My "dedicated" space is both my room, which serves as my own personal needs. I have my sewing machine on my desk which is multi-purpose, and it's where I play/practice fiddle and mandolin, and where I hang on the computer when I don't want to deal with organizing my stuff.! LOL!
And really, my experience and level of "expertise" is more on a par just above the "beginner" level, than it ought to be considering my age and many failed attempts in the past to pursue the craft.
I do however have access to a fabulous sewing room at the local Senior Center once a week, located a few blocks from where I live. A 4 hour drop in sewing "class" (no pre-enrollment) for a $5 donation. (that's practically free)
It is equipped with 3 very large work tables cutting boards, several regular sewing machines, a serger, and all manner of other tools, reference books etc.. It's amazing. and the "teacher" is a brilliant artist/seamstress and she's Japanese. Speaks English well enough to manage teaching me, all the other "students" are Japanese too, it makes for an interesting group. She makes an occasional trip back home to Japan and returns with the most amazing fabrics, tools and notions not available here.
I'm slow as molasses in constructing a garment, just finishing up night gowns for my granddaughters, i used two different methods for setting in sleeves, but just learned I have to rip out stitches from one of the sleeves where it joins the side seam of the gown. it's all puckery there. Oh well. Almost there!
But I have all these other fabrics with all these other projects in mind. And every time I walk into a fabric store, I go ape over something so beautiful. A lot of the times, I just want to gaze at them like pieces of art. Maybe I should take to stretching a few on a frame and hang them on my wall! LOL! Thankfully, a fabric store isn't around the corner from me!
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