Seeing Yellow

04 Monday Oct 2010

Posted by Bonnie in Fabric, Kaffe Fassett Fabric, My New Sewing Room

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A sneak peek at the colour going up in the new sewing room.

The dropcloths are laid, the painting has begun, but oh, the agony. Do you ever feel like everyone and everything is against you when you all you really want to do is get your teeth into a project? It seems life gets in the way and takes over at every turn. It’s been non-stop interruptions throughout this painting project and the job is only half-done.

To appease my creative soul, however, one of the interruptions was a trip to the fabric store. A lovely little quilt shop I’ve only just discovered. Without a specific project in mind I chose to stock up on as many different kinds of fabrics as I could. I stood in front of the fat quarter wall for a good hour pulling out samples and trying patterns and colours together in different colourways. In the end I left with two series that included some Kaffe Fassett and Philip Jacob prints with two meters of co-ordinating plains. It was a very fruitful trip. Oh, and then I decided I needed a new sketchpad to scribble my ideas into. I think it needs a nice fabric covering, don’t you?

Back to the paintbrush…..

Fall Colours

01 Friday Oct 2010

Posted by Bonnie in Inspirational Books, My New Sewing Room, Sewing Projects

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There doesn’t seem to be a lot of sewing happening just yet. Lots of thinking, dreaming, web-surfing, idea-gathering, and organizing. My new sewing space is taking shape. After many years in boxes my treasured sewing books have emerged and made their way onto the shelves above the sewing machine ready for quick reference or ideas. A few other books that haven’t seen the light of day for quite some time joined them as well. It was like Christmas pulling them all from the boxes. The paint for the room is purchased and ready to go on the walls. And a couple of projects have been half-started. Can you half-start something?

One more step to cleaning out my old stash and making room for new was to pull out some flannel I had purchased for pyjama bottoms for my boys. I couldn’t find a pattern I liked so am using a comfortable used pair as my pattern and tracing them. It wasn’t as easy as it looked and I’m still tweeking the pattern.

I made a slight boo-boo and ran out of tracing paper at the top of the pyjama pants when it came time to include the elastic casing. A simple “cut and paste” was in order.

Tomorrow’s project – Paint!

My New Sewing Room

26 Sunday Sep 2010

Posted by Bonnie in My New Sewing Room

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I have found a new sewing space in my house. You may recall my original sewing room – the messy one – that I showed you a picture of a few posts ago. Well, rather than clean it up I have found a new space to encroach upon.

This requires a bit of background information but I’ll try and keep it brief. About a month ago, we decided to move our two teenage boys into the basement as their sleeping quarters. They were more than ecstatic about this decision and moved furniture and music equipment and computer equipment down to their new space. I like to call it The Pit. They also moved the couch that we used to watch television from upstairs to one of the bedrooms. The TV however did not make it upstairs. They have absconded with it for their video games. I don’t mind. It leaves me more time to read, sew and blog!

We also used to have our office (my husband and I share a home office) in the basement. The boys were kind enough (read ‘excited enough’) to help move all the office equipment up to the second floor as well. So now we have completely taken over the second floor for ourselves. Besides the master bedroom we now have an office and a lounge. It’s very decadent! The rooms are bright and welcoming and I love our new spaces.

Much to my husband’s chagrin, however, I have begun to move some of my sewing paraphernalia up to the lounge a bit at a time. I’m only taking up the closet space so I don’t feel like I’m taking too much of the space for myself but you might get an argument about that out of my husband. Especially in light of the fact that he only just finished constructing the old sewing room out of some storage space in the basement just last winter.

I intend to keep my old sewing room as my main storage area and stash but I love the bright new space I have found to do my actual sewing. There’s still lots to do to pull it all together and some leftovers on the shelves from the boys to get rid of but I’ll be working away at that project daily. The room does need a coat of paint as well. Some colour don’t you think? But I’ll keep the sewing area bright white for a clean palate to showcase my cloth.

Here’s a picture of the old and the new.