Hello again! Sorry about last week… as some of you noticed, we were having major internet problems, and Sew Cute Tuesday was a casualty of that last week. Now that it’s all dealt with, and from an optimistic point of view, it did give me a lot of sewing time. Which was needed so as to finish up this magazine commission…
I’ve also started to get organised to sew along with Angie’s Tula Pink #100blocks100days quilt along on Instagram. As it can make quite a large quilt, I have decided to make it for our bed. At long last, a full-sized quilt for our bed! Which means deciding on a colour scheme for it that would go with our bedroom. Except that as we’ve just moved countries, our bedroom doesn’t have anything in it other than our mattress on the floor… sooooo, that means decided what look I’m wanting to go for in our bedroom from scratch! Ah, the pressure! I’m currently thinking about using my Japanese indigoes and navys, and adding in as I go. I need to pull them out and have a play!
And most importantly, I have been getting out and meeting friends for the first time, ones I have been talking with for a long time online! This is a shot of me stitching some binding for a baby quilt for Very Snuggly Quilts at the end of our day at the Melbourne Quilt and Craft Fair on Saturday. Stitching and nattering away!
Look at me, I remembered that it’s the first Tuesday of the month! And that means it’s time to show off a bonus post to do with this month’s theme of storage and organisation. Oh yes, something completely different… It’s a little selfish, as I’m still trying to settle into my new sewing space and organise myself efficiently. I purchased a little 4-drawer unit that I had used up in Cairns and liked, but as for organising my stash, etc? SIGH. So, please inspire me with your sewing storage and organisation tips and tricks and makes and tools!
And now it’s time to show off what you’ve been up to! Don’t forget you can link directly to an Instagram pic too! So if you want to link from there, you can do that too – link up as normal, and use #sewcutetuesday and @blossomheartquilts on IG to help us find you from there too.
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Sophie says
This sampler would be great with indigo fabrics ! Hope you choose that option to see what it looks like 😉
Alyce says
Thank you! No pressure or anything, right? 😉
Carla says
What fun to decorate from scratch. I think my bedroom colour scheme is STILL dictated by a cotton blanket I bought from Myer when I worked there during university. The indigos should look gorgeous.
Alyce says
Well, whatever works, right?! Yeah, fun but also painfully slow when you have to wait for things like the money to buy a bed frame and side tables, haha! Ah well, at least I get to start on the quilt soon enough!
Jayne says
I totally get the internet problems! It happens! I wish I had an actual room of my own to organize and decorate for sewing. Money to pay for it would be nice too!!
Alyce says
Haha! Yeah, my new set up will take a while for that darn money reason… I have a small table, a small set of 4 plastic drawers, and my ironing board in a corner of the living room. Everything else is in our wardrobe!
Jennie Wallick says
I like everything in its place and a place for everything. It just doesn’t always happen that way. I love to hang my rulers and templates on the back of my sewing room door with command strip hooks. I’ve put all the smal templates and rulers on a ball chain that hangs there too. It keeps all of them together. At the bottom of the door is all my stencils for quilting, and in the top corner is hooks for my rotary cutters and cut gloves. My cutting mats live under my husband’s side of the bed, laying flat. IKEA is great if they have what you really need. In my case it was racks with metal baskets to hold all of my leather, cotton, scraps, notions, fleece, etc. I like my newest way to hold my larger pieces of fabrics. I bought wire pant hangers that have 5 rods to slide fabric on. I have 2 with just wide backing fabric on them. And 4 with multiple yard pieces on them. I took the time to spray sizing and iron them. I’m actually trying to use up my stash, because I never want to have to do what you did in Japan.
Alyce says
And you know what my husband said to me the other day?! “You have a lot more than I remembered, AND you got rid of so much…” Ahem. So I hear ya on trying to use the stash!
Sue says
I’m not much help with the storage solutions since I’m still trying to find my own BUT I did come across this “pegboard shelf” today and I reckon this could be VERRRRY useful
http://www.kmart.com.au/product/pegboard-with-wooden-shelves/806995
Alyce says
I have eyed that off!! I’m not sure I have the desk/wall space for it though, sigh. Unless I add another desk to make my corner into an L-shape…
Jackie Gillies says
I think I see my foot under the table there! It was so great to meet you, finally!!
Alyce says
Haha! You too xx