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Sewing Studio Step By Step Construction!

Thanks to the best father in the world - Bob- aka Poppy, I now have a new sewing room/studio! YAY Up until about 8 months ago I had my very own sewing room/office the I had stuffed full of sewing machines, embroidery machines, sergers and more fabric than any one person should be allowed to own. Then...my husband a part time webmaster, decided to become a full time webmaster. Well let me just tell you the room was full already but to add another person and all thier business tools...WOW...Not Happening! Well not happening comfortably anyways.

So my brilliant dad had the idea to convert space that we were not using into my very own sewing room/ hide from the kids room...Just kidding- kinda. We plan to share the sewing room construction photos and eventually tips for building you own sewing studio once mine is done. Enjoy - and thanks again dad!

Day one-Clean out garage and dontate everything to the Katrina victims	Take out the ugly cabinets and move everything off the shelf- time to decorate for halloween anyways :0)	The first cabinet is GONE!	The room is framed in! YAY
		We now have a front door to our new sewing studio.	The sheet rock it up and looking GREAT!
	Dad installs the skylight- and it looks amazing!	Sheet Rock around the Skylight	Drop down stairs to a storage area - nice way to keep your space open and not full of stuff.

Dad installs the last piece of sheet rock for the sewing studio- over the door. Job well done.

Dad textures the walls and sprays popcorn on the ceiling...we only need a coat of paint, some carpet and ceramic tile and it MOVE IN TIME!

Dad putting down the ceramic tile

Click here to see the completed sewing room studio

Tips to organize your sewing room

Below is a list of tips and suggestions for setting up your sewing room or sewing studio. I had no idea what went into setting up a "dreaml" sewing room until we started the construction and I had every option for placement.

Things to think of before you start building or move into your existing sewing room...

*How many people will be sewing in the room?

*Do you ever have friend or family over when you sew or do they sew or quilt with you?

*What type of sewing do you usually do?...do you sew clothing, toys, crafts, quilts, curtains, pillows, etc? (this will determine how much space you need for each station- a quilter needs more sewing space since quilts are large and they need a good cutting space to cut out all the quilt squares.)

*Do you sew professionally?

*If you do sew professionally, what type of product do you sew? (for a seamstress that does clothing alterations they may need a changing room for the customer as well as a dress makers form...all these things take up space.)

*If you do sew professionally, do your customers come to your sewing room?

*Do you have children that will be in your sewing room with you? (if so you may want to hang racks or a peg board over thier reach for all your cutting supplies or make a child friendly corner like we did that they can watch thier disney movies or read a book while you sew.)

* How many machines do you have and what type of sewing machines do you have? (Quilting machines, sewing machines, serger, embroidery machine, quilting rack, etc.)
*Depending on the types of machines you have you'll need thread racks. We have our thread racks hanging to save space, we have a serger thread rack, embroidery thread rack, a standard thread rack and a quilting thread rack. Its important to keep your threads organized on their own racks as each thread has its own qualities and limitations. Example...I would never use serger thread in my embroidery machine.
* Do you need a cutting station that is always available or can you use a cutting board on your ironing station?
*Do you design patterns or work with patterns that you need to have a large area to lay out?
* Do you design or download machine embroidery patterns? Where will you place your laptop or desk computer and Ultimate Box?
*How many electrical outlets will you need and where should they be placed?
*Pressing station- iron and ironing board?
*What type of lighting do you need?
*Machine placement
*What will you do with your waste fabric? Do you recycle all of your fabric? This is how we set up our cutting station to save ALL parts of each piece of fabric. We waste nothing! Three large pails with lids - we use a trash can with a push top lid each is labeled- Useable large fabric, Small scraps to make quilt pieces, Tiny pieces of fabric that can't be sewn into a project-we use these to stuff toys and pillows.
*A trash can for all other waste not for fabric.
*A small bin to place scrap paper that the kids can reuse and/or a shredded for any paper that has personal information on it. We use the scrapped paper to pack up our christmas decorations.
*Clock
*Telephone
*Tv and DVD Player
*Computer and Printer
*Fitting and Alterations Dress Form
*Storage-This takes up the most space in many sewing rooms...especially if you are like me and believe the gal who dies with the most fabric wins....
When thinking about storage consider the following items:
Pattern weights
Presser Foots and other sewing machine parts
Measuring tapes
Hand sewing needles
Machine needles
Pins
Calculator
Pin Cushion
Pattern Storage
Sewing, quilting and embroidery magazines
Sewing, quilting and embroidery books
Batting
Stuffing
Templates
Marking Tools
Embroidery Stabilizers
Notions-interfacing, buttons, zippers, lace, elastic, bias tape...etc.
ALL THAT FABRIC

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