WAZOO! Newsbits: Wazoo Quilt Studio 2024

Wazoo Quilt Studio 2024

No clean up before taking these pictures. I thought you may like to see what it looks like daily! A disaster!!

Welcome to my sewing studio! Mr Wazoo added the screen door so I could hear birds sing on nice days.

We had two windows installed when the storage room was being made into a studio. I need to be able to see outside. No dark, windowless basement for me.

I'm a sucker for weird things like this peas in a pod piece.

Most of my stash. The bigger pieces, at least. Karen Brown over at Just Get It Done Quilts added up her fabric yardage and ended up with a tally of over 1200 yards. I shudder to think how much I have...I am not going to count it! Check out Karen's de-clutter challenge, too. It is genius. I hope to do it soon...

The Big Gammill is dormant right now while I endeavor to learn custom quilting with the Handi-Quilter. The table has become a catch-all of stuff waiting to be given away. Panels are in the big tote on top of the shelves on the left, along with a smaller bin of binding I didn't use. On the right of the strip bins are small bins of silks, eye spy squares, Kaffe strips and scraps and one UFO.

This is Ann old photo, but I wanted you to see the Gammill better. Notice the stash is rolled instead of folded. I like the folded look better, but it is harder to get out a piece.

Behind the Gammill. The stash shelves topped with my strip bins. I cut leftover fabric from projects into 5 sizes and two bins for strips that are odd sizes. A pad for emergency toileting for Penny, and rolls of batting.

Along the back wall are shelves with slide out drawers for my thread. So Fine, King Tut, Omni, Glide, Signature, Permanent Core, Mettalics and Bottom Line. The bobbin winders and longarm rulers are here, too. On the red tool cabinet are two projects waiting to be made and the microwave for my afternoon popcorn!

If you ever watched. Alton Brown's cooking program from his kitchen, he has a chicken like mine! We got this chicken and egg paper mache` sculpture on a trip to Captiva, Florida for lunch.

Tool chest from Home Depot holds supplies, especially my snack stash of granola bars, peanut butter crackers and popcorn. Zip lock bags, rope bowl supplies (the brown bag to the right holds the off cuts I use for bowl making) quilting stencils and other non-fabric items. This chest lives under my cutting table. It is always half covered with stuff to be put away when a quilt is finished.

In my small half bath, I keep my inventory of quilts I use for trunk shows and class samples. As I make new quilts, I give away the ones that I know my family isn't interested in. The two wall hangings are from classes I have taken.

Here is a better view of the quilts. I have at least 50 more upstairs on ladders, quilt stands, in baskets, on the wall and on the beds, of course!

This is my latest acquisition, a tool chest from Home Depot. It holds all the fusibles, freezer paper, interfacings and pattern making paper. The drawers have fabrics that are together for a specific quilt pattern, or specialty fabrics, like my stash of Japanese fabrics and indigoes. We had enough room, so there is now a water cooler next to the red cabinet. No more bottled water. The cabinet is really swanky; it has a 3 outlet, one USB port attachment one the side, making it easy to have the microwave there.

This chair side chest has hand sewing supplies and fat quarter bundles. The Ott light helps me see what I'm doing when doing handwork.

Bobbin winders for both lonngarms, and a container of bobbins.

My Forte` HandiQuilter.

Rolling batting holders courtesy of Mr W.

Pegboard with hoops, knee lifters for my machines, Specialty scissors and embellishments.

Bigfoot barn quilt watches over my cutting rulers and a chest of small drawers with all kinds of notions.

Mr Wazoo got this off the curb in front of a neighbor's house. He asked if they were throwing it out, and they said to take it. He painted it white and I added the labels, courtesy of my typing whiz sister. It holds everything that doesn't go somewhere else!

The 'office' area is on the left, design wall in the middle, and the Janome sewing station on the right.

Forte with a quilt in progress.

My books and ironing station.

Mr W made the quilt hanging rack. I change the quilt every month or so. For the colder months, I have a gas heater on the wall.

My headquarters! This is my sewing area. I love watching the wildlife outside while I work.

Ikea drawers for my fat quarters, pre-cuts and the stereo. Yup, I listen to CDs on Sundays when I sew.

The drawers come out so I can carry them to the cutting table.

Next to the Janome is the air purifier. It handles a lot of the lint in the air. The tubes on the side of the cabinet hold my snappers for loading quilts.

Self explanatory. ha ha! The carved box holds my little dog, Molly's cremains.

I love hanging things! Here are some cute birds I got in Paducah.

Japanese origami cranes from my son and daughter-in-law.

School of fish and one red worm.

My mom had these hummingbirds. They remind me of her daily.

I made this one. We had a challenge in a Florida guild and were given a fat quarter of Laurel Burch fabric to use. We could make anything we wanted. Of course I waited until the night before it was due to do mine. I went outside, picked up a broken branch and went to work. I fused the fabric to a nice batik, cut out the birds and leaves and balanced them , suspended by fishing line, along with some beads and sequins, into a mobile. I rather liked it and took it along to guild to be displayed with all the other projects. Members voted on their favorites in the display. Two ladies were in front of me with their ballots in hand when one whispers to the other, "What is it?" Without missing a beat, the other one says, "It's a stick!" It was all I could do not to burst out laughing. Yup, it's a stick. Didn't win, but I have had it in the studio ever since.

I got this mobile from a shop on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin when I was 16 years old. A few of the sails are missing, but it is my favorite and has been hanging in every place I have ever lived. The boats sail gently around when ever the heat or air come on.

A place to hang masks and Penny's leash.

My bird clock, tweeting out a different birdsong on the hour for many years. Sometimes it startles my customers.

Things people give me live here, on top of the bookshelves. My favorite things; Chickens, buttons and monkeys.

Under both lonngarms are plastic drawers with projects in the works, specialty fabrics like wool, flannel and minky, and balls of Perle cotton.

Over my machine is this lovely girl flying a kite. I got her and the other kites and stars mobile in Blue Ridge,GA. They came from different shops, but go together perfectly!