Welcome to my Sewing Room - Sewing Room Tour

[@conniekline9881]

My sewing area is in my bedroom as well, and I think yours is set up in an efficient and practical manner. I also am not able to cut my material in the same room as my machines. Your attitude of gratefulness for all that you have is refreshing.

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thank you so much - that's so kind of you 🥰

[@ZeldaSews]

I think your stash perfect! You have plenty of room to go stash shopping!😅 I like your table! We have three of them here, but I don't use them for sewing. My husband uses them for when we have company.

[@DevonThreadTales]

Ha ha - I love that you are enabling my fabric buying habit - lol 😂 They are such great tables aren't they! Thank you 🥰

[@ZeldaSews]

Angela, your room looks so neat! I love Stash Hub. I had not heard of Trello.❤

[@DevonThreadTales]

Oh thank you ☺️

[@sew_So_beautiful]

That makes so much more sense to keep your labels in their packaging on the tin rather than having them loose in the tin. You are the first person I've seen to do it like that. But your way keeps the labels from getting folded and crumpled, and it's so much easier to find the one you are looking for, as well as knowing when you are running out of your favourites.

[@DevonThreadTales]

Yes I like doing it that way!

[@katelavoie2031]

Love it…very organized…I always save tins and boxes and my kids tease me but they allow me to know where things are. I cannot function in a disorganized messy space.

[@DevonThreadTales]

lol I’m the same - and I can’t bare to through pretty tins and things like that away - I always will find a use for them! Thank you 🥰

[@viddy8379]

I too would like to know more about Trello? Cost etc. Stash hub sounds costly. I’m a very visual person so usually write in book changes to Patterns. Good tidy set up but too small for all my machines. Thankyou

[@kirstystephen1215]

Can you do a video with a tour of your trello system? Thank you!

[@DevonThreadTales]

That's a great idea - I will try and do one soon. Thank you 🥰

[@sewndebisdream6953]

Yay! I love sewing room tours!

[@DevonThreadTales]

😂 me too - Thank you 🥰

[@debbiecarter6430]

Thanks Angela. You’re so organised, I’m hoping I’ll be more like that when I grow up! I’m 60 soon so imagine it will happen any minute now 😂 xx

[@DevonThreadTales]

I love this!!!! Yep - any minute!!! 😂 Thank you so much 🥰

[@alisonwilliams3806]

Really impressed with how tidy & organised your sewing room is. I keep saying I’m going to reorganise my sewing room, which desperately needs it but I do need to get my hubby to get rid of a huge double desk & filing cabinet first. Some great ideas & I do need to get the lights you mentioned, so will go & have a good look at them. 😊

[@DevonThreadTales]

Please do! They are such great lights! Aahh good luck with your sewing room. It’s taken me a long time to get the room to how it is - and I do feel like there are still many things I could continue to change. I think it’s one of those things that can just keep evolving 😂 Thank you 🥰

[@sabinerosais1231]

❤❤

[@DevonThreadTales]

🥰❤️

[@barbarawarner4645]

I also leave a single bed in my sewing room for “overflow guests”. But, I’ve put an extra mattress on top of the bed which raises it enough for me to use as a “cutting table” (I’m only 5’1”😂) I lay a IKEA rigid office floor protector on top of that mattress and a large cutting mat on top of that, thus creating a fairly large useable space. The floor protector and mat fit behind the wardrobe when we need to put a guest in there. Thanks so much for sharing your sewing room with us.

[@DevonThreadTales]

That is so brilliant!!! I love that - what a great idea!!! Thank you for sharing this. Thank you so much 🥰

[@greyhaircrafter]

On thingaverse there are scores of custom storage solutions that can add to the ikea peg board. The patterns are free and the things can be 3D printed.

[@DevonThreadTales]

Aaahh wonderful - Thank you so much ❤️

[@marciahighsmith4820]

Oh Angela, that was fun! There are perks to having your kids grow up! It was nice to see how you organized your stuff. I wish we had those storage bed frames here, but maybe we do, I have never seen any. I am sorry about your knees and hope they heal quickly.

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thankyou 😊😊!!

