QA Studio Tour: Quilt Qwazy Queens Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Welcome to the Quilting Affection Studio Tour on the Quilt Qwazy Queens blog hop. 

My studio is not fabulously decorated, but it is a really nice setup.  Before we get started be sure to check out the bottom for the list of bloggers on this blog hop and enter to win for fabulous prizes.

I have two rooms for my quilting studios in my house, since I don’t have one room large enough to be both my sewing and longarm studios.  So we will start with my sewing studio.  Most of my furniture in my studio is Ikea furniture. 

Follow Me! Let the Tour Begin

As you enter my sewing room from the Kitchen/Dining Room you will see my desk on the left, and my girls sleeping area on the right, and the patio doors to the backyard.

 Starting from the left side and work around the room.

This section here is my desk, where all my designs and writing come alive.  My husband just upgraded my computer from a laptop to this nice desktop and 27” monitor.  Above my desk is a couple of bulletin boards made from batting and insulation board.  The top bulletin board is to keep pictures of my in-progress designs and past designs.  Not all of them are up right now, since they will be soon to be released patterns (Secret).  The bottom board is where I keep all my important and reference papers. 

Next to my desk is where my favorite and main sewing machine sits.  My Bernina B580 is where I do my sewing most of the time. The quilt hanging is my newest Mini-Madness quilt for Island Batik Ambassadors.  You can visit my blog on the quilt HERE. 

  

 Next, is the Ikea Wardrobe Cabinet, I store all my fabric yardages, unfinished and need to quilted samples and unfinished projects (UFO’s).  The top shelf is packed full of UFO’s, I have a list of them all above my desk, I have already finished two so far, this year.  On top of the cabinet you will see two sewing machines, the one in front is my first sewing machine, a New Home, and the other is an Antique New Home Sewing Machine. 

This is my second machine, I bought in 2011.  My Janome 7700 is a great machine, I love doing binding and quilting on this machine. 

Next to my Janome is my Light table my wonderful husband made me couple years ago, I love it! The table is made of thin wood and LED lights from Lowes.

Above the light table I have my Bloc_Loc® Rulers hung up for easy convenience (I really love these rulers). My flying geese rulers are hanging on my ruler rack that my dad made me.  The ruler rack is used for all my rulers that I use on a day by day bases.

I have lots of storage space with Ikea Expedit shelving units.  My cutting table is made with Ikea 4-Expedit shelving units. The cubes are place on plywood and rollers. The table part is made from 2 Galant table tops. 

 I used Ikea Cubes and Rubbermaid containers for storing my fabric all around the table.  One end is used for all my reference books.  

For my huge and well used ironing board, I bought at a quilt show couple years ago, I placed it on top of another Expedit shelving unit, and used the Ikea rollers underneath so it is easy to move around when I want to get to my design wall, which is made just like my bulletin boards, but not cut down.

Finally, when you turn around you can see my TV(for viewing pleasure) and were my girls sleep (Two Snoodles) when I’m in the sewing room.

My Longarm Studio 

I have a APQS Millinium Longarm, in another room close by. and love her.   I share this space with my husband due to his desk is set up. When Millie is not in use I cover her up with sheets to protect her. 

Well that’s my studio tour, I hope you enjoyed it and gave you storage ideas.

What more Ideas?

Make sure you check out the out the other bloggers in this blog hop, and see what ideas they can give you for storage, projects, favorite sewing tips, etc.

March 16

Tu-Na Quilts, Travels, and Eats
UCanQuilt2

March 17

Freemotion by the River
KwiltKrazy
FunThreads Designs
Pink Doxies

March 20

Jane’s Quilting
Seacoast Quilter
Words & Stitches
Quilting Affection (ME)

March 21

Thrift Shop Commando
Batts In The Attic
Adventurous Applique and Quilting
Sew Many Yarns

March 22

MooseStash Quilting
Life in the Scrapatch
Seams To Be Sew

Special Offers!

The Electric Quilt Company is offering 30% off discount 

during the Quilt Qwazy Queens Blog hop!

Promo code: EQHOP201 

 The code is good from 3/16/2017 to 3/27/2017

Exclusions: Electric Quilt 7, EQ7 Migration Kit, Upgrade from EQ Mini to EQ7, EQ Mini Migration Kit, EQ Academy classes, and EQ University classes.

Giveaways

Note: Only good for March 20^th, only!  Make sure you enter today. 

Winners will be announced daily on Seams To Be Sew

Northcott Fabrics

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Fat Quartershop $50 Gift Certificate

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Happy Quilting, Tina

#Quiltquazyqueens 

Mini-Madness Project

March is here and the Island Batik Ambassadors are busy with the next challenge.  This month’s challenge is to make a foundation or English Paper Piecing project that measures 24” x 24” or smaller.  Foundation and English paper piecing are not my strong points in the quilting word.  I have only made two project before with foundation paper piecing. 

After doing a little research with a couple books and YouTube videos, brushing up on my paper piecing skill, I designed a little Star pattern in EQ7.  Which designing a paper piecing project in EQ7 was new to me also. I had played with it a little last April at EQ Academy, so I knew the basics, but I still needed help from my manual and a couple blogs.  So, you can say this was a great challenge project for me again this year.

After I picked out my fabrics and I prepared the paper sections.  I began sewing the first block just to get a handle of the whole project.  I had to remember with paper piecing you are basically sewing reverse (your project will face down all the time).  I completed the first block with no problems.

One thing, I notice that paper piecing can be time consuming with the sewing, trimming and pinning of the next blocks.  But I noticed you can speed up the process of the assembly by using chain piecing. What a great idea.  I had all the blocks sections done in no time. 

Once I had all the blocks made, I began assembling them together, to make the quilt top and added some borders to finish it off.  I used my Janome 7700 to do all the quilting on the quilt top.  This little quilt measured 19 ½” x 19 ½” finished.

It was a fun challenge this month.  I have learned a lot about paper piecing with this project.  I want to do more this year, I plan to take maybe a few Craftsy class on the subject if time allows.

Do you like paper piecing?  If so, comment below with your favorite tip.

Make sure you check out the other Island Batik Ambassadors projects throughout the coming weeks.

Tina