My Sewing Corner

Let me introduce you to my sewing corner...BEFORE and AFTER my new sewing table and machine.

Here is what my sewing area started out like when I first set it up in my apartment.  It's in the corner in my bedroom and it's a nice little spot.

THIS is what that spot has turned into!  YIKES!  I guess you can tell where I've started spending a lot more time

Here it is NOW:

Having the stronger/smaller sewing table actually gives me more room.  It also gives me storage AND I now have a cutting table...the folding table I used before slides between the wall and my bed and I can just pull it out when I need it!  I think this corner looks a lot better.  The thread board on the floor to the left of the table will eventually be hung up too.

Now to officially introduce my new sewing machine!

I am a little scared of it right now...I need to practice on it and make sure I will be able to sew properly with it without screwing things up but I am excited!

My grandma (Grammy) is a cute lady.  I really love her.  She likes to label things and keep seemingly worthless items just for fun (I guess).  Actually, I think she does a lot of it so she doesn't forget and if anything happened to her others would know what to do with things.  Well, when I was going through all the boxes she gave me of sewing stuff, first I found this:

It reads: "An extra button for Cathy's Easter dress 1971" --Cathy is my Aunt Cathy!  I think it's sweet and funny that after all these years (almost 40 years) we found that extra button!  I mailed it to my Aunt, I thought she might like to have it.

But I really enjoy this...it came with the sewing machine:

The original invoice from when my Grammy bought her sewing machine on September 8, 1980 for $199.  She bought this machine 4 years before I was even born and for a LOT of money!  I think this is a really precious piece of information.  If I ever have a daughter to pass this machine down to I hope she treasures this little "note" as much as I do.

Anyway, that's all for my post today.  My brain is just so anxious to get my project started...however, I really need to wait until January so I can do a full calendar year...starting on an odd month will just be akward.

So, as always, stay tuned.