In the spirit of sharing our privates… here’s mine. I know there’s alot here, but I’ve got alot of personalities to deal with. lol.

The sewing station. Sergers and singers on the left on a desk. One serger holds all white, the other at this time, all black. The singer has wonderful attachments and will sew just about anything. Keyboard pull out holds my rulers and curves. File drawers hold cones of thread and zippers. Machines on the right of this pic. Treadle and my beautiful pink brother machines (I love the self threading cartridge at my age) and it makes gorgeous buttonholes.

Across from the Koala cabinet, sits another machine for helpers. Directly behind that is the embroidery station, shown here. For machine embroidery and to hold bundles in process on the cabinet to the left.

The other side of this room, holds my personal stash of fabrics and personal projects in process. The bins at the very top are cardboard boxes from the post office which I covered in fabric to hold my patterns. The boxes are free if you ask them for ebay boxes for shipping. Honest, I did use most of the boxes for ebay shipments.

This room has poor lighting which one day I hope to remedy very sooooon. In the meantime, there stands the old, way too hot, halogen lamp from bachelorette days.

Okay, thru the door (seen in the embroidery station pic) is the office / cutting / printing / art studio. One of my other favorite places to hang out and as you shall see from miscellaneous toys, also a fun hangout for the kids (supervised of course).

Office:

Note: the red cabinet was from IKEA’s scratch and dent pile. It works wonderfully to hold vendor literature and samples by type of vendor.

12′ x 3′ wide Cutting / Printing table (currently setup with textile printing / dyeing) I love my tables! They are a gift from my ex-husband when he updated his sound studio. They are ‘modular’ in that there are 2 – 5′ tables with 1-2′ section between. They’re made from 2×4′s split lengthwise, screwed together, masonite topped with glue and nails, then laminated. The legs are also panels constructed as the top, but a space is left for the top of the leg to slide in between 2×4′s in the top and attached to the top with “L” brackets. The table sections are then lag – bolted together underneath (the kind used to attach porches to houses). Finally, the legs have levelers that screw up or down with nylon bases. These tables are over 25 years old and still going strong from house to house. The multi-colored-multi-drawered cabinet at the back holds all of the razor sharp cutters, pattern marking tools, etc. This way the kids know everything in that cabinet is off limits.

Art Studio, other end of the room, contains my drafting table and supplies on one side, portfolios on the middle wall and old vandercook lettpress, types, papermaking supplies, etc… on the right side of the room. (Oh yeah, and the kids thomas the tank engine table in the middle with an ottoman as the dividing line they aren’t allowed to cross because of the lead types. lol.
Drawing Side:

Print/Papermaking Side:

Other miscellaneous storage in – between….

Pattern storage (I know, gotta buy the manila paper, but for now… they are on butcher and craft paper, after all, I just learned how to use those hooks…) The dresser beside it holds my textile paints / dyes on top and quilting fabrics in the drawers sorted by color families.

One of the numerous places I store Mercantile Fabric…

More Mercantile Fabric storage under the tables and in wardrobes (not shown) I keep boxes under the tables for scraps, sorted by color families. These scraps are used to make stuffed animals and other items for Christmas giveaways and the kids are allowed to pull from them for their own sewing projects.