[@ruthlanwarne8978]

Well Angela. You must be the tidiest person I know. Everything is so ordered. With your threads an idea. Someone gave me 2 boxes from hobbycraft where I can keep a lot of threads with the matching spools from leftover projects which is so handy. I also have 2 flexible spool and thread holders. I was very interested in your table as I get such an aching back when bending over to cut out. I bought a fold down table but it doesn’t adjust height wise. So I’m going to look into your one. Firstly I thought your fabric was in the first cupboard until you showed under the bed. You are so organised it puts me to shame. My room is a shambles at the moment😩 Hopefully I can take some inspiration from you. Many thanks. Ruthx

[@DevonThreadTales]

Aaahh thank you - I think sometimes I'm not quite as tidy 🙈 Oooooh - I shall have a look into the spool holders, they sounds like a great idea. I have used the table several times now - and it is definitely a saver on my back! Thank you so much 🥰

[@ruthlanwarne8978]

@@DevonThreadTalesThe spool and thread holders are from Pattern Trace- I’ve just remembered.

[@jeannettehirst5489]

Love this vlog, nice to see other people’s spaces x

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thank you!! 😊

[@jennyturner6399]

Thanks for sharing Angela 💙🧶🌈🍓

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thanks for watching! 🥰❤️

[@KarenMcNeil-en2fn]

Was wondering where your fabric was then wow!! 😂

[@DevonThreadTales]

I know 😂😂

[@angelalysandrou4830]

Great vlog, love looking around other people’s sewing room, the cutting table is a really good idea. Love your fabric storage

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thankyou 😊😊! Yes the cutting table is fab!

[@jooconnor6863]

Nice to have a nosey😎. For my pdf patterns I do an extra copy of the front page and slip it into a clear folder organised into ‘dresses’ , trousers’ etc so I can flip through like a catalogue. Sometimes I forget what I have. I could use trello or stash hub but I prefer hard copy.

[@DevonThreadTales]

That's a great idea!

[@nikkijohnson552]

This video was so much fun! I felt I was kneeling with you to browse your fabric chest! You make miracles in a condensed space, and I’m definitely impressed with your organizational skills!

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thankyou 😊😊!

[@hf3739]

Thank you. Great video. I just love seeing other people's sewing spaces. I'd need to give mine a thorough tidy before I could consider showing people round it. Yours is neatly organised.

[@DevonThreadTales]

You are so welcome! I love a good look around other sewing rooms too 😆 Thank you 🥰

[@shehbazahmadsial353]

Help full information You are so excited

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thank you 🤩 x

[@shehbazahmadsial353]

You are so beautiful madam Your WhatsApp number please ​@@DevonThreadTales

[@van_vinos66]

OMG!!! Everything is so organised beautifully Angela. 😲 I think that's why your makes are always so gorgeous because your space is so organised as well as you being very talented as a seamstress? Would love if you could do a video on how you have set-up your Trello and what info etc you include. Finally where were the lovely new "blue" fabrics from? Are they from Make........? Thank you as always Angela 🥰😘

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thankyou 😊😊! Yes that's a great video idea! They were from Exeter fabrics

[@jennetthamilton971]

You have given me some ideas to organize my sewing room more efficiently. I am going to research the cardboard to wrap my fabric around. I bought a huge dining room hutch from a thrift store. The top part has glass doors and glass shelves, perfect for storing fabric. The bottom has drawers and shelves behind solid doors. I have a similar table but it only has one height. My husband constructed wood stands to set the legs into. Now it is the correct height for me for cutting, tracing, etc. But truthfully I use kitchen island, it's exactly the correct height and my large cutting mat is exactly the same size. I too preferr a cup of tea to any other drink. Years ago, when visiting my cousin in the south of England, we stopped at a coffee/tea shop I asked the owner if I could have my tea in a to go cup so I could sit on the beach and enjoy my tea. This was the end of October and a cooler day. He kindly said oh just take the mug and enjoy my time on the beach. One of my best memories from my only trip, so far, to England. I laughed when you said you tend to buy blue fabric even though you tell yourself not to. I'm the same, but it's pink that draws my eye.

[@DevonThreadTales]

Yes that table is fab! Oh how funny!! Yes I can't resist a bit of blue

[@lauraeoverton]

Great video Angela. You're so organised - but I love that it is evolving gradually and functionally for you. Congratulations to Katie on finishing what is surely one of the toughest training courses around - welcome to the profession! Working as an SLT will be a breeze after uni 😆.

