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hello internet welcome to raw clarence guess what my sewing table has arrived we actually arrived yesterday and it's um it's not the cleanest poshest table that i've seen in my life but i paid uh quite it was quite a low price well 50 quid and i thought that 50 quid was sort of well spent considering it was actually delivered here as well so i didn't have to worry about anything about you know getting things here and hiring fans and what have you um it's got metal legs which do fold up so eventually when i don't need it anymore it's going to be easy to fold up and store or you know give to somebody else or whatever so that was really good but the best thing about it is the size and ratio of it so it's i i guess it's about eight foot or
something um i mean eight foot by maybe two and a half something like that um that's that's my best guess but it's kind of perfect for having you know going along a wall and i can iron and press on it and i can sew on it and it does the job that's required so i've been looking actually at uh i googled sewing room ideas and everything in these images you know like pinterest and what have you everything was really twee and uh pastel blues and pastel pinks and whites i thought that's really interesting that looks a horrible space to be creative in absolutely horrible i mean yeah okay if you've got to sew a button on but to be really creative but then i figured well i'm probably not the average seamstress i'm much more of a textile
artist i guess and because i work with recycled fabrics i sort of get in amongst things there's a lot of cutting and chopping and unpicking um there's a lot of laundering and you know collections collections of um rock star images or pin-up images i used a lot of pin-up images for for the quilts that i just made my daughter and so you know it's a different style that i was looking for so then i looked up textile studio ideas and it was slightly more interesting but actually it occurred to me that the best sewing room is what's best for you isn't it it's not really what's best for anyone else at all and i'm on a budget i don't want to spend loads of money on a sewing a studio it's much more of a studio i mean i've got a chaise long i've got lovely
armchairs i've got a grand piano so it's more of a salon and so that's what i'm sort of working with today i'm i'm thinking about how to make a design salon so you know at some point i could have visitors and we could talk about you know the kimono that i'm going to make for example or they could come round and they could try on some jackets that i've made because i'm really keen to to go into jackets kimonos and um you know kind of things with expansive coverage because that's the way that you get these one this wonderful narrative in the bigger you know the space i have to create a narrative the better it is for me um so yeah i've got my little grand piano well it's not little actually it's just even a baby ground is big um and i i thought well the furnishings look quite nice in there the table doesn't look particularly you know posh
or um uh you know like some baroque gold effort which is where where i tend to go for but it's very very functional and it's nice and sturdy and that's what was important actually and what i might do later on is cover it and maybe curtain the front because already underneath it i've got absolutely masses of fabrics because one of the things when you recycle you know when that's your trade my new industry is all about recycling you need to stash this these piles somewhere you need all the red stuff or the green stuff or all the pictures or all the beads or you know whatever it is it's all got to be accessible but and it doesn't look so twee and pretty it does look like you want to get in amongst it and it looks very interesting anyway i'm really chuffed that that's here and i'm going...
hello internet welcome to raw clarence guess what my sewing table has arrived we actually arrived yesterday and it's um it's not the cleanest poshest table that i've seen in my life but i paid uh quite it was quite a low price well 50 quid and i thought that 50 quid was sort of well spent considering it was actually delivered here as well so i didn't have to worry about anything about you know getting things here and hiring fans and what have you um it's got metal legs which do fold up so eventually when i don't need it anymore it's going to be easy to fold up and store or you know give to somebody else or whatever so that was really good but the best thing about it is the size and ratio of it so it's i i guess it's about eight foot or
something um i mean eight foot by maybe two and a half something like that um that's that's my best guess but it's kind of perfect for having you know going along a wall and i can iron and press on it and i can sew on it and it does the job that's required so i've been looking actually at uh i googled sewing room ideas and everything in these images you know like pinterest and what have you everything was really twee and uh pastel blues and pastel pinks and whites i thought that's really interesting that looks a horrible space to be creative in absolutely horrible i mean yeah okay if you've got to sew a button on but to be really creative but then i figured well i'm probably not the average seamstress i'm much more of a textile
artist i guess and because i work with recycled fabrics i sort of get in amongst things there's a lot of cutting and chopping and unpicking um there's a lot of laundering and you know collections collections of um rock star images or pin-up images i used a lot of pin-up images for for the quilts that i just made my daughter and so you know it's a different style that i was looking for so then i looked up textile studio ideas and it was slightly more interesting but actually it occurred to me that the best sewing room is what's best for you isn't it it's not really what's best for anyone else at all and i'm on a budget i don't want to spend loads of money on a sewing a studio it's much more of a studio i mean i've got a chaise long i've got lovely
armchairs i've got a grand piano so it's more of a salon and so that's what i'm sort of working with today i'm i'm thinking about how to make a design salon so you know at some point i could have visitors and we could talk about you know the kimono that i'm going to make for example or they could come round and they could try on some jackets that i've made because i'm really keen to to go into jackets kimonos and um you know kind of things with expansive coverage because that's the way that you get these one this wonderful narrative in the bigger you know the space i have to create a narrative the better it is for me um so yeah i've got my little grand piano well it's not little actually it's just even a baby ground is big um and i i thought well the furnishings look quite nice in there the table doesn't look particularly you know posh
or um uh you know like some baroque gold effort which is where where i tend to go for but it's very very functional and it's nice and sturdy and that's what was important actually and what i might do later on is cover it and maybe curtain the front because already underneath it i've got absolutely masses of fabrics because one of the things when you recycle you know when that's your trade my new industry is all about recycling you need to stash this these piles somewhere you need all the red stuff or the green stuff or all the pictures or all the beads or you know whatever it is it's all got to be accessible but and it doesn't look so twee and pretty it does look like you want to get in amongst it and it looks very interesting anyway i'm really chuffed that that's here and i'm going...