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Making Creative Quilt Designs With Freedom

This week, I'm in Heaven. When we moved into our new home, it was with the understanding that my husband and I would share the second largest bedroom as our office while my sewing studio would be set up out in the garage. He also asked that a desk and matching bookshelves be set up in the living room because of the blank wall in that area. The light pine desk and shelves look fantastic along that yellow wall.

Well, it turns out that my husband now wants the living room desk for his office space. This means that I get the big bedroom all to myself for my office and sewing room. I am so excited! I really was not looking forward to making quilts in the garage. The lack of windows and light, the cold in the winter and heat in the summer, and sharing the space with the laundry and our household storage just wouldn't help me be creative.

While unpacking and setting up the house has been exhausting, I have been unpacking the office and sewing boxes happily for the past two days. Today, the room is finally coming together, and there is room for everything except my long-arm quilting setup. And, it's missing space to store a lot of my quilting supplies. The closet was already converted with shelving and drawers, which is excellent, but, I have much more than what it will hold. My three fabric cabinets will not fit into the room. However, there is plenty of room in the garage for those. As a bonus, our new home is all on one level, so I won't have to go up and down several flights of stairs between sewing and storage areas!

Even though my long-arm quilting setup will be out in the garage, I don't see it as an inconvenience. First, it only gets used a few times a year. Second, I'm so enamored of quilt embroidery right now that most of my quilts are finished that way. Because my embroidery machine will be in the office/sewing room, I can use my machine embroidery quilt designs in comfort with a great view into the backyard garden.

I do have a couple of quilt tops ready for the final quilting. I'm looking forward to adding the embroidery quilting that is so much more elegant than what I can accomplish on the long-arm. Because the embroidery machine does the work, I have time to do other things like stitching more patchwork, vacuuming the carpet or playing a rousing game of solitaire on the computer. I love making quilts, but I love even more having the option of quilt embroidery to help me out.

With the prospect of my new office and sewing space, I've found so much new energy to keep unpacking and organizing our things. I was getting very tired of it before. Now, I want to keep going so that I can utilize that sewing space, set up the storage for my quilting supplies and get back to the super enjoyable tasks of making quilts and embroidery quilting.

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