic totes (she has a lot!) and she has a long folding banquet table that her straight stitch machine is on, and another smaller table with her serger. My grandfather made her a thread holder out of a smooth piece of lumber and he fixed small wooden pegs to it. He mounted it on the wall ove her serger. She also has overhead wire shelves for bolts of fabric. Notions are kept in rolling plastic bins (the ones with lots of little drawers). She has a case for her scissors, and she keeps a small sewing basket with her essentials (seam ripper, measuring tapes, 8" shears, marking paper and wheel, rotary cutter, etc.) and a magnetized pin cushion all on her straight stitch table. The far end of that table has a cutting mat on it and she uses it to piece quilt blocks and etc. In the other room she has the ironing board, extra fabric storage, and a large, high cutting table.
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NICE!
I took over half of my husband's office
I set up a large folding table and set my machine on one end, and keep my sewing baskets on the other end. I started with a small basket which quickly overflew with notions and just recently started stowing items in snapboxes. Ribbons are in their own recycled cardboard box. Fabric and patterns are stowed on bookshelves, along with books
and the manual for my machine and some "how to" books. As an advanced novice, I find these to be the most essential parts of my sewing room
The iron and board are set up behind my table and I have to remember to stow the iron most days because DD (18 mo) will come and play in the room when I just have to finish a project
Current projects end up all over (neatly, of course) the sofabed. The closer to the sewing table, the more likely I am to work on the project.
ETA: My next purchase is going to be a rotary cutter and big self healing mat. I can't believe I've gone this long without.
