View of my studio

My studio has been selected by Morna Golletz to be featured in an article in the next issue of Professional Quilter.  My studio is my hang out.  I am in it everyday.  There is so much I could say about it; certainly more than the article had space for.

Co-incidentally I was going through my images searching for something and came across some views of my studio when I first set it up.  This was about eight years ago!

My studio is in the basement of my home.  The basement was totally unfinished with pipes, wires, bare cider block walls and duct work randomly snaking around the ceiling.

My husband tackled the huge task all by himself except for the plumbing and tile work.  He planned the layout and moved some of the duct work using some angles as if they were part of the planned architecture.  He was very ingenious.  Our home has beautiful tongue-in-groove wood on the ceiling of the family room and foyer.  He decided to include this feature on the ceiling on the central area.

He did a fabulous job!  It took months of arduous labor.  Have you ever tried to hand dry wall on the ceiling by yourself?  Well, he did just that.

The downside is there are no windows.  So lighting was crucial.

The most charming feature is an antique stained glass window that he mounted in one wall.  This sort of gives the illusion of a window and light.  I took this picture this week for the article.

Next come the old images.  What a difference from today.  The main difference is it is how tidy it was!  And look at all of those trash cans….empty ones too.

This area is the largest about 20′ x 20′.  I use it mainly for storage and design walls now.

The lighting did not prove to be efficient enough so I use a second room for sewing and detail work.

Have you ever posed sitting at your sewing machine?  It is obvious I am NOT doing serious work at this moment.

Now I am posing in front of a design wall.  Wow! I haven’t seen the surface of that table so clear!  The piece on the design wall on the lower right is Madame Butterfly in progress.  This quilt went on to win first place in Art=Quilts=Art for Pictorial a few years back.  It now belongs to my daughter.  She claimed it even before it was finished.

You will have to read the article to see the other room.  I wasn’t even using it at the time these images were taken.