My View: Messy Studio Table
I haven’t had much time to work on my farm quilt lately. The view of my work table (which is double wide) will give you some clues as to what I’ve been up to instead.
Click for a larger view if you can stand the mess
Let’s see how good you are at solving puzzles.
1 – I’ve been shopping. What have I been buying?
2- Am I warm or cold-natured?
3- Am I organized?
4- Am I neat?
Answers:
1 – Yes. See the dark green L.L.Bean bag on the right. (OK. There was some fabric in there, too. You got me on that one.)
2- I’m warm-natured, which is why I’ve cut the sleeves shorter on the blouse I recently bought. (That, and the fact that I’m short and I always has to hem things anyway.)
3 – Yes. That’s a packing list for an upcoming teaching trip in the foreground.
4- Hah! I think the answer to that one is blatantly obvious!
What does the view from your work space look like right now?
Ellen Lindner
workspace? Ah well lets see, items for a class I will take next week at quilt guild, supplies (and “to do” lists) being accumulated for a class I will teach the first of May, projects to work on at a retreat I will go to the first part of May. Lining up backing/batting/binding for my P.I.G.S (projects in grocery sacks)entry in our quilt show and several project boxes gathering fabrics, threads etc for quilts in progress. Oh my, I need an assistant. J
When my studio was first built, I took plenty of photos because I knew it would NEVER look that organized again. I’ve got three tables covered with projects “in process”. If I can ever get past the wedding and baby quilts I’m making for others (which I LOVE TO DO), then I can get back to things I’ve put aside for myself. No guilt!! Sometimes the BEST fabric combos happen accidentally………things I never would have thought to put together had they not fallen on top of each other….Serendipity!!!!
You win, Joan. 🙂 Glad you have so many fun projects going on.
Great idea, Diane. And you’re absolutely right about ideas coming from a messy table. That has happened to me, too.
I have two large tables absolutely covered with “stuff” – patterns, sketches, pieces of fabrics, lots of books and magazines (all artsy, of course), paints, threads, collage stuff, etc. I am visually oriented/stimulated and love to have things out and about to look at, BUT at the same time, it all gets in the way of being creative. I need to plan a clean-up and organizing session in my studio so I can work in there again!
You sound like me, Maeve. I hate to slow down enough to put all that stuff away. But, pretty soon, I can’t find scissors and other tools that have disappeared under the pile.
I love to see a workspace being used!
Much better than the alternative, right, Sunnie?