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thank you so much! Yes it’s definitely an ongoing project. Aahh thank you - I obviously have no experience in the SLT world - but I think she will be wonderful at it (bias mum 😂🙈) She just can’t wait to get started! Thank you 🥰

[@LoirRodrigues-zs6mt]

Yes

[@DevonThreadTales]

👍🏼

[@denisedagnone4115]

You are so organised makes me want to move my sewing room around .great vlog 💗🇦🇺

[@DevonThreadTales]

Go for it! Thank you 🥰

[@loriannpayne4483]

Waves of Deja Vous! Fond memories of seeing your sewing room in person. So fun to see it again. I’m so amazed that Katie has finished her masters degree! Wow. Well done! I have the G & G jeans making kit and several from Beyond the Pink Door that need to be made up as well! I am the worst thread junkie! It’s color therapy! Thank you for sharing your special room. Hugs to all.

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thankyou 😊😊! Yes it is crazy to think Katie has finished already!. Oh I love the G & G jeans I hope you enjoy them!! That's exactly what I think, colour therapy!

[@SewMyTime]

Great tour - thank you. You are SO neat. Having said that, I do have a place for everything. You are so right to highlight the back issues with low tables. I came back to sewing after a break of 37 years when I retired and had a purpose built cabin in my garden which I loved. One of the non negotiable things was space for a waist high cutting table. I actually have 2 garden “bar tables” butted together which works perfectly. I keep them aligned with a self made box corner cover made of ironing board material and my cutting mats. I do everything at my table except actually sew and unpick😂😂. When I downsized I took a bedroom for my sewing and of course it had to have room for my table. I have Kalax units beneath for storage so it is perfect. LOL with the notebook comments- mine will outlive me for sure 😂😂😂. Loving your new blue fabric by the way. Happy Sewing. 😊 Lynne

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thankyou 😊😊! Yes the table really is a life saver! Happy Sewing!

[@blossomsandwich4232]

Yay, thanks so much for the Stash Hub shout out! Love seeing your sewing room 😍

[@DevonThreadTales]

You're welcome Yvette - I feel so guilty I don't use it as it is so fab 🙈 I just have such a large amount already stored - I think it would take me hours and hours 🙈 Thank you so much 🥰

[@user-vi3sz3fg2r]

Thanks for the overlocker recommendation :)

[@DevonThreadTales]

Any time! Thank you 🥰

[@brenholmes4894]

Loved your tour, thank you. I am so impressed with how tidy and organised you are and how minimal your stash is, apart from the stored kits :-). Then you opened up the ottoman and displayed your REAL stash. Wow. I feel so much better. I keep a record of all my patterns and fabric on a spreadsheet and feel rather guilty that I have over 130m of dressmaking fabric at present. I am shopping my stash at present and trying hard not to buy any more fabrics. I love your two blue additions to your stash, by the way. My problem is that I took a creative textiles diploma a few years ago and acquired lots of art stuff and additional supplies that I am no longer using and it takes up a lot of space. So, I am going to clear all my arty stuff out and donate it to a local special needs school where my friend's daughter works. I am not arty at all, really. I also have a large quilting fabric stash. I have been sewing like crazy recently, as my overlocker went in for service yesterday and I was desperately trying to get everything done that I needed the overlocker for. I succeeded, but my sewing room is now a mess and tomorrow I begin the clean up before I move on to cutting my one and only kit that I bought a week, or so, ago, the Pilar Jacket by Maison Fauve that I purchased from Beyond The Pink Door. I would so love to visit that shop!

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thankyou 😊😊! Well done restricting what you buy, I don't think I could!! Donating the art supplies is a great idea the children will love it! Have fun with the Pilar Jacket!

