Sewing Room Redo Part I

So I started sewing my window treatments
 this past Saturday,
FINALLY!! I've only had that

room for 4 years now!

So in my last post

I actually showed you my workspace,

but I knew if I did that

then I would

have to

work on it, so I did, on Saturday, YEA!!

I sewed the window

treatments on all three windows that I have,

Front window:

Just a simple roll up shade, nothing

fancy,

Don't you love my little sign:

Casa Bella,

I found it at Marshalls sometime

back and only

paid 5 dollars for it, so I was very

happy.

Now, my side window which I get to

look out of when

I'm at my sewing machine:

I love this spot, because I have a window

box there, and in the

spring and summer with flowers blooming

it looks pretty.

I can also look right at my house so if DH needs

me he can get my attention.

Now the back window:

You can see part of my fabrics there,

I need to find room

for more of my fabrics, I need to

get another storage

unit in there.

I have an old antique dresser in my room

but I need to paint it

and put it in our guestroom, so I'll need

something to store

all my papers, and extra fabrics and ribbons.

I have a cabinet in the

garage that needs alot of TLC so I may end

up putting that in here.

We'll see.

I will be adding a list on the right side of my

blog showing what

still needs to be done in my sewing room.

Today, I was able to

clean it well, steamed mopped the floors as well

so now its clean, no shoes in

there either, especially

on snowy or rainy days, its just makes my pretty

floors all dirty!

So there you have it ladies, I did my window

treatments. And it

didn't even take me that long to make either.

Except for when I had to

run back to

Hobby Lobby and purchase more ribbon, I

ran out!

Nothing more frustrating than that. I was on

a roll, and darnit, I ran

out of the black and white ribbon to tie up the

treatments with.

When I got there, they had only one left, and

thank goodness, that's

all I needed to finish this project. Hope you like

it, I do.

Sewing Extravaganza

On Monday when I got up from bed I was determined to get some sewing done around the house. So I thought, its time to make my shower curtain and bathroom window curtain as well. I had everything layed out on my table in my workshop, so excited. I love to sew, but I still need to get myself psyched for it. Not sure why, but when I do, then I can't stop. I'm the Tasmanian devil then. I have to make myself stop in the middle of a project to go and use the bathroom or even get a bite to eat. Because once I start that's it, you can't stop me. So I layed my fabric out so you can see what I would be using: This is my winter colors. For some reason when winter comes around, some people tend to use dark colors. Which in turn makes a room darker. I can't do that! We have so little sunlight during the winter, and I hate it when we have to turn our clocks back (that's another subject I can easily get into) by 5:30 I feel like I'm ready for bed already. I don't like it at all! So this year I wanted cheery colors for the winter. Winters here in PA can be dreary and dark and that can be depressing. I like when it snows because it brightens things up outside without any sun. Anyway, I wanted pretty cheerful colors and I love floral and strips or plaids together and add some tassel and VOILA! you have happiness in a room even if it is gloomy out.
I don't know why, but I took no pictures of me cutting fabric, but you know how that goes, right? I had to move my project into my dining room since I needed a larger table to lay the fabric on to cut it. That wasn't fun, since my fabric kept trying to slide around on me, and if a piece of string was dangling then my cats thought it was play time. Or if there was enough fabric hanging over onto the floor, they thought it was nap time. I couldn't figure out why the fabric was quickly sliding down until lo and behold, but fat cat was trying to curl into it which made the fabric slide in a very quick manner. Bad kitty!

Sewing the hem of the fabric here above

Now adding the tassel. I love trims, they make such a difference.

The finished product

Can you see my window treatment? (Above)

The pretty tassels! I thought of adding them to the bottom of the fabric but what in the world was I thinking, I have cats! It would of looked like a massacre one morning, with tassels everywhere. That would of been bad!

No matter what I did, the camera would not flash for this picture because of the light coming in through the window.

But this gives you a better view of my bathroom with the window treatment.

So there it is. All done in one day. A whole day actually but what a feeling of accomplishment. Next is my bedroom windows. I bought a beautiful fabric for in there for this winter as well. So that'll be my next post hopefully. As well as sewing window treatments for my workshop. That one is way overdue. And I purchased fabric for our living room windows and it is MIA! What in the world happened to 7 yards of beautiful brick red toile fabric? The last thing I remember was holding the fabric up against the sliding doors with some tassel that I thought may work, then I folded the fabric and put it in the package it came in, and that is it. My mind goes blank. What did I do with it? I'm frustrated with myself. My hubby says its got to be here somewhere, but "here" where? We don't have that much storage here and so there is very little places it can hide, how do you lose 7 yards of fabric???!!!!