New & Improved Sewing Room!
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
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Here it is - my updated sewing room! Plus a bonus on rearranging furniture without moving anything, using just graph paper and a ruler (and a pencil).
The original tour of the room: • Sewing Room Tour Versi...
How I organize my sewing patterns: • The Best Way to Organi...
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Thanks fir the ideas. I have a bigger space now. No budget for cubbies, etc, but need a good table at least.
You are the first SewRuber that uses a Pfaff!! I love my Pfaff. My mom bought one almost 40 years ago, and it is still going. I just bought my first one two years ago. I love the way your room is set up. I came here looking for ideas on how to set up my sewing room in my new house.
I love PFAFF too! I have 4 PFAFFs I have purchased either new or used. I also have the first PFAFF machine my mom purchased in @ 1970.
Love, love, love it! I’m a quilter. I have recently purchased a Singer Momento 24. I’m now working on rearranging my sewing room to accommodate it. Thanks for the graph paper tip! 😊
Wonderful!
it's great when you can have everything efficient , enjoy the updated space
Thank you Anna!
Great room! Most functionally beautiful sewing room tables are the ones made❤
I totally agree!
I 💜 your sewing room! It’s a room where you want to be as you sew! It’s perfect🥰.
I certainly think so!
Beautiful sewing room! Great tip!! I’ve been using graph paper for many years to plan all my rooms! I use one square for each foot! Works great for me!
Thanks so much!
I live in the worlds smallest apartment and I have never been as jealous as I am of your room
LOL don't be too jealous. It's really tight in there. The table that holds my machines is far too small and I only have about 2' of clearance to walk around that fabulous center worktable. But I try and make use of every inch I've got. Such a privilege to have a whole room. I am thankful!
I, too, use graph paper like that. I use repositional/restickable glue on the cut out bits. Works like post it notes adhesive.
Works so well!
Your room looks great. It’s amazing how just moving the book cases opened up so much more space. I like the tip with the graph paper. So smart
I still can't get over how much more light that room has now. I've been painting all the rooms in my house with semi-gloss paint so the light will bounce around. That room might be next!
@@TodayinJensSewingRoom it’s gonna a small thing with a big impact. Nice!
I love your new sewing room Jen, and the way you plan on square paper is exactly the way I re designed our old house after we moved in! We love the house so much we say how grateful we are every day! 💐
Makes it so much easier when you design on paper first, doesn't it? Being in a house you love is just a gift. It's wonderful that you love yours!
I’ve used graph paper idea, and it works plus it saves you time in the long run. So pretty much only need to move and tweak as you go.
Isn't graph paper the best? Makes figuring the whole thing out so much easier.
Some great ideas for storage
I realized a few days ago, that I MUST do a weekend (at least) of organizing everything in my house. And my sewing studio is the area that demands the most attention. I am sure that my mind will work better in a more organized space. Your room looks great! Thanks for your tour and the inspiration!
My pleasure and you can do it! Once you're into it, it won't be long before you're done. I know what you mean - I can't work in a mess. And yet I often do! Probably why I need that seam ripper so often . . .
Wow! It’s a beautiful room.
Thank you! 🤗
Hi Jen, love your sewing space, i would love a room that size, I only have a small, but compact little bedroom. xx
It's all about using the space to its full potential - I'm always marveling when I walk thru an Ikea how they fit so much into such a small space. I'm sure I'll be redesigning this as I go, buy more fabric, more patterns, find I don't need this or that - it's an ongoing process, don't you think?
It's such a beautiful room
Thank you Fausta!
Your sewing room is awesome!
Thank you! 😊
Thank you for sharing your new wonderful, wonderful sewing space. What a great space to sew in
Thank you! 😊It is!
I’ve used the graph paper method for years and really played with it last winter when I redid my sewing room. I put in all new pieces except some thrifted rolling racks for fabric. During COVID I was able to buy a few IKEA pieces at a time, haul them home in my CRV, slide them downstairs, assemble and arrange them by myself according to my plan. It all worked extremely well and is a gem to work in. And…it saved my sanity during a difficult time.