[@lindaboby6007]

Great vlog as always a small room but perfectly ordered. Great way of storing fabric ❤❤

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@dianewilliams7931]

Angela, I'm so glad you have a cutting table at the appropriate height. For years I was crawling around on the floor and over time it started to hinder me from cutting out projects as I got older because it made sewing less "fun". A few years ago our office/sewing room became only a sewing room. I bought three adjustable tables from Ikea. They have a crank so you can lower them quite low or raise them to a standing height. One for a cutting table and one each for my overlocker and sewing machine. Best investment I ever made! If you have back or shoulder/neck discomfort while sewing these tables that can be lowered to a lower level than a normal desk or table do wonders. Here in the U.S. we have the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that regulates every industry for worker health and safety. I found a diagram of where the bed of a sewing machine should be in relation to the sewist's body. Adjusting my sewing table to closer to the appropriate level and using an adjustable chair to make up the difference has done wonders to alleviate the muscle tension/tightness in my shoulders and neck that I was getting while sewing with my shoulders scrunched up all the time. (I, of course, still get some tightness when I'm really concentrating and hunching down to see a tricky bit, but now that's from my own bad posture, not because of faulty equipment!😉) Thanks so much for the sewing room tour. I love nosing around everyone else's sewing space! X

[@DevonThreadTales]

Wow that's such a great idea I'll have to look into that! Thankyou 😊😊!

[@lovesredsews]

A love a good sewing room tour! You are soooo neat & tidy 🤩

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thank you!! 😊

[@amandajenn-h3o]

Lovely sewing space Angela & so well organised….thanks for sharing 😊🧵🪡📍

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thank you! 😊

[@sewsisteranna]

Loved this - so organised!!!

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thank you!! 😊

[@CathyJohnson313]

Great video as always. I don’t suppose you would share your tremolo setup? I use it for sew and crochet, but not sure I have it that well organised!!!

[@DevonThreadTales]

Great suggestion! I am thinking of doing a video on this at some point 🥰❤️

[@dianneross2801]

Well, that was fun. Off now to better organise my sewing space 😮😂

[@DevonThreadTales]

😂 Aahh Thank you 🥰

[@pjacksreads536]

Great space

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thank you 🥰

[@annescanapico7168]

Thank you for sharing. It was so nice and so organized

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thank you 🥰

[@angiem767]

thanks for sharing your sewing room

[@DevonThreadTales]

You are so welcome! Thank you 🥰

[@rholt8800]

Oh! I just got set up on Trello! Glad to hear that you like it!

[@juliadroy1179]

Absolutely love your video, your sewing space is lovely and well organised, like you I used to sew on the dining room table but now have a sewing room what a luxury, the serious lighting is great and I'm saving up for one of those and the cutting table is brilliant xx

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thankyou 😊😊!! Yes the lights and the cutting table really do make a difference!

[@greenquiltsgalore1326]

I wondered where you did your cutting; that table and mat set-up is smashing! Great video!

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thank you so much 🥰

[@claireparke7616]

I bought the sudley g and g kit too and realised it wasn’t going to suit me. I used the fabric to make the sudley top and a mave skirt. Faux dress or separates and I really like the sudley top as a blouse.

[@DevonThreadTales]

What a fabulous idea 💡. I love that! Thank you so much 🥰

[@yvonneimms9762]

Thank you for showing us around your sewing room. I did think you were very restrained with your fabrics until I saw under your bed. However there is not as much as some have, but like me agree you have to be brave sometimes and cut into that fabric you like and use it 😊 I do struggle having my threads on show as they can collect dust so don’t have mine out but in a draw ready to use. Like you I don’t use my coverstitch much, but when I do I’m so pleased I have it. I was going to get my machine out and sew but got distracted with your vlog. However you have inspired me to sort out some more of my sewing bits first ❤

[@DevonThreadTales]

Yes I can't really call my fabric collection restrained! Having threads in a drawer is a great idea I didn't think about them gathering dust! I'm glad to have inspired you 😊😊!!

[@paulamattsson8583]

Thank you Angela for sharing your sewing space with us , it has been very interesting to see how you work with what you have,we are very similar how we store our sewing gadgets ❤oh ,and I really need to check that table out it’s seems to be exactly what I need ❤️ I took a corner of my living room(actually quite a chunk of it 😂😂)and changed it ro my sewing space ,and I’m super happy about it.Wishing you a very lovely weekend

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thankyou 😊😊! Yes the table is excellent!!

[@janetwilliams7705]

Very nice!

