Sewing Spot

I often wonder about other peoples sewing spaces.  Do they have a dedicate area?  How do they store their fabric? How is their fabric stored?  Well I thought I'd let you in on my sewing spot(s).  I live in a 2 bedroom town house with a small study area.  The most sensible idea would be to have my sewing area set up in the spare room so I can just close the door and not worry about the mess.  However I often have visitors so this isn't practical.

Primarily I sew in the study area.  Its a great area as it has high ceilings (very very high about 14 feet!) and the light is reasonable.  My sewing table is an old boardroom table from an office I worked at, it's been cut down from a 14 seat boardroom table to custom fit my space.  It works a treat.  This room is now known as Betty Bernina's Room (Betty is my Bernina 820), she shares the room with Sally Singer (the dressmakers dummy - she is wearing a top I am in the middle of making).

Fabric storage..... primarily in the smallish bookcase behind my table.  Plus under my table I have plastic tubs, these generally store my Kaffe fabrics that I've collected for my Flower Garden applique quilt.  I also have a separate plastic tub for all my Liberty fabric.

To the side of my bookcase I also have plastic tubs stacked beside my bookcase.  These store my "in progress" projects - NOTE this isn't all my in progress just the ones that fit nicely into a tub!!!

As space in my study area is so limited, I have set up a design wall in my spare room - which is just a few metres from my desk.  I appreciate that not all my guests enjoy my design wall so I made it so that I can easily take it down.  This design wall was probably the BEST thing I made last year - seriously it rocks!!!  Currently I am working on a sort of log cabin- the bed has all my strips on it so hopefuly no visitors for a little while.....  Another interesting aspect is I often look at the quilt via the mirror on the opposite wall - it gives another aspect to the quilt. When the design wall is no in place I have my Sisters Tree hanging.

My kitchen table also gets used as a sewing area - when I am sewing with Baby Betty Bernina and watching TV at the same time.

Lastly, I would like to publicly declare that my sewing area is very very very rarely this tidy!!!  Due to the rain I decided to spend a few hours going through my sewing area.

Anyone else want to share their sewing areas?