First of all, thank you so much Reza for making this opportunity real for us. My name is Diego and I just started to take the lessons. I've been longing to enroll to tailoring classes for quite some time but the tuitions always discouraged me.
I started the lessons just a week ago and right now I just finished watching the video on how to make tailor hams, and I'm taking my own pace on it. At the same time, I was all week working on my studio set up which is almost finished, I just have to bring over more of my notions and fabrics.
I've seen the work of the other students in here and I'm really impressed, keep up the good work guys! Here are pictures of my studio as of today.
How's the new studio working out? Have you had to move anything around? Anything you wish you had or wish you had done differently? More importantly, have you made anything in there yet? 😁
Diego,
Hello, I too, started ISOT this month, January. Today is my first time to the community board so it's nice to read your story of bring new also.
Your Studio is lovely. It looks warm and inviting and yet also a place for serious work as well.
I agree, Reza is a blessing.
Very cool space you created
Diego!
What a lovely studio you have set up. Great atmosphere and organised.
It looks like a space you'd like to spend most of your time in.
Thank you for sharing photos. I personally love to know in what spaces you and others work and am always energised to see it.
Reza
International School of Tailoring
Hi Diego,
That's a great looking space. I can tell you really put in a lot of work to make it a place you would want to spend time in. I have a small space myself and keep everything mobile. That said, I have a couple of ideas about that and some other things.
I like the cutting table and that you put it on a rug, so you aren't standing on a hard floor for hours at a time. That's smart. An addition I'd make would be to put furniture sliders (those smooth plastic hockey puck looking things) under it so that you can easily push the table around the rug. This would allow you to move it to the center of the rug when you need to stand on any side of the table and still be standing on the rug. It would also allow you to push the table out of the way so you could temporarily make more room for your ironing board. One thing I've done is move the ironing boards along one edge of my cutting table so I can lay a bolt of fabric at my feet, iron it a couple of feet at a time, and push the ironed fabric across the table. I have furniture sliders on everything. In fact, I put them on my sewing machine table so that I can sit down in my chair and pull the table toward me, instead of scooting under it.
I didn't notice a surge protector under your sewing table. That might be a good idea.
I like the string of lights. They are very festive and create a great atmosphere but, if those are incandescent bulbs, you might want to make sure they aren't right against anything flammable. The lights along the curtain wall might be dangerous however, a few simple brackets would hold the string several inches away from the fabric.
I also like the pegboard. I think you'll get a lot of use out of that. Of course, I have an idea for that as well. When I'm sewing, I always end up with items I need at arms reach, at least at that moment, and I need a place to set them. The problem is that I can only accumulate so much stuff on my sewing table before the fabric I'm sewing starts knocking things off onto the floor. I know there are shelves or shelf brackets made for pegboards. If you added one on the wall next to each machine, you'd have a place to set things without having to put them on the table.
Well, that's all I've got. Your studio looks GREAT just the way it is, I was just throwing out some ideas. 😁👍