It occurred to me that I never really posted pictures of my new sewing room in it’s more finished state. I ordered a lot of the furniture from Ikea and it took a while for it all to come in, so the room sort of came together in pieces.

My desks are all Ikea Alex drawer units with Saljan kitchen counter tops for the desk surface. I love how much space I have in all of the drawers and I love how durable these tops are. For the desk in the corner, I used one Alex unit and two of the Adils table legs. I have three desks in total.

The star of the show is my glorious cutting table. I LOVE this thing! I used eight of the Trofast units as the base and the Saljan kitchen island top for the cutting surface. I’m primarily a scrap quilter and so I organized all of my scraps by color into separate bins. I also have bins for my pre-cut pieces, my cutting tools, my small mixed scraps, “string” scraps, WIPs, heat and bond, interfacing, laces and trims, and even zippers. I still have room to expand as well. It is so amazing to have all of this at my fingertips all the time. It’s easy to just grab what I need and easy to put things away as well.

I added shelves to the closet and one wall is double hung with hanging rods for hanging finished garment projects and fabric yardage. None of this was from Ikea, but it’s worth showing as part of the tour.

I also have a quilting design wall made out of foam insulation board and covered in quilt batting.

The most recent additions have been some artwork for the walls, giant wall decals and a fluffy pink bed for my ever present sewing buddy.
The water colors were done by Canadian watercolor artist Angela Fehr. You can watch her paint one of them here.
I designed the big wall decals myself from some of my own watercolor artwork and used a quote from a favorite author.

I still have a few things that I’d like to do in here. One of which is to add valances to the windows. But all of that will come in time. For now, I’m loving my new room and hope to spend many hours in here creating to my heart’s content.