New Sewing Home and Post #100

Wow, just saw that this will be post #100! That seems like a milestone of some sort! Hmmm...how to celebrate? Well, I will talk about my new sewing area :) - a post about me!!

You know when you have an idea and it actually comes together like you think it should? Well that's what happened this last week? I had this brilliant idea to move my sewing table into my living room - we spend all of our time upstairs, I hate having the machine on my kitchen table (I have these fantasies that we actually use it for eating occasionally - which we are getting better at), and I have never seemed to enjoy going and sitting downstairs to sew. And, I was ready to move my living room around - I sort of like moving around my furniture, but my mom LOVES to move furniture! BONUS for me! So I give her my idea, bring her over, make some iced tea and she is awesome at helping me make happen what I want to happen. On top of that I decided to move our armoir out of our bedroom and switch it with the bookcase that was previously living in the corner. Then I have somewhere to store my sewing stuff, not quite as accessible to little man and the bookcase is in our room, holding books and not quite as victim to his new found climbing antics.

We got this done on Friday and by Saturday I was getting to sit down and work on a quilt that has been in my WIP (work in progress) pile for awhile now. How exciting! SO, I have wanted to make a quilt from old jeans for a long time now and have been saving and collecting old pairs of jeans for a number of years. And then I recently decided I wanted a picnic/outside blanket for us to take to Music in the Park, baseball games, etc. and found some cute sports flannels at Jo-anns a few months back when they were on sale for about $2.50/yd! So, I put the two ideas together and got my jeans/outdoors quilt. It is a rag quilt, I still need to finish cutting the seems, and wash it so that it will fray and have that rag quilt look, but I am so thrilled that all the pieces are cut and sewn together.

Cutting the jeans was a lot of fun, it was fun going through them and remembering them and when I had worn them. I even had a skirt in there that I had worn in high school! And also some of my favorite jeans from college days, so it's fun that they are incorporated into this quilt now.

I'm excited about my new space and re purposed pieces of furniture. And looking forward to it being easier to pick up a sewing project - at least for the next few months before little one comes.