Where I Sew – Amy Ellis of Amy’s Creative Side
Amy Ellis is an author, fabric and quilt designer, quilter, blogger, wife and mom to four. Her books include Modern Basics, Modern Basics II, and Modern Neutrals, and has contributed to a number of other books. She lives with her family in a small town in the Utah mountains, where the hot summers and cold winters are a great excuse to stay inside and sew! Amy writes a regular column in Quilty magazine about quilting on your home sewing machine, and posts regularly on her Blog, Amy’s Creative Side.
Amy’s Links: Website and Shop, Blog
Where I Sew is a month long celebration of the spaces we create in. Leave a comment and be entered to win one of 50 $20 Pink Chalk Fabrics Gift Certificates. Add your sewing room to the tour!
80 Comments
Beautiful mess!
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Really enjoy seeing real quilting/ sewing studios that aren’t totally clean organized and do not look like an interior decorator created it. You can tell she actually does create in her studio…
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Yay at last a messy space! Well done Amy for showing us like it is for many of us most of the time!
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I agree! It is refreshing to see a studio that looks more like mine — “active.” I can see a lot goes on in that room!
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Thank you for sharing your space. I love that it is lived in. I am a take space where I can get it kinda girl.
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Thanks for sharing! It sure makes me feel better about my creative mess 🙂
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Boy howdy, looks like home only better! Thanks for sharing!
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Thank you so much for sharing your space, I also like to stack my fabric in precarious mountains!!!
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Whew, I’m glad I’m not the only one who has an erupting fabric volcano in her sewing room!!!
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Nice to see a space looking so well lived in. Means lots gets done there.
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I love a studio that looks like lots is getting done.
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I share the lovely lived in look. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for sharing your space– finally one I can relate to, not just dream about!
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Yaaay! This one looks like mine when I have projects!
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So cute!
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I love how this space has the lived in look! Thank you for being real. It’s awesome!
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Your room looks well used and comfortable!
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Love your space Amy! So real! Thanks for sharing with us all (and making me feel better about my organized chaos LOL).
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
I can tell you love to quilt. Thanks for sharing your space with us.
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Wow! A lot going on here! Fun!
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That’s what I like to see – a well-used sewing room! Looks like mine – small and cramped but it works! Thanks for sharingl
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In the nicest way possible – I like that your sewing room is not perfectly neat & tidy; it makes me feel like I am not the only one with a tight and messy work area.
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Thanks for sharing your sewing space – I love you designs!
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Now that looks like MY sewing space!
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Love her work!
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A real sewing space! As much as I love a clean, organized space, this is what mine looks like at the moment! Amy is so talented!
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Looks a lot like mine – except for the quilting frame:) Love the falling over piles of fabric, I have those, too!!
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Looks like a fun place to be creative in. 🙂
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
I would love to read and learn from your articles about quilting on your home sewing machine. I am afraid to try.
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Everything within reach is always nice.
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I love seeing rooms with creative “messes”. I’ve seen so many beautiful sewing rooms pics that are completely organized and tidy that I began to fear I was the only one who didn’t keep everything completely in its place when I’m in the midst of a project.
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
I love the realistic studio. It is nice to see an organized studio, but we all know it is rarely like that for long.
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Love the quilt in progress. And I’m so jealous of the long arm! 🙂
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Beautiful! It looks just like my sewing space. Thanks!
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I’m thinking I would feel right at home in your sewing space!
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Now this one looks more like my sewing room! I was starting to wonder if I was the only one with a messy sewing room!
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Wow – this looks like a WIP is underway, much how my room usually looks.
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
How fun to see your REAL working/sewing space!!! Is very much like mine… & I would definitely feel at home there too! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Love the real look of your sewing space. My bookshelf looks similar 🙂
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
I would love to have my own space where I can leave things out and just sit and sew whenever I want to without having to pick everything up all the time. My space is the kitchen table. Thank you for sharing!
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
This is my fav studio so far because it looks like she actually uses it!!! I think most of us can relate to this craft room! I love it!!!
View CommentJuly 30, 2014
Thank you for sharing your space with us. Love the longarm!
View CommentJuly 31, 2014
You are one busy, crafty lady! Love a messy sewing room, keeps it real! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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Love the activity in your room!
View CommentJuly 31, 2014
now that is the space that is used
View CommentJuly 31, 2014
Love to see someone show their sewing room in a working state.
View CommentJuly 31, 2014
Lovin your space. It looks real and not fakey clean for a picture. Mine is probably more “creatively arranged” (ok, I didn’t want to use the word messy) than yours but you still have more sewing space than me, unless I cleaned up that is. Let’s call our sewing spaces, “creatively clean”. kthurn@bektel.com
View CommentJuly 31, 2014
How refreshing to see a messy space on here, that looks like mine! 😉
View CommentJuly 31, 2014
Now Amy’s looks like a real sewing room would look when it is being worked in! Thanks for the unedited version Amy!
View CommentJuly 31, 2014
I love seeing that people can make a longarm work in a room that isn’t super spacious! Maybe that means I have an excuse to work towards having one!
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