One Down...

Brynwood Needleworks - Fabric Studio -North West Wall

 

I've completed cleaning my fabric room. I've removed 35-40 bolts that will be donated, sold or gifted. I'm going to start with a friend who is very active with a number of charitable sewing groups. Then, I'll list up the bolts I will sell. Finally, but certainly not getting inferior products, will be my donation pile. 

 

Those bolts are just the beginning. I'll be sorting and pulling more in the weeks ahead. Now that I have my cutting table cleaned off, I'll be able to photograph the bolts toward my goal of moving them to new homes.

 

This wall is the first thing I see when I walk into my fabric studio. my cutting table sits atop two cubby shelf units (that contain cuts that are one yard or less. The pattern file holds all my wools for applique', along with most of the wool kits I own. There are other wool kits in progress that I keep in plastic containers with the patterns. Those are stored in the closet in my sewing studio.

Brynwood Needleworks - Fabric Studio - North East Wall

 

Now that I've taken down and sorted through all the bolts of fabric that used to be on top of my shelves, I have space to display some of my knicknacks, freeing up horizontal work surfaces.

 

Brynwood Needleworks - Fabric Studio - East Wall

 

This wall houses a pair of cubby unit shelves, stacked and screwed to the wall. Next to it (behind the door) is a book shelf for some of my needlework books. You'll see my pearl cotton cabinets to the left of the fabric shelves, too. As an aside, those dang radiators can get in the way of decor sometimes. I think I should paint them...or use open-sided, wooden covers, so they can still heat as they're meant to.

 

Brynwood Needleworks - Fabric Studio -West Wall

 

Moving to the left around the room, the west wall of the studio has more bolt shelves, and I moved the large 20 gallon crock (that my paternal grandpa used to make pickles) to the window area. The crock holds my rolls of cork fabric. 

 

Next to that, in front of the window, is a small metal shelf unit that holds fabrics I pulled and packed as kits with patterns I really want to sew up. I'm probably going to put something behind that shelf so that those fabrics don't fade from the light.

 

Brynwood Needleworks - Fabric Studio -South Wall

Finally, the south wall of my fabric studio holds two more stacked shelf units. The top section has some of my favorite quilting, knitting, crochet and needlework books. The lower section has decor fabric samples, and other supplies in the bins.

 

So at the end of the day, I stood and looked on the result of my hard work. I'm very happy with the finished room...and a little achy. I'm not working in the sewing studio today. I'm going to put my feet up and stitch. I think I've earned it.