While working so hard on quilts like Ruffled Roses, my studio gets cluttered, plain and simple. It tends to stay that way until I have a reason to clean up. With two groups of students coming to visit this weekend, that time was NOW.
BEFORE:
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| Primary cutting and work surface and dumping ground |
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| Overflow work surface--the Q20 table |
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| Chair rarely available for seating |
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| What is under that practice quilt sandwich? |
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| View from just inside the doorway |
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Miscellaneous stuff--and Garth
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AFTER, this took less than 45 minutes:
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| View from the doorway |
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| Another view from the doorway |
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| View from the desk |
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| View from the ironing station |
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| Rare view of the cutting table with NO fabric or other stuff on it |
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| Ruby lives under the practice quilt sandwich, a Featherweight I had painted Ruby Red |
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View from my sewing machine
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I love having the design wall opposite the machine--I can often see things from that far away I would miss closer up. Ruffled Roses will remain up for a few more days then she needs to come down so I can put up two quilts I am working on. Ruffled Roses will head off to a great long arm quilter in a few months for the royal treatment. I have plenty of tops to work on and this quilt deserves the best.
It would be nice to say I'll keep the studio this neat indefinitely but I know that won't happen. This is my happy place, and when I'm being creative stuff just piles up. That's OK with me. All I have to do is invite a group over and the place gets a clean-up. There is still way too much stuff in all those boxes and the closets are full. A purge isn't likely anytime soon, however...
For photos of the wonderful closets see
Closets 1 and 2, Closets 3 and 4, and
Closets 5 and 6. Those photos were taken two and a half years ago--they are reasonably the same today, though there is more stuff in them now.
Let's quilt!
Barbara
