My new studio

Welcome to my new combined office / sewing room!

When we moved into our house twelve years ago, this attic room became kind of a junk room. Although there was a TV-Set and it has got this nice little roof terrace, it was used very rarely. We planned to make it my office "some day", but I had an office desk in my bedroom and I used to work over there or at the dining room table.

When I started sewing, I brought my sewing machine (and another vintage sewing machine, and another vintage sewing machine, and another vin....) and a table to the attic, but it still was a cluttered, messy room, that had never been renovated since the former owners built this part of the house in the early 1990s.

As I work from home most of the time now and as I am addicted to quilting, I really needed a room to work and sew! After one long week of repairing the roughcast, painting the walls, remodeling the room, cleaning and a lot of work, my new "studio" is now almost done!

I think, one can see, that this is kind of a man's cave. It is more functional than pretty, with almost no decoration stuff. By the way... Did you know? Men make every room messy in no time! Women do the same, but they name this process "decoration". ;-)

OK... Let us walk upstairs to have a look at the new studio!

This wall will become a design wall soon.

The office

The main sewing table under the window.
I found this table at the bulk garbage.

I cut a hole into the table top to fit in most of my vintage sewing machines.

This is "Hilde", my Singer 201, a great straight stitcher which I use for piecing most of the time.

Thank you IKEA, for providing us with imperial measuring tools free of charge!

Counter height (38" tall) cutting table

The cutting table was made from an IKEA Linnmon/Adlis table on bed risers with a 36" x 71" table top on top. The whole cutting table will be covered with an ironing surface soon and will then serve as a combined ironing board / cutting table.

Secret storage space under the cutting table for those vintage sewing machines
the hubby does not yet know...

The storage units on the cutting table hold my cutting tools, some fat quarters and the quilt inspector's watchtower.

The shelve unit on the right holds my stash (or: SOME of my stash....).

Print fabric

My own hand-dyed fabric

Some (70+ ...) men's shirts waiting to be deboned and repurposed for quilt making

Yes! There are more vintage sewing machines!

On the left: a 1953 PFAFF 230 automatic (motorized).
On the right: a 1937 HAID & NEU "Torpedo" treadle machine.

More storage space for the "Scrap User's System"
(I cut my scraps into the most common sizes at 1.5", 2", 2.5", 3.5" and 4.5"),
for office stuff and of course another vintage sewing machine.
It's a 1924 Pfaff 31 which waits to be restored.