My sewing room is small, it is slightly less than 10 feet wide by almost 16 feet long. A narrow room. My quilting frame takes up 12 feet in length and about 3 1/2 feet wide, that does not leave a lot of room for anything else. The last couple of days I have been making a new quilt top, not a complicated top but I am machine piecing it which means I needed to get my sewing table back out and the sewing machine set up – also I needed to extend the leaf on my cutting table for more work space. Once I get those set up the space I have is like this:
My cutting table also turns into an ironing board with the small version that I made from a piece of wood cut 12 x 18 inches and padded with quilting batting and covered in muslin. The table also has a cutting mat on it for trimming up blocks as I go along. As you can see the quilting frame with the quilt top that is in the process of being quilted turns into a design wall (table?) 
you have to make use of the space you have after all.
Now I did not mention that I share this room with my husband! He has a tiny area on the opposite end of the room:
Even though I take up the majority of the room he has the closet for all of his research books. He doesn’t keep his side neat like I do much to my dismay 
but seeing as he only takes up about 5 feet x 5 feet of space it’s ok with me.
Our daughters shared this room for about 12 years and they didn’t kill each other
I went to the quilt guild party today and want to share a picture of Joanne’s kitchen floor – it is special. Her son re-did the tile on her floor and surprised her with this design in the center of the floor – wasn’t that nice of him, it appears he sure knows his mama and what she likes to do with her spare time, a quilting block design right on her floor!
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