Would you like the tour?

You remember weeks and weeks ago I started cleaning up my workspace, then got bogged down with other things, including making a few little pieces. I finally finished the job today. I have to admit that pictures of people's sewing rooms/studios are a bit boring, but I understand now why people post them. When you finally get it all cleaned up you just have to share it with someone! So, come along with me on the tour—it won't take long and you won't be required to walk very far.

Here we are standing in the hallway just outside the door. Straight ahead you see part of my stash. These are the fabrics I am currently using most often, filed semi-neatly in the dishpans I bought at the dollar store. More dishpans are in the shelves at the right. That blue-gray carpet is a pain. Threads and snips stick to it like velcro.

Just inside the door, to the right, is the closet where the rest of the stash lives. This closet is very deep to the left. There is a lot of stuff in there. The closet didn't have a door on it, so I made a curtain out of an antique sheet with beautiful tatting across the top edge. The little plaque says, "when life gives you scraps, make quilts"—a long ago gift from my friend Muriel when I first started quilting.

Now, swiveling around to the left you see the sewing/pressing station and the requisite little tv set. The bulletin board has all kinds of stuff on it. There's a poem up there by Alice Walker called, If There Was Any Justice (I'd own van Gogh's Starry Night). I have never seen a quilter's bulletin board that didn't have quilt show ribbons on it. That cute little '50s style secretary's chair is from my Dad's office. It is very comfortable and adjusts and rolls.

Here's my work table. It is counter height, so it's very comfortable to stand and work or cut on. The flannel-covered board has current projects as well as that mandala piece that didn't work for a piece I made years ago, but I like it so well I keep it out, hoping I will figure out something great to do with it. I thought about making it into a clock. It has 12 points. The crow is my journal quilt, which I am not supposed to show on my blog or web site. Forget you saw it. You can only see part of it, anyway, so I don't think this counts. The gray thing on the right is my lightbox. My favorite tool. I use it constantly. I bought it at a yard sale. What a find.

And in this drawer—oh wait—I wasn't planning to show that. Avert your eyes. Move along.

Ray came up to admire the cleaned up room and suggested he take my picture. Then he made me a tall, cold drink. What a guy.