That's wonderful! I love playing with the little pieces you create with the graph method. It truly does help, doesn't it?
Space allocation is the best way to configure any room or area! That was one of my responsibilities when I worked. Loved doing it! Pittsburgh, Pa
Totally agree!
Love the ink on canvas you college roommate did. I don’t think I’d be sticking pins on it even if it is canvas. That’s a keepsake you don’t want to ruin. I too use an old door for my cutting table but I had to add a 5” strip so my giant cutting mat would fit. One side has the drawers from an old water bed and one day I hope to add cubes. Currently in tearing everything apart so I can change rooms. I really enjoyed your tour. Wish my window & room were as big s yours.
Any space you have to sew is a good one. The things you make are just as beautiful!
I Love your sewing room!! I love your center working/cutting Island the best!! ♡♡♡
Jan thanks for sharing,I love the table idea made with cubes and so much-needed storage added at the same time wow!
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful!
I love your sewing room tour, also the great idea of rearranging all the furniture. Thank you so much for sharing!
Glad you liked it!!
I cannot even imagine having a sewing room like this
I am so grateful.
When you CAN imagine having one, then you will💝
Time for me to rearrange my space. Thanks for the tour and good ideas. Happy sewing.
too funny , that's what i do before moving things, once i was no longer a young pup & got to be an old dog , it was like nope i'll play with paper lots & move stuff once ha ha , much love from Newfoundland
Anna you are a genius. Paper first and solid surface floors - definitely the way to go. I moved those bookcases myself and my husband couldn't believe it. I did take them apart, kind of, to get them thru doorways and the hallway. But ya know, it's all about leverage. And if something slides, piece of cake!
Love the improved sewing room & like how organized it is! Nothing like being able to find things when you need them. Inspires me to work on mine, especially organizing my fabric which has gotten away from me.
That happens so quickly - things descend into chaos by nature (entropy). I'm sure I'll be reorganizing by next week! 😂
What a lovely sewing room! Thank you for sharing it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love the new sewing room. I have also done the graph paper thing when re arranging rooms. It works great.
Sure does save your back!
The sewing room looks great and certainly more airy and light.
You can never have enough light!
I’m new to your channel Jen from Brisbane Australia, and I loved your sewing room tour. I’ve been thinking about revamping my sewing room and I really liked your graph plan. I’m inspired to try it out. Yes natural light is the best for sewing. I have a large window where I sew and it looks out onto my garden and I love being distracted with all the birds that visit.
I'd definitely be distracted in your room. I love hearing the birds.
Really like the changes❤️
Thanks me too!
Your hubby is a smart man, I love the graph paper idea and I used it to design my kitchen. Your sewing room turned out awesome so refreshing isn't it! The canvas of you is beautiful, very talented friend you have. A keepsake for sure!
Thank you so much - and I'll tell the Hunk O Man that Sheri think's he's pretty smart! 😁
Keep those ideas coming, it really helps to know someone else is having the same storage and organize problems and how to solve.
And there's yet another one coming up!
Very nice Jen! Re arranging always brings new inspiration along!!! 🥂 to your new sewing room 🍾. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much! 😊
I love your new room, Jen! It almost looks like mine. Lol I have a 7570, a Juki and countless Featherweights that I call my little old ladies. I am in the process of redesigning my sewing room. I was a quilter previously, but am now concentrating on sewing for Dress a Girl. I got a lot of useful tips from This video. Thank you!
i'm so glad you were inspired, because you certainly have excellent taste in machines!
I watched your other sewing room tour, and It is very nice to see how much brighter it is now.
I heartily agree!
What a great sewing room! My husband who was a computer system designer used to plan out the rooms as you did. Unlike me who would manhandle furniture around like a lunatic. So much better your way.
I've had my years like you! You're fortunate to have a husband who can do that -
I Love your sewing room. Thank you for sharing. That picture of you is Amazing! ♥️
Thank you so much!
Well it was fabulous before and now it’s even better! So light and airy and with a calming atmosphere which one needs sometimes when our friend the seam ripper makes an appearance! Well done. X
Thanks so much, Carole -
I have those same bookshelves. I used to have four but one didn’t make my last move. Gotta make Costco love L them.
