Relocation

For the last six months or so, my sewing space has been tucked into one side of our guest bedroom.  It’s a bit cramped, and sometimes it’s a problem sharing a wall with my kids’ bedroom when I want to sew while they nap.  But it works reasonably well.

Until it actually turned into summer.

We’ve had a cool, rainy “summer” here in New England. Cool enough that we made it most of the way through July without seriously considering getting our two air conditioners down from the attic.  Sunday, though, was hot and muggy and it was time to make it happen.  Parked the kids in front of Backyardigans while we set them up in our room and in theirs.  And then, before bedtime, I did I trial run: while both air conditioners were running, I turned on my iron.  And pop went the circuit breaker.

In our… ahem… charming old house, the entire second floor of the house is on a single breaker. It’s a miracle we can actually run both a/c units at the same time, and clearly that represents about the upper limit of what the system can handle.

The prospect of no sewing until we’re done with the air conditioners is quite unacceptable, so while M read the kids their bedtime story, I started hauling my sewing necessities down to the dining room.

While I like having a larger table, I don’t really like having my sewing space set up in the dining room as a long-term solution. It’s a huge pain on the off chance we actually want to use the room for, you know, eating.  Plus, it leaves things a little too accessible to my curious (nearly)-two-year-olds. And we all know how quickly sewing spaces can turn into a huge mess.

But, it’ll just have to do for now, and I’ll have to do my best to keep it tidy.  Good thing I’m leaving Wednesday morning! There’s only so much damage I can do in the next 48 hours. Though I did make my first attempt at a block for the Doll Quilt Swap… we’ll see what it turns into!