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thanks! 🤩

[@AngelaBird-vt4tm]

Thank you so much for the tour of your sewing room. It’s reassuring I am not alone in collecting fabric 😊. After watching I also ordered the same adjustable height cutting table as I too get a back ache on my lower tables. It arrived today and will come in great use as I am about to recover a sofa. Can I just ask, does yours have a kind of speckled effect all over the plastic top? Many thank from Angela

[@DevonThreadTales]

He he he - I think we all do a bit of collecting of fabric don't we - lol 🙈😂 It's a great table isn't it. Yes mine has a speckled effect over the top too - hope that helps 😊 Thank you 🥰

[@AngelaBird-vt4tm]

@@DevonThreadTales thank you for the reply. It's a great table! 👍

[@annekelly3280]

Hi Angela, would you have the details/link for the cardboard you use to store your fabric on, please. Great video, really enjoyed it

[@DevonThreadTales]

Hia - I got them from amazon - it was a while ago, but I think that these were the ones : www.amazon.co.uk/Comic-Backing-Boards-Current-Size/dp/B00FTFAITE/ref=pd_ci_mcx_pspc_dp_d_2_i_3?pd_rd_w=qiVqS&content-id=amzn1.sym.8db49f41-2d78-4c1c-bc3b-fb9e44b9efb4&pf_rd_p=8db49f41-2d78-4c1c-bc3b-fb9e44b9efb4&pf_rd_r=5H59DPKJSM7AFN0MMJZ9&pd_rd_wg=1WrwG&pd_rd_r=0bc4c621-a51c-4540-868b-9f1b56cd011c&pd_rd_i=B00FTFAITE Thank you 🥰

[@brigitteusher5277]

I enjoyed your sewing room Tour Angela. Just looked on Amazon for that table, but it doesn't seem to be available at the moment, as I do suffer with a bad back and could do with a table like that 😊

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thankyou 😊😊! Yes the table helps massively, I hope you find one soon!

[@sew_So_beautiful]

I've switched from Trello, only because Trello recently told me I was almost out of room for adding cards in the free version, and I would have to pay if I wanted to add more cards. I don't like Trello nearly as much as Stash Hub, if I have to pay for one or the other, so I am now in the process of switching over to Stash Hub. I have all my sewing patterns and fabrics in Trello, as well as my yarn Stash and patterns, craft supplies, etc. So it will clear up all of my sewing things from Trello so that I have more room for my yarn and other craft items, like paper crafts, painting, jewelry making, etc. I did open a second Trello account though for my little bagmaking business, to keep track of those supplies and how many of each bag type I have, etc. But it's more of a business thing where I also do planning, etc.

[@DevonThreadTales]

Oh yes Stash Hub looks great too! Enjoy all your crafting!!

[@MaryA-yy6fe]

❤❤❤🙏😊

[@DevonThreadTales]

Thank you 🥰

[@vicki3220]

Ok, until minute 37 I was depressed about how much more stuff I have and how you have a reasonable amount until you opened the bed and the whole truth was revealed. 😂

[@DevonThreadTales]

😂😂😂😂 he he he - love that 🥰❤️

[@MsHighpeaks]

Hilarious 😂😂😂😂

[@DevonThreadTales]

😂

[@LoirRodrigues-zs6mt]

Calcinha fio dental uau!

[@StaceyJsStudio]

Noooo not a you thing. I do not understand people that do not colour match their overlockers … I buy my overlocker threads x 4

[@DevonThreadTales]

Yay - not just me 😂 Thank you 🥰

[@StaceyJsStudio]

@@DevonThreadTales heck no. When I was the tailor on the military camp, I need to change for each service. Its second nature to whack that thru within 2 minutes and its such a nicer finish eh 😉 But each to their own I guess. Think it’s because some are still a little nervous about changing them. 🦩💖

[@dandelionsdesigns]

I would love to, but it's amassing the collection. Currently white or dark in my house.

[@StaceyJsStudio]

@ just jumped onto your channel. You embroider - that takes up a load of threads. How do you store them?

[@dandelionsdesigns]

@StaceyJsStudio haha that is a whole other board game. The small spools I have on the wall on two thread stands. I was gifted a few box sets of 1000m, and I just add/replace them if I need a specific colour. The large ones I store on the machine stand. It has a shelf I keep threads and pre wound bobbins on and one for stabilisers and twilly. I'm not brave enough to do vlogs, but I'll do a short onmbroidery thread storage.