Very nice, Jen. You are a very smart and handy lady. Enjoy your happy 😃 place
Thank you! 😃
Love it, Jen!! Thanks for showing us- it’s always so fun to see other people’s “happy places”. 🥰
My pleasure! I'm so glad it was helpful!
Your room is very ergonomic and you still have a free area for more storage or whatever else you may wish to add to it now that the huge bookcase is located elsewhere. The natural light is wonderful and the room has a happy atmosphere to it! By the way, I own a Pfaff 7570 and currently sew on a 2140, as well. I also have my mother-in-law’s Featherweight.
We are sewing machine twins! And I'm just about to redo this room again . . .
Your blouse is nearly the negative print of the fabric bins! Thank you for sharing your wonderful space.
My pleasure - glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the tour! Its always so nice to have a visit with you!
My pleasure!
That is an absolutely fabulous sewing room
Thanks so much! I love it - it serves me well.
Your sewing room! It's a wonderful space. Very inspiring.
❤️
Love it all, great idea how you worked the bookshelves even before moving it. 👍. Blessings and thank you for sharing
Thanks Elizabeth! Putting wheels on everything has changed my life 😜
Love the sewing space.
Thank you so much!
This has given me the inspiration to get mine rearranged and organized. Had no idea the carts were so reasonable. Looks great.
That is fantastic! I love the little trolley carts - I have one next to my kitchen table that's essentially my desk. It's handy for me to store stuff when I sit here at the table and work at my laptop
Love your sewing room!!! Your so talented!!! Wow making your cutting table and the barn door. 🥰
Thank you so much!!
I love your newly designed sewing room!
Thank you Connie! 😊
Very nice. Love your videos.
Glad you like them!
Looks great Jen! I love how you did your cutting table & barn door :)
Thanks Sherri! Hoo baby it was a LOT of work. As you well know, you expert chicken coop builder! 🤗
Still LOVE the door, Jen! Beautiful, sunny, happy place to spend your time :) Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much Kris! 😊
Bonsoir Jen, niiiiice! So big and bright! Christine 🇨🇦
Merci! Je l'aime! Je sais que cela semble si formel, mais Google Translate est à peu près le meilleur que je puisse faire. Mon français était bien meilleur il y a des années. ❤️. .🍁
@@TodayinJensSewingRoom super ma belle xoxo
Great sewing space! I especially like your cutting/storage design table-and the vintage Singer machines. Lucky🍀 you!
Thank you! 😊
Wonderful room! Ive done that graph thing before on my computer. Moving into a new house and figuring out my master bedroom! I cant remember what program I did it in....I think it was excell. All my squares equalled an inch! Great creative minds think alike! I wish we were neighbors! We could go fabric shopping and thrifting together! Thanks for sharing!
I need more neighbors like you!
Love the new design.I can see how it works for you. That’s a great idea about the graph paper.
Thanks so much Sue. You should give the graph paper a try. Works like a dream.
I love your island @8:00! a great use of premades and flat surface with cutting mat💝
Thanks so much! 😊 Me too!
Congratulations 🎊🎈🎉 this is a great space! How big is that room ? Mine is 10x 11 and I can’t fit everything I have
This is such an inspiration to me. Thank you for such great ideas. I'm ready to get to work.
You go girl! You can definitely do this.
Such a beautiful room! Hope you enjoy every bit of it 🧵
Thank you Janet!
Isn't it amazing how we make our sewing spaces the way we think they should be and then we work in them. We find that something is not quite right. Even a large window doesn't seem to light the room up. Maybe more lights? Where would we put them.? As we are puzzling this , it comes across our mind that either the walls are painted a darker shade than they need to be or our favorite piece of dark large storage solution is sucking up all the light! Wow! Why haven't I thought of that before. Thanks slot Jen! My first ever sewing room and I could not figure out why my room feels dark even with the lights on nice large double window, nice ceiling light and task lighting. I have white open shelving on the upper wall on one side. I have a black Ikea cube shelving under the white ones. An old oak teachers desk on another wall.on either side of my windows I have two custom made oak bookcases that my wonderful husband made for me. I don't Want to paint any of the wood selves so now that I recognize the problem, I will come up with a solution. I love my oldest, my wonderful bookshelves, so maybe the Ikea and the open shelving needs another home? I have some thinking to do. Thanks Jen. I love your cutting table. Sending hugs and prayers.
