I'm fine now, but not quite ready for the retirement that I had planned. In May I will be out of the piano teacher business. I have been teaching since I was 15. I'll miss it, especially my students, but I have to find a way to simplify my life. I'll still have my regular job for a while, but I'm hoping to depart that business also, maybe in another year.
I've used some of my free time to organize my house by moving my sewing room from an old room that has not been remodeled since the '30s, (I live in a 100-year-old house) to a bedroom that I dismantled. Here are some shots of the move.
This is a wall in my old sewing room. Note the old wallpaper. It was a kitchen at one time when the house was divided into apartments.
My husband setting up my cutting table while I organized the sewing machine area.
Oh, how nice it will be to have all of my threads at my reach and so easy to see the colors.
My collection of Godey's prints from old magazines.
And the part that will make any quilter's heart beat is my "stash." That's what we call all of our fabrics. We can never have enough. For me, buying fabric is an obsession as much as buying daylilies. This is really just a portion of the cotton. I'm still organizing.
Now here's my room, completely finished.
This is my flannel board with blocks from the quilt that I am working on for my husband and an applique block that has been in the works for quite a while.
With this room of my own and the garden shed I got last summer, I am a happy woman.
I know this post has not been about herbs or my garden. I just thought you would like to know what I had been up to for the past 4 months. Thanks for sticking with me. I'll be posting now and again throughout the winter, about herbs and other things, and then more often when the garden blooms.
5 comments:
Good to see you! Great pictures, and I just love the woodwork. This is what I grew up with. The built in cupboard is wonderful. So very sorry about the bad dentist experience. No wonder people don't like to go.
How exciting to have a new sewing room with plenty of space.
I wish I had a place to have all of my fabric organized to I could find what I need more easily.
I hope you enjoy creating in your new room now that you will have more time!
I love the little quilt with the sewing machine on it! Did you make it? Isn't it great to have a whole room to sew in with every thing handy ??
Forgot to say that I love that applique block you are working on! Beautiful!
Mary, yes, I did make that sewing machine quilt. I saw the pattern and knew I had to make it because it looks like my Singer featherweight.
Thank you for the compliment on my applique block. Can you believe it, it's still hanging in that same place. I can't seem to get back to it. I have a few others in the works and I always mean to go to it next and then something else comes up. I thought I would not be like other quilters who have so many started and never completed. I've got to get busy and at least make it into a pillow cover!
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