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Question Thursday #37

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

30 Responses

  1. jennyg says:

    Yes I would a video tour seeing photos which are static doesn't give the real "feel" of the room

  2. Joni says:

    A video tour would be helpful to see how all these pictures fit together.

    Your blog is always so helpful. Thank you for taking the time to help so many people.

  3. Yes please to a video tour. It would make it come alive and you could see how it all fits together. Great job Leah.

  4. Ingrid says:

    Thank you for all your explanations. Love to see a video-tour.
    At the moment I'm making some rearranging myself. Waiting for my (new!) Juki98 to return from repairing.

  5. Teresa says:

    I love the inspirations you send out on your blog. And put me down for a "yes" to the video tour!

  6. This was helpful but I'd love to see the video tour. Although we don't have the same space, seeing your space gives me ideas for mine. Thanks! ~Jeanne

  7. Thanks so much for sharing your sewing space with us. Would love to see a video. For me no space is ever big enough. I have had space as small as a shoe box to a 12'x14' room.

  8. Thank you so much for being so generous with your time and knowledge. I enjoy your letters so much, and I hope to take the plunge into quilting soon! 🙂 I would love to see a video… thanks.

  9. I found the storage information interesting. I'm not likely to be building kitchen cabinets, but I bought two of the Ikea tables with the adjustable legs because of the earlier post you did when you first got them. I LOVE MY TABLES.

    I've got a totally different question. I'm currently stitching in the ditch on 5 very traditional blocks and there has to be a better way. Do you stitch in the ditch? And if so, do you use a walking foot or do you free motion it?

  10. Pat Merkle says:

    Yes, I would love a video tour.

  11. Yes a video tour would be great! I'm like you, always looking for improvement in this area. I'm trying to talk my husband into letting me move the deep freezer out of my sewing space and in to the garage. But I need a replacement table first. I serves to sit my computer on to watch Netflix as I sew, but a bit inconvenient when somebody wants in the freezer………you know…….to make themselves a frozen pizza because Mom's to busy sewing to cook;) My place is not nearly as big as yours, but it's much better than the kitchen table!

  12. I have been in my house since 2004 and this sounds so much like my own story. I have just recently "finished" my latest reno of my studio space. Too true that there is no "forever" fix. Each day brings new challenges and ideas that you didn't think of before. I'd love to see a video of your space.

  13. Thank you so much for taking the time (away from your quilting!) to share all of this information Leah! I'm in the process of turning a spare bedroom into my quilting room and there are so many options to consider… I've decided for now to just to focus on using the room and gather ideas online. Then I'll be ready to start making changes. And, plan my trip to IKEA!

  14. Hi Leah and all. I've recently discovered your free motion project, set up a blog and I am trying to learn how to use it so I can show you my projects. I love your do it yourself projects as I'm a diyer too. I'd also like to see a video tour. All your explainations and tutorials have helped. i ordered you book but can't figure out how to do the designs without your tutorials. I have been so encouraged by all of you that I got the courage to start quilting a quilt I pieced for my daughter. As soon as I figure out how to link up, I'll post my progress on UFO Sunday.

  15. MC says:

    I would love a video tour!

  16. Joelle says:

    I'd love to get a video tour!

  17. Sharon says:

    I'd love to see a video tour. I also love IKEA. My sewing room is almost completely furnished by IKEA. I have quite a few shelves hung on the wall, a tall Billy bookcase & a 36" high one,& an Alex 6 drawer unit on casters, which fits nicely under my mid-arm quilting machine. It holds a lot of small/mid sized things that would otherwise get lost &/or be piled on a table. I even have a small shelf mounted on the wall at the same height of my sewing table. There isn't much space on the right side of the machine & I was always dropping stuff onto the shelf that holds the machine. Now I have a place to put a drink, & velcro'd my tv & stereo remotes to the edge. Thanks for sharing all this info on organizing your quilt room. After seeing what you've done, I might move some things around. And now that I know what I need to get to keep my rotary cutter from disappearing, Ill have to make a trip to IKEA.

  18. Farm Quilter says:

    I would love to see a video tour of your creative space! I am hoping to convince my DH and FIL to let me move my quilting space from a bedroom on the third floor to the chicken house that hasn't seen a chicken for about 10 years! Getting my LA from "way up there" to "way out there" should be interesting…across the muddy/snowy/dusty/weedy (depends on the season) barn yard…but oh the space out there would be fantastic!!! With a whole bank of south-facing windows 🙂 No heating or cooling as of now, but I'm sure we can figure something out! Otherwise, I'm taking over the guest room!!! I'd love to see how you have solved your storage issues and made everything so handy and clutter-free!

  19. June D says:

    Would be wonderful to see video tour – I also want to see how your back yard is shaping up!

  20. D Smart says:

    I would love to see a video of you using those suspended clamps on bungie cords on a large quilt. How often do you have to change locations? Adding this system to my sewing room is my next upgrade. It would help my planning if I could see it in use. Thanks for sharing.

  21. Thanks Leah ~ enjoyed the tour and look forward to a video one day! Great ideas and inspiration for making a few adjustments when we do my studio renovation next year 🙂
    Godspeed,
    mary

  22. Rilene says:

    Yes, Leah, please let us see a video tour to put these photos together.

  23. MaryLee says:

    I would love to see a video tour because as another person said it would be easier to see how you utilize these spaces and move from place to place. For example, in the picture of the pressing board/cutting table, do you stand on the far side of the table? It's hard to see how much space there is. Thanks for all you do. I just signed up for your class on Craftsy.com. I'm excited!!

  24. I am so happy to have found your free motion videos on you tube. It has changed my quilting 100%. Here is a cheap tip on quilting tables: take one or two of those fold up tables (about $36), get pvc pipe cut into 13 inch lengths and put on legs. Voila, no more bending over to cut or pin a quilt.

  25. elively says:

    Thanks for the photos. It helps to see how you have solved some of the space and storage problems. I'd love to see a video.

  26. Crystal says:

    Fat Quarters and smaller pieces of fabric can also be hung up by using the cheap plastic skirt & pants hangers that come with clothes you buy from places like Wal-Mart. They have the built in squeeze clips and take up minimal space from a height measurement.

  27. Karen Mills says:

    One snapshot would show you my total dedicated sewing space (next to the window in my bedroom). As the quilt grows, I use my bedroom and/or living room floor for layout. Ideas for quite small spaces are welcome.

  28. kupton52 says:

    Thanks for the photos and the explanations….you're always so thorough when explaining anything and that helps so much! I outgrew my tiny sewing room years ago. Now that I'm an empty nester 🙁 I have taken over two of the upstairs bedrooms to use; one as a sewing/cutting room and the smaller as a fabric pantry.Lately I've been thinking about using the space more efficiently and your post gave me lots of food for thought.

  29. sgtsassy says:

    Would love to see a video tour.

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