Hand-Quilted Is Best!

I just finished this quilt for my guest room. Doesn't it look inviting? My guest room shares space with my sewing room. Since my sewing room was there before the bed was, I already had the room completed with some of my favorite colors. Once I decided I'd make a matching quilt for the bed, I rushed to find the left-over fabrics (thankfully I saved them) from the already-made valance, covered chairs, and draw curtain for the computer area. By adding just a few other scraps, I was able to create an appealing bed cover and even had enough left over to make a couple pillows!


I hand- quilted each of the squares inside the 9-patch and although I'm not the straightest hand-stitcher in the world, it works!

The nice thing about hand-quilting is even if the stitches aren't as little or as straight as you'd like, the more the quilt is washed, the better it will look! 



I'm a sucker for a frilly bedroom so I tried to keep the furniture and accessories white and just add color with the soft goods.

I built a shelf for my few nick knacks and attached a valance to keep the window treatment simple. I'm not a big fan of Chotchkies, but the few I do have, I want out of the way to create less clutter.

I upholstered two chairs; the sewing machine chair, and the computer chair. And since I recently fractured my tailbone from a fall, I upholstered over a "donut pillow" for my computer chair. If you look closely (below) you can see the little indentation in the back area where there is no foam. :) It has actually worked very well considering I spend a good deal of time at my computer.

In the last photo at the bottom, you'll see the curtain for closing off the computer area when we have a sleepover guest. I made a tab-top curtain and slid it over a tension rod. This computer area used to be a dressing room when I was doing fashion design, but since my stroke I'm not doing as much of that for others (just myself) so I moved the computer into that area and made room for the guest bed.

The Valance is attached to a shelf I built

See, quite a lot can be done in a small space!

The perfect place to sit my broken tail!

My ex-dressing room turned computer nook