When I went apartment hunting, I had
a few requirements. The place had to have a washer and dryer, the sink needed a
garbage disposal, and there had to be an airy floor plan with lots of natural
light. I also needed to be able to picture myself sewing there. The week before
graduation I found a desk at a thrift store that I’m pretty sure was originally
used in a hospital, and was also ridiculously heavy. With the help of two of my
friends we moved it to the storage unit I had rented for the month, and after
graduation we moved it into my new apartment, which met all of my requirements.
The second I saw the desk I knew it
would be great for sewing, with a sturdy work surface and a nice cutting space,
as well as ample storage. I don’t have my own sewing room yet, but it occupies
the sewing section of my bedroom, and is lit by the sunshine lamp my parents
gave me for Christmas.
I completed my sewing space by
framing some postcards I had purchased in Bath, England, at the Fashion Museum
there, as well as some fitting reproductions of World War II propaganda from
the Imperial War Museum in London and a print picked up from a Colonial
Williamsburg sale. I also hung a bulletin board so that I could pin up
inspiration, primary sources, to-do lists, and fabric swatches, and my sewing
books are lined up neatly between homemade seashell bookends.
Gowns from the Fashion Museum in Bath |
My sewing books, sandwiched between seashells from Myrtle Beach collected post-graduation |
My favorite print from the CW sale |
My fabric stash is in a tote in my
closet, and my mannequin sits opposite my desk, easy to drape projects around.
It might not be the giant sewing
space with a full wall of windows I think of when I picture my ideal home, but
for my first apartment I’m incredibly pleased!
Lovely pics- my only decoration that's sewing related is a tea towel praising creative mess! [Most apt]
ReplyDeleteWow! It's so neat and tidy! Very pretty. I don't have a sewing room, either, but that means, I have my sweing stuff everywhere, and everything else on my sewing stuff :D
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