You definitely have some figuring to do! The graph paper really does make it easier - hope you're able to take advantage of that. Those bookcases sound beautiful. It's wonderful once you get it all thought out - and I'm sure your hubby will be great in relocating things if that's what you decide. Good luck!
What an awesome looking door! My oh my are you handy with your little fingers! Love your sewing space especially having a dedicated large work table like yours! I love your graph paper idea! Unfortunately for me, when it comes to math my brain shuts down! LOL! 😱😱 This would be an easy way to do if I didn’t have brain shut down! LOL! Thanks for sharing your awesome sewing space!
Ugh math! My nemesis! I wouldn't even know basic arithmetic if not for sewing. Glad you liked it -
Your room looks so light and airy now. I don’t think I’d be that technical with drawings as I’d probably end up shoving furniture around and regretting it😁
As long as you have solid surface floors, it's no big deal. Stuff slides around so easily! I moved those bookcases myself (had to take them apart somewhat) and Mark was astonished. Leverage, it's all about leverage, and being able to slide them across a vinyl plank floor. When we bought this house 3 years ago, I told Mark NO CARPET. He said "not even in the bedrooms? Are you sure?" I said nope, none. The people at the flooring place said "how many threshholds are you gonna need? I said 3. Front door, back door, garage door. When they said "what about the closets? The bedrooms?" I just shook my head. Nope, no carpet, no need for it. And now Mark looks at me all the time and says "have I told you lately how smart it was to get all solid surface flooring everywhere?" It makes me smile. So easy to clean. Best decision we made about this house.
@@TodayinJensSewingRoom we have tiles and laminate all downstairs but carpet on the stairs and upstairs as the kids are noisy so carpet muffles it but I do prefer solid surfaces when it comes to keeping them clean
Omg that is amazing 🤗
Thanks! It's tight but it works!
Beautiful sewing room😊. I’ve card-stock rolled ALL my fabrics. Easier to see what I have. And their all so pretty.
The sewing room looks great!
Thanks Mary!
loving the sewing space
Thank you so much!
Wow that cubicle table is awesome
Thanks, I love it!
Haya. Great room Jen, looks amazing :) Yup right there with you about having some things close by to just reach out & pick up :) Thanku for sharing. x
Thanks Anna!
great work! When I finally clear out my "storage room" I will have a sewing space. Decluttering to do! :)
Hales @halesmoore just did that. I still need to declutter one room but fixing up a space for something specific is very motivating!
@@TodayinJensSewingRoom :)
Good room great organization
Thank you Robyn 😊
Looks great!
Thank you!
Nice job! The graph paper is a great way to test the room layout. I use a similar method but on the computer 😉
That's a great idea! I know basic CAD but don't have it on my laptop (limited space). I envy you!
Lovely room.
Thank you! 😊
Wow so beautiful
😁
Love your space! You can look outside:) natural light. I love book cases. I’d like to place all my fabric on boards and on shelving so I can see it. Great idea to draw things to scale so you can move it around!
That's a great idea, putting fabric where you can see it. Then you don't forget it's there - kind of like those veggies in the fridge, in that drawer, outta sight outta mind . . . 😁
@@TodayinJensSewingRoom LOL! I try to cook those veggies, but sometimes they just don’t make it to to pan.
Great room enjoy🤩🤩🤩💖💖
Thank you 🤗
Love the sewing room Jen, well done.
Thanks Linda!
