Planning Your Home Sewing Center
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Whether sewing is the center of your life or a necessary evil, you will benefit from an area of your home designed for and dedicated to sewing. Having a place where sewing tools such as tape measures, scissors, assortment of threads, etc. can be kept near a table for cutting, an ironing board and your sewing machine saves steps and aggravation. If you are ready to add a sewing center to your life, there are some things to consider.
When And Where
When do you usually sew and where in your home do you do it? Do you devote entire days to a project or do you steal an hour here and there while the baby naps or dinner cooks? For long, leisurely project sewing, choose a well-lighted area with space for your equipment and supplies. If you have to grab time when you can, choose a spot near where the action is. If you can devote a room to your sewing center, then layout is more important than storage. If you share the dining room table with your sewing duties, the kids' homework and dinner, you need a place to put away your projects as you need.
In any event, every sewing center requires a cutting table, a sewing table and a pressing table. In the room-sized sewing center, these would be three separate places close to one another. In a shared dining room, they might be the dining room table, the credenza and the ironing board. For your comfort, the table holding the sewing machine should be 28 inches from the floor for the person of average height. The chair seat should be 16 inches high. A swivel chair or one with wheels is the best to help you move from seam sewing to seam ironing quickly.
Plan a cutting table large enough to hold the size of fabric you will use most. Usually that will be 28 to 36 inches wide and 72 inches long. The table should be high enough to allow you to stand without stooping and should be accessible from two or three sides. If you are confined to a small table, you can buy or make a larger work area to place on top of it. A solid piece of heavy cardboard or light wood can be stored behind a china cabinet or in a closet when not in use. The same type of material can be made to fold by adding some fabric along the fold. Such a thing can also be used on a large table to protect it from the scissors and pins.
Plan for a sewing center with plenty of light and with storage for the thread, patterns, pins and other necessary supplies. Even if the storage is in a different room, you can put together a carryall for your current project to keep things together. The best sewing project is the one with the least amount of stress.
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