Let's Talk About.... My Studio

My studio is the smallest room in the house. It’s the tiny little 3rd bedroom, upstairs overlooking the street.

As it’s so small it’s all mine, and I don’t need to share it with anyone else. I have just enough room for my work desk with my sewing machine on it, with drawers and a cupboard underneath; a bureau with drawers for extra fabric; shelves for thread and buttons; some deep shelves for ‘stuff’, and a whole lot of books on shelves. I even have some slim shelves for my textile artwork to sit on. As they say ‘small is beautiful’.

On my deep messy shelves sits the radio, which is a cast off from one of my girls, years ago. It’s so old it even has a cassette tape player and CD player. But the radio, with new DAB technology at the time, is always tuned to Radio 4. There is always something interesting to listen to. The car radio is always tuned to Radio 2. It’s peculiar the different habits we get into.

I have buttons galore, colour coded in glass jars, and little cabinets full of thread, old, new, and ancient. Basket upon baskets full of wool for knitting, or weaving, just waiting for the right project. And drawers for all the paraphernalia and detritus needed for a sewing crafty mind.

“So where is your fabric stash?” I hear you say. There is definitely no more space in my tiny studio, so it is in the spare bedroom for all to see, pigeon holed shelves covering the whole of one wall. It all looks like a bit of a tidy up is needed!