Hi , 

It was so nice hearing from everyone who wrote in last week and shared about their sewing spaces. Here's an amazing studio from Jean H., who was kind enough to write in and send some pictures. I absolutely love her gallery with the railing above!

Jean says, "I love my sewing studio that is attached to my home. It has tons of natural light and lighting ( for those rainy or our northern winters). 

My husband built it for me and it has a tall almost king size design wall and a loft area for storage but is especially useful to get a different perspective of a quilt being designed on the design wall. I have two sewing tables built for my machines. 

My Bernina B 550 sewing machine is in a table my husband made my mom for her knitting machine 50 years ago which he adapted for my machine so it would be flush. I love my studio and use it daily. It’s nice to have it separate when you are working on a project or three you don’t need to put anything away."

And the view from the gallery:

Thank you so much for sharing these pictures, Jean!

Sandy C. also wrote in and shared how her quilting space and quilting style has changed dramatically:

"Hi Leah! I started out quilting on my dining room table. It’s huge & seats 8, so plenty of room for one end to be the cutting station as well.

My only problem was after sewing and I would have to pack everything back up and put it away, which added wasted minutes to set up & take down...

Then just as I was about to retire in 2020, a work friend suggested I take one of my spare bedrooms & make it a sewing room... Sew, that’s what I ended up did & & am SO GLAD I did! My room is 12x12, so it’s not a dream sewing room, but I’m sew thankful for that space. 

Then I stumbled across a quilt group page on FB & someone was discussing the Grace Q’nique longarm & the Qzone hoop frame! Can’t remember if your name was mentioned or if I just stumbled across it when looking online at the the Q’nique. 

Sew, around the end of October of 2020 I was scouting out your website and low and behold you were having a massive sale and promotion. I took the plunge and ordered both with all the extra goodies thrown in. Hallelujah, hallelujah!

Girl…discovering Q’nique has changed my life! I quilted 17 quilts in 2021, haha. I’ve slowed down a little, but still going strong. (I just finished one for a wedding gift & have 2 waiting for binding)!
 

While my room is pretty cramped, I’m forever grateful for the design of the Qzone frame & the affordability the Q’nique longarm provided making my transition into retirement so rewarding!!"

I remember helping Sandy pick out her Qnique longarm and frame. Let me know if you're needing help picking a machine or quilting frame. I enjoy helping quilters find the right equipment to fit their space and budget.

A New Sewing Table for the HUGE Sewing Machines

Several quilters wrote in last week interested in the Kangaroo and Joey sewing cabinet, but unfortunately a few of them had machines too large for the table. 

We've added a brand new table called the Outback XL, which is a beautiful sewing cabinet with an extra large cut out, specifically designed for larger sewing machines.

Click Here to read more about the Outback XL Sewing table.

Just in case this Outback XL looks TOO big, remember, it can be collapsed and folded down to form a tidy little cabinet. The dimensions when closed is just 53 inches wide x 22 5/8 inches deep x 30 ¼ inches high:

Quilt Drag Getting You Down? Meet Our New Suspension Quilt System

This is the Sew Steady Quilt Suspension System - designed to lift and support quilts around your home machine, sit down longarm, or embroidery machine!

The first time I hung a quilt over my machine - suspended from the low ceilings in my basement - I knew this was something quilters needed to try. But when I shared my awesome DIY quilt suspension ideas, complete with drilling holes and hanging hooks from the ceiling, many quilters didn't like the idea.

Now we have a clamping quilt suspension system that connects to your table top or machine extension bed and gives you the same lift and weightless effect - with no damage to your walls or furniture.

This easy to assemble clamping system will suspend your quilt around your machine, making it much easier to push your quilt over the table or to support your quilt while you embroider it. Click Here to learn more.

Learn All Over Quilting - Multiple Methods and Techniques

All Over Quilting is a process of covering your quilt with one single quilting design. It's fast, easy, and such a great way to finish a quilt quickly so it can be used and enjoyed.

I've recently revamped my All Over Quilting tutorial and it now includes 6 quilting videos to cover all the different ways you can do this style of quilting. Turns out, All Over Quilting can be a very different process depending on the way you set up your machine for quilting.

In this tutorial I cover how to quilt with:

• Free motion quilting on a home machine in a table
• Walking foot quilting on a home machine
• Free motion quilting on a home machine on a frame
• Longarm quilting with pantographs on a frame
• Computerized longarm quilting on a frame

This is the most comprehensive quilting tutorial I think I've ever written! It pulls together lots of videos and concepts that have taken me over a decade, and many machines to learn. 

I didn't even realize there were so many ways to achieve the same quilted effect, so I learned quite a bit by writing this and pulling together all of my thoughts on the subject.

If you'd like to quilt your quilts quickly, with a very simple, utilitarian quilting design, make sure to check out our new All Over Quilting Tutorial here.

Of course, you may be needing some quilting designs to use... and I have that covered too! Click Here to find our new All Over Quilting Design page. 

This collection will continue to grow as I add more quilting designs that will work nicely for All Over Style Quilting. 

I plan to add more design collections like this to LeahDay.com over the next few weeks. Are there designs and tutorials you wish you could find more easily? Let me know in a quick reply to this email!

That's it for this week, . I had so much fun hearing from all of you about your sewing studios, rooms, nooks, spaces, and outbuildings. This is an amazing craft and I love seeing how we can be creative in any space.

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day