The Great Craft Room Renovation is Complete!

After a  week of cleaning and renovating my craft room I'm ready to post photos!!  (and my computer is acting very strangely when I use blogger and underlining everything and not uploading photos properly, so I'll apologize right now for that).  These are the before photos, all my storage was a mish mash of Home Depot cubicles and shelving.  What a mess!!


This was my paper crafting area- again, too much stuff and not enough closed storage to put it.  I was on the hunt for cabinets with shallow drawers and found this in the back hallway of our church.  After speaking with our Priest, it found it's way to may basement, where we put on 3 coats of Terra Rose paint (Martha Stewart) and voila!  Perfect storage for fabric scraps-each drawer has it's own color (of course).

This is the paper crafting area now!  We painted the walls Borrowed Light (Farrow and Ball) and then found a ton of storage with these Ikea Alex drawers.  I bought 6 of the units with castors and then just stacked them.

Here is a view of the custom cutting table, built by Marsha Sefcik Interiors.  Marsha is an interior decorator and a good friend who designed and installed most of this project.  We installed a smooth counter top for the paper craft area, and then they built a spot for my sewing machine on the left.  Undermount lighting and a backsplash finished off this corner.

Rick, from Ruff-Stuff Woodworking came to the rescue with a barn board shelf to put all my fabric on that is large enough to wrap on these comic book boards.  Looks like my shelf has extra room on it-better buy some more fabric and fill it up!!

Of course, I found lots of pretty storage options at Winners.  These are all my markers/pencil crayons stored in one spot now.

One more view of this awesome piece-I just love the color.

My custom sewing table, and on the side a metal cart from Ikea for all my thread, scissors, pins etc.

The Alex drawers filled with supplies-above are my jersey knits for scarves.

And, some are filled with my rubber stamp collection.  Now, I'm inspired to get down there and make some crafts!!!

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The Library Project-month 2

I can honestly say that since I have joined the Maritime Modern Quilt Guild, I have been inspired to make more quilts, and not always make the smaller items that I have been.  (But, there is a huge satisfaction in sitting down and completing something in one shot!).  Anyhow,  I have finished all 48 blocks on the twin size quilt I've been working on, and tomorrow at the Sew-In, I will put the top together as I have all the white sashing and borders cut.  I also have the  patterned fabric cut from the Simply Retro quilt that I will be making next.  Here is a photo of the finished blocks-hopefully will be able to share the finished top with you in the next few days!

Today, I'm linking up to The Library Project with Adrienne (our president of the MMQG).

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Happy Valentine's Day!!

Hope you all have a great day, despite the poor weather!

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Enchanted Blanket

 Busy working on a custom order for a chenille blanket for a little girl.  I love this line called Enchant-it is just so whimsical and cute, the blue block below is my absolute favorite.

This is backed with white chenille and will soon be given to a new baby to snuggle and enjoy!

Linking up to Quiltstory today.

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New quilted baby blanket!

This is just so sweet!  I started cutting rectangles last night, and sewed them all together today and quilted it to a flannel piece in the middle.  I then backed it with blue minky chenille-the finished size is 28x33.  I really love this, maybe I need to start doing more rectangles since I've been hooked on squares for so long!

Linking up to Jaq Studio today!

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New scarves

 Made a few new scarves today- I'll be applying for a Spring Fair soon that will take place on April 26th, so, in hopes of being a vendor there I thought I would start sewing some stock.  Also, my craft room redesign begins in less than 2 weeks so trying to clear up some fabric off my table at the same time!!  I'm excited, it's going to be so much more functional and pretty!  I'll for sure share some photos with you.

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WIP Wednesday!!

For the first time in months I have a quilting project to share for WIP Wednesday!!  I have been commissioned to make 2 twin size quilts for two little girls-who are also twins!!  So, I'm using the pattern Sweets from Allison Harris's book Growing Up Modern.  So far, I have 29 blocks of the 48 finished.  I am quite happy with the colors.  My favorite blocks are the toadstools and the hedgehog/deer.  So cute. 


Linking today to Lee at Freshly Pieced and The Needle and Thread Network.

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The Library Project

 Adrienne from Chezzetcook Quilts has started The Library Project (click on the button to learn more about it if you would like to participate).  I have some projects chosen that I would love to finish before the end of 2014!  First up, a twin size version of the quilt named Sweets below from Allison Harris's book Growing up Modern.

Next will be another twin size quilt from the book Simply Retro.  This pattern is a square quilt but I'll have to adjust it slightly to make it a twin size.

This pattern is one that I won from Quiltstory.  It is just so cute, and I have a thing with squares in quilts-my mind is symmetrical I guess.

I bought this Modern Log Cabin book ages ago.  I did make one quilt from it  a few years ago, but I'm really drawn to the one on the front.  Looks like something that should be kept on the couch for winter tv watching!

And, I've made more chevron scarves than you can count, but have yet to make a chevron quilt!!  It's the whole reason I bought this Quilting Quickly magazine.

Ok, so that's 5 projects
1. Sweets
2. Framed
3. Sawyer's Tracks
4. Log cabin crosses
5. Chevron
Let's see how many can be completed this year-on top of my regular orders and craft fairs!!

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Lots of sewing......

 I made another quilt that will be used as a photo prop for newborns.  This one aqua and white with flannel on the back.  I've also been sewing a ton of scarves and added one more knit cowl to my collection.  (well, it's not much of a collection as they sell as soon as I post them!)  Anyhow, I'm off to my first quilt guild meeting ever in my life!  Looking forward to meeting some like minded ladies.
Well, time to go-hope to check in again soon.

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Newborn photography props

 I started off the New Year at my sewing machine!  I haven't sewed anything over the holidays and I have been anxious to get this little project started and finished!  I had an order from a photographer for a mini quilt for her newborn sessions and so we decided on yellow and white for the first one.

 I'm using my daughter's doll bed for my photo prop, but hers' will be much cuter little babies! 

I just did a cross hatch pattern for my quilting and backed it with a soft grey flannel with white polka dots so she can use the reverse too if she wants. 

Happy New Year All!!

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