Sewing Studio Tour

This past Wednesday, the Sewphisticuts continued the July tradition of touring a member's sewing room.  Many of us refer to our sewing spaces rather grandly as "studios", when the reality is closer to "closet", but Sue K's sewing space is truly a studio!  Recently she had her downstairs room redone to make a beautifully spacious sewing and design space, with stations for sewing, quilting, ironing and cutting.  The L-shaped room  has lots of shelf space for storage of books, fabric and notions, and a padded wall to pin up pieces as part of the design and assembly process.

Design wall with long-arm quilting machine in foreground

Of course all the rest of us were awed and envious of this well-appointed space, truly a dream come true for sewists! 

After the tour, we enjoyed a pot-luck dinner which showed that our creative skills are not limited to the fabric arts.   A few people had brought show-and-tell, from tote bags to t-shirts.  Most intriguing were some fabric flowers that Peg S. brought, formed by embroidering organza over a special texturizing layer that then shrinks when sprayed with water.  You can see one show-and-tell piece in the top photo;  Peggy N. made a summer romper by combining a favorite shorts pattern with a sleeveless blouse pattern, sewing the two pieces together at the waist to create a casing for the elastic and adding a zipper at the back of the blouse.