I love your room now . I too have antique book shelves that I won't part with.. They are in our computer/bedroom.. we only have 2 bedrooms so it is ideal. I just went to one of our fabric shops here ... Linen is now $50.00 a metre.. ( 39 inches )
Holy cow $50/m? That's outrageous! And good for you for hanging onto your bookshelves. There are just some things that need to stay with you the way they are.
a metre is about 3 inches longer than a yard.. I'm in Metric Canada.. Most cottons here are $15.00 and up.. Its not easy to find bargains anymore and I buy one piece at a time so seeing your fabric hauls is fun. I sure wish I could do that.
Jen, you are such a delight. I have gotten so many ideas from you. One of the first things I noticed in your sewing room was your valance. Was that a pattern? Would love to know how to make them. 😊😊. Any instructions?
Thanks Mary! And yet another video I need to make. That valance is so simple, no sewing required. I need to put another one up in another room so I'll try and make a video of how to do it. Thanks for the reminder!
I will be watching. 😊😊
Every step you take . . . every move you make . . . 👮♀️🎸🎶
Nice space!
Thanks!
I love your sewing space! I’m thrilled to have a dedicated space but it’s not arranged in a good way. I’m going to use your graph paper method!!! I think my pattern collection would fit in 2 of your bins🤣
That's because your pattern collection is all digital! The graph paper thing is fun. You should definitely try it!
@@TodayinJensSewingRoom yes but I put them in envelopes after I print them🙂. I just ordered some graph paper from Amazon!!!
Great job, seems to work very well 👍❤
Thanks Paula!
I love your sewing room, madam
Thank you! 😊
Love!
❤️
Your room looks great, Jenn! Did you paint the picture of the dog--I like it. I've used graph paper to plan my sewing room. IKEA has a room planner on its site. You just enter the room dimensions, door, etc. and add furniture, that can be from Ikea or what you already have. As you said, much easier than moving furniture around till you get it right. Enjoy your new space!
Thanks! The dog was painted by my (extremely talented, not that I'm biased or anything) daughter Jenna. It's Indy, my boy for many years, our Lhasa Apso, now gone. I've tried the Ikea kitchen planner but never the room planner. What a great idea! I'll have to pass that along!
@@TodayinJensSewingRoom I agree--your Jenna is a talented artist!
Jen, Just recently "found" you and LOVE your room! I'd like to know how you fold all your fabric and is it sorted by type? I have a couple of chests of drawers to store mine in, and if it's on the bottom of the drawer it often gets overlooked. Need to re-think my sewing room!!
Thank you Kay! I wrap my fabric on foamcore and cardboard sheets from Dollar Tree, then put them in the shelves like books. It took awhile to do, but I think it's worth it since I can see everything readily. I'm glad you got some inspiration!
Curious about the artwork behind your dress form. Lovely space.
On the one side it's patterns from my childhood that I've framed, using a similar fabric from which they were made as a mat. On the other side it's just a painting from Hobby Lobby, a bunch of miniature army men planning out how to move a pair of scissors to cut a cord that's plugged in! I love art with miniatures; there's an artist I follow on Instagram, Tatsuya Tanaka, who's a genius at it. Below that is a cross stitch I did a bazillion years ago, with a quote from the book of Micah: "Walk humbly with thy God."
I'd love to know how to make the curtain valance please?
Great room! I heard you say "ufo's" a couple times....can you elaborate on that? Cause I didn't see any LOL. Thanks!
Really, you didn't notice those flying around? 😂👽🥏 No really, a UFO is an unfinished object. Some project I haven't dealt with and still need to - some people call them WIP's (works in progress).
I store my patterns the same way. I thought I go and look through pattern books at the store and then get the envelope from the drawer, why not do the same st home. I could not believe I had not thought of that sooner.
Same here. I'm not sure if I thought of it or saw it somewhere - I know I've seen other videos since I did my original one, but I know right? We should've thought of it sooner! 😁
I love your room. I have been trying to fix my sewing space for awhile. I noticed you have a small table for 2 machines. Is that comfortable. I also want to put 2 machines on a table not sure how that will work out. Not sure if I should invest on a bigger table? Thank you for your help.
Thanks Ofra! I'd have a bigger table for my machines if I could fit it into the space. It's tight but it still works. I think it's nice when you have room for an extension table for your machine. I have one, but can't fit it onto the table and have my serger there too.