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Post by MTRuth on Apr 12, 2018 16:33:24 GMT
Hi Everyone,
Karen L. had an excellent idea for a blog post. I recently posted a couple of my studio room photos and talked about the chaos of my room and working habits. Karen suggested that I could do a blog post about our member's "studios" or place where you work. It would include photos of your work space, not cleaned up but how it generally looks. Karen put it this way "it not only made us feel better about our own creative “chaos” but also allowed us to picture our friends in their place of work."
There are lots of magazines and online sources that show these amazing, beautiful and showcase studios but I don't think that is the reality for most of us. I think it would be great to show the "real" work space of a felt maker or fiber artist.
If you're interested, please either reply here or send me an email with a 'chaotic' photo of your work space and a few comments about your space if you have them. Let me know what name I should put with your photo whether it be a user name, real name etc. You can send email to laneruthe @ gmail
Looking forward to seeing everyone's chaos!!
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Post by tracey on Apr 12, 2018 18:05:06 GMT
That is a great idea! I remember a post from Annie of Rosiepink making a tiny card for someone I think (Lyn may put me right) and her table was a gorgeous chaotic mess of nearly every craft item conceivable, I felt I wanted to sit there and look through all the crafting materials!
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Post by lyn on Apr 12, 2018 21:21:52 GMT
Yes Tracey - you remembered correctly! Here's the mess she made whilst making a tiny card.  It's just as well that you can't see the rest of the room ... |
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Post by tracey on Apr 13, 2018 5:19:19 GMT
I still want to sit there picking things up and putting them down!!  There's the cup of tea that probably went cold AGES ago.....
As for the rest of the space we cannot see, I think the word 'room' may be incorrect, probably more of an Aladdin's Cave! Bliss. |
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Post by lyn on Apr 13, 2018 7:53:12 GMT
You may also have noticed the timer? Annie is too impatient to wait in the kitchen even for just the time it takes to heat a tin of beans and pop some toast - hence the timer as it saves the smoke alarm batteries.
Yes - I'd say Aladdin's cave is a good description of Annie's room. Sensory overload usually happens when I go in to it.
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Post by Ann @ frabjous fabrica on Mar 17, 2021 9:59:09 GMT
I've been doing a bit more browsing into previous threads (anything to avoid the hoovering!) and I spotted this one. I thought I'd show you not my workshop - I haven't had the time or the brass neck to take any photos yet - but my friend Lynne's workshop as it was BP (Before Pandemic). The workshop is in a sort of wooden summerhouse at the end of her and her daughter's garden. When they first moved to this property on the border of Somerset and Dorset in the UK, the daughter and her husband into the house and Lynne into the granny annex, Lynne turned the existing summerhouse into her own work space, and called it The Hideaway. It was very luxurious compared to some: Hand woven rugs on the carpeted floor, space for the couple of weaving looms she had, her spinning wheel, a work table, somewhere to brew her coffee, comfortable seating, bookshelves etc., etc. Then the community workshop she used to attend folded and she acquired some of the looms and moved them and her particular friends from that workshop into the Hideaway. That was when she installed a wood burning stove so that we could work all year round. My sister, who was also a weaver, and I used to travel from Dorset, she to weave and me to needlefelt, once a week. In the summer we sat outside on the veranda to work - although I had to keep out of the sun and also watch that the breeze didn't nick my fibres. I've lost count of how many looms there are now in the space but as you can see from the pictures, it's a little cramped. There are usually around 6 of us there, plus the family's 2 and dogs and devil of a cat who likes to get in the store cupboard and open up all the boxes of yarn and generally play havoc. It will be so good AP (After Pandemic!) to get back there, although I'll be going alone now as I lost my sister last year, not to the virus but to old age, she was 14 years older than me. I think my family is setting up a tradition of making birthdays into deathdays too. My mother died on her birthday, my sister on mine - that was some present Jean, thanks!
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Post by MTRuth on Mar 17, 2021 15:35:44 GMT
What a lovely space and you all look like you're having such a grand time. It seems that the more space you have, the more things you find to fill it up!
I am getting excited by the fact that all of the people in my local group who used to meet once a month, all have their vaccines. Therefore, I think that we will be able to start meeting again in April. Yay!
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 17, 2021 16:23:47 GMT
What an amazing-looking space. So pretty and bright. You are a lucky group. I am sorry to hear you lost your sister, I hope there are lots of happy memories in the hideaway. We will all be happy when we can meet up with our friends again and have some fun with our fibres.
My husband wants my space for baking so I am supposed to be moving studio again. The bonus is I end up next to the washroom and the carder and picker should get their own space. I should end up with more felting space and hopefully be able to hold workshops. We are aiming for early spring but I think it will be later.
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Post by lyn on Mar 17, 2021 16:38:09 GMT
Wow - what a workshop Ann!
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Post by Ann @ frabjous fabrica on Mar 17, 2021 18:45:16 GMT
What a lovely space and you all look like you're having such a grand time. It seems that the more space you have, the more things you find to fill it up! I am getting excited by the fact that all of the people in my local group who used to meet once a month, all have their vaccines. Therefore, I think that we will be able to start meeting again in April. Yay! My husband's always accusing me of filling up space - he's refused to put up any more shelves as i have enough clutter - blooming cheek! My own workshop is actually one end of our lean to conservatory which means it's too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. I have to keep clear the passage from my door to my husband's workshop door - it's in the garage. It also contains the washing machine and tumble dryer so space is a bit tight, but I do have a fantastic work bench/table. It is really wide and tall so that I can do all sorts of things on it. It is also on wheels so that I can move it away from the wall to get at something from all sides - but with difficulty because there isn't much room to move it far. I will try to put together some pictures for you to see how I store my stashes of fibres, fabrics etc. |
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 18, 2021 17:54:22 GMT
Ann that does sound cheeky. I bet he has filled the whole garage too and I bet he doesn't make any money in there either. I started in a 3 season studio, in the trailer part of a tractor-trailer. My husband did put in an old furnace and a window air conditioner to help but with no insulation, I couldn't use it when it was cold. so in winter I set up in the living room and being in the way a lot helped get the thinking caps on to find me space. I do have to say he has always been very supportive so I can't really complain.
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Post by lindsay on Mar 19, 2021 8:24:04 GMT
That’s a beautiful space, Ann. It has the added bonus of me being glad I don’t do weaving! I moved studio last summer from a tiny L-shaped room to a small rectangular one. It’s in the same place (an old industrial building) and only a few metres away but it is a much better space. Unfortunately, the move didn’t transform me into a tidy person. Who’d have thought?! So now I’m just as messy but with lots more shelving and more floor space to ‘store’ things on.
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Post by lyn on Mar 19, 2021 9:29:17 GMT
I'm messy during a project but as soon as it's finished everything goes back into its rightful place.
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Post by Ann @ frabjous fabrica on Mar 19, 2021 10:02:16 GMT
I'm messy during a project but as soon as it's finished everything goes back into its rightful place. That's one of the things I'm always kicking myself about. I tell myself that yes I'll put it all away tomorrow, I'm too tired now - and that's as far as it gets. One day! Yes my husband has taken over the whole of the garage - the car sits outside permanently - but he does support me fully, it was he who made the fantastic work table. If I ever get round to doing a picture for you, you will see that in fact I don't have much more wall space for shelves there - - but I do in my bedroom. |
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There's the cup of tea that probably went cold AGES ago.....
