SYNTRYZ Stitches

When we were planning to do our sewing room makeover I thought it would be great to have all our sewing machines in one spot. Between Mom's and my collection we have a few and before they were either spread out on tables robbing us of precious work space or stuck under the ironing board or other tables keeping our feet from safely treading. I was hopeful that they would all fit in an IKEA Expedit bookcase and even though I tried to measure I wouldn't know for sure till it was time to load it up. Well all of my sergers fit, [If you wonder why I have so many, they are left over from a commercial account that I use to sew a lot for, some I've worn out but I can still get a few more stitches out of them so I'll keep using them till the end] and I have a few of my larger machines on the table on the other side of the room. What I love about this is that they are all in one place and when I'm done with the one or two I'm using I can put them up and have my table fre...

As I've been posting about our current Sewing Room remodel, I noticed that I never posted our kitchen remodel from a couple of years ago. We've been too busy using it I guess. We love how it turned out and in our small house it made the small space so much more useful.  We used the Ikea cabinet system and it just so happened that they were transitioning to a new cabinet format so when we went to pick out what door-fronts we wanted Mom and I had decided on the white since we have such a small space we wanted it as bright as possible. Well we walked down to the clearance section and they had all the door-fronts from the old system marked down to $2 each. Needless to say we grabbed all we could and ran out of there like one of the old Ikea commercials. Problem was the pre-drilled holes did not match the new cabinet system but that wasn't a problem for Dad. We used Sketchup to lay it all out and it ended up coming out pretty close to our computer design. We ended up maki...

We started remodeling our sewing room. It's been over a year in planning and gathering materials but we've finally started clearing the room out. The ceiling and new lights will be first. Stay tuned.