The REAL Studio Tour - tool

 

                                                     To The Coop and Saucer Playroom

And a real welcome to visitors for The Real Studio Tour.  I am happy to have visitors.
But I must confess that this is just about killing me!  I really am messy and my studio is usually messy but my most favourite thing in the whole wide world is arranging artful vignettes and styling pretty photos.  And I don't think this is gonna rank up there with the prettiest.  ;)  ha, maybe the most memorable!  ;)

Sew...

I started with traditional quilting.  I had the quilt police firmly fixed in my mind.  ;) When the quilt stack got really high it began to lean towards art quilts and then did a very rapid slide into mixed media fibre art.  I did try to keep the wet stuff over on the left side and the dry stuff  on the right but once again I went from lean, to slide, to sloppy!  If this ever becomes the primary bedroom again it will need to have the floor refinished! :(  But I also started losing track of what the quilt police thought. ;) ;)

My favourite non traditional tool took a bit of feather fluffing.  I'm a bit of a tool junkie so I tend to collect the real deal.  But I think my favourite non traditional tool would have to be a telephone book, a thick one.  Surprised?

I really am a bit of a dizzy chick and I very rarely sit down.  I did buy a traditional sewing cabinet and it is buried under my craft table because I finally figured out that sitting down to sew didn't work for me.  I was getting a crick in my back sliding in and out as I picked up patches from my design wall which was out in the hallway!  Then I read that Hari Walner did her machine quilting standing up.  Really!!!  I didn't know that was allowed.  But it made sew much sense to me.  I put my drop leaf craft table at the end of the sewing cabinet and parked my sewing machine on top of it and I haven't sat down since.  No more cricks in the back and I do believe I am saving time by not sliding and sitting, nor sliding and skipping.  But some times I felt like a horse that kinda stands wonky and with one hoof poised.  Hence the thick telephone book.  I stand on it and my driving foot presses on that pedal.  :)  I think this works as well if one sits to sew.

Now I am in the midst of another favourite activity and that is organizing everything. I'm purging because all this clutter is making for a very messy nest. This auction sale find is an old wash stand. My Rooster trimmed it down a couple of inches and my Nina is ready whenever I am and most of her accessories are in the cabinet.  I pruned my books so I needed a dual purpose book. I don't do much phoning in my studio so I found a Vogue Sewing book that makes a nice foot rest and if I ever get back to garment sewing I can use it for reference! ;)

Sew glad you hopped by!  I shall be hopping  about myself during this Real Studio Tour. I hope I don't get a ticket from the quilt police. ;) ;)                   

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