A Tour of My Sewing Room // It's Cluttered 😅
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- A quick look at my sewing room / office / storage space while I am in between projects!
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The tropical brocade: www.moodfabric...
The bead/sequin organizers I like: www.michaels.c...
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First, a disclaimer: So many of you have kindly offered to send me things, including vintage items you may have inherited, and I am so honored you would think of me and of course I do adore vintage treasures, however, unfortunately I only have so much storage space currently! So there is a chance that if something just wont work for me, or doesn't fit me etc, that I may not be able to keep all of your lovely things. Please only send things if you are okay with the possibility that I may donate items I just cannot keep. If you would prefer I put things that I can't keep into the TCH Etsy shop to help raise funds for me and the channel, please specify this in a note or letter in your parcel. Thank you so much!
Bianca Esposito
PO Box 632177
Highlands Ranch, CO 80163
Thank you for watching!
If it helps I'm absolutely certain that a "Let's dress my Mom" series would do well even if she decided not to model them for the internet
Yup! Absolutely would watch! It would be really interesting to hear your thoughts about making something to suit the body and style preferences of someone else.
I get very in my head when hand making or repairing items for others. And it requires different considerations.
It would add more variety to the channel as well, wins all round!
Going through it from the beginning by making the block from measurements... great idea!
Agreed. You would inspire us to finish that unfinished project we all have started for our moms.
Absolutely. Would love a 'dress my mum' series!
A true artist's lair, surrounded by things you love and that inspire you ❤
love that usage, 'artist's lair'!
Never apologize for being who you are. I understand the need to be surrounded by “stuff” that comforts you, inspires you, has meaning for you. It tells the story of you. Loved the video tour. Hope you find that house soon.😊
Thank you Maureen!
Hell yes to the cluttered Victorian look! Also that velvet blouse is incredible 😍😍
Thank you Katerrinah!
I know you've had your hair cut for a while, but I just wanted to say I absolutely love it. It suits you very well.
Thank you Courtney!
Dust bunnies, fairy sprinkles, lace spinners (spiders) - doing our part in protecting the ecological environment.
Thank you for the tour. I'm glad you know what brings you joy to be amongst.
Uh, I love the term lace spinners! I'd never heard that before...
Thank you Kaytie!
"Cluttered maximalist" is also how I would describe myself. I'm going to have to remember that term alongside "horror vacui" (the Victorian distaste for empty space).
Your camera angles when filming your other videos are magic, because I had no idea how cramped your space is. You do a great job creating a totally different atmosphere.
Oh! And if anyone's interested, the wall snake would be easy to make with a toy snake, some wire, and paint.
Thank you Cheryl!
Any dust that collects is considered to be magic sprinkles. There’s no need to remove it 🪄 🖤
I'm on team maximal, I couldn't create in an empty space. Maybe it's just a neuro-spicy thing, but I need to be able to see things to remember they exist. For dust management, I particularly like the Ikea Billy bookcases with glass shelves and doors. I can still see everything, but the dust is excluded. Thanks for the tour, your space looks divine.
I love the sleeves you're wearing!
And I agree, it's so nice to have pictures on the walls and Fancy Objects on top of surfaces.
The brocades had me drooling! The mylar peacock absolutely sings to me! I recently got some major appliances (new-to-me), and my house was turned upside down and sideways, taking the old ones out and the new-to-me ones in. It involved tearing out my full pantry. Bianca, I have no flippin' clue where my sewing machine is!
I love the atmosphere that you are going for. A friend walked into my bedroom and said it looked like a tomb. I thanked him. He's a sweetie!
Gotta find that machine! ✨🧵
I could see a future for the tropical brocade as a swishy summer housecoat, like a swimsuit cover for those of us who don't go swimming but still enjoy the millionaire-widow-poolparty vibe.
“Oh, pool boy! Bring me a cocktail, will you . . .be a dear.”
Thanks for the tour, because I’m basically nosy and curious. I’m a maximalist as well and your sewing/creating room is very organized and clean compared to mine.
I’d love to meet your mom, since I’m probably of her generation, I have a daughter your age. I think you’re pretty fabulous and very interesting. It makes me wonder what you were like as a child and what your family culture is.
Thank you Cynthia!
Thank you for the tour of your creating space. 😻😻😻 Honestly, it is very well organized and perfect, even if it's crowded, just look at the creativity which flows from such an accomplished you. 😻😻😻
Thank you Dolores!
I’m on team clutter too. Your space is aspirational for me! I don’t have enough on my walls yet.
Ahhh yes!! I’ve been waiting for this 😁😁 I love love love cluttered studios and spaces and actually find that seeing other people’s creative spaces in use actually inspires me to create.
Watching your videos over the last few years, and just seeing your background set-up grow and grow has been SO mcuh fun, I have to say!
If it makes you happy, then go for it!
Thank you Katie!
I’m currently working out of the corner of my family basement. Sometimes I need to remind myself to get come fresh air and sunlight.
I dont dust very often and only remove the spiders webs after Halloween each year. I dont see the point in buying fake cobwebs when my house spiders make plenty during the year.
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My mom calls me the stranger at the end of the hall because I always pick the room at the end if I can no matter where I move and then rarely leave it. As a writer I have never had my hobby so aptly described lol. I actually put on noise canceling headphones as well, because I moved back in with my mom to help her with the newest place and we have fur babies, plus she works from home. I loved getting to see your space! My room is less a bedroom and more a workspace with a bed 😅. Crossing my fingers that your house search will provide you with a ginormous room for your crafty space. The sleeves on the piece your wearing are awesome. My sister would fight you for that wall snake 😂. So many pretty pretty fabrics. I loved the purple and black ones you showed off. Thank you for sharing ❤
I have a craft room with a bed in it as well, lol xD
Thank you Tiffany! A workroom with a bed was all of my spaces in apartments in university for sure 🧵✨
I love your crafting space!
My crafting space is maybe 1/2 that size and also doubles as my home office and guest room. The storage struggle is real.
At first I didn't realize that the floral pattern - that can be seen on the left upper arm - is not a lace fabric under the velvet, but your tattoo. Looks great under the sleeve slits! 🐱
Thank you!
"The dust to me is part.. of the look." - Bianca Esposito, 2023.
Love it, wonderful 😂. Loved seeing it all in such detail!
I haven't even finished the video yet but as someone who has never been to London but has a very fond childhood memory of Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Portobello Road is an amazing song and it does my heart good to know that the message of the song is still relevant apparently.
“Do I dust….. no” girl. Relatable lol 😂 and the black outfit ur wearing is stunning! I love a thumb moment and a split sleeve!
Thank you Heather!
Thank you for sharing! A crafty person need not apologize for anything. Great minds needs their tools at their fingertips! I’ve been a fabric and bead person for a long time. Can’t wait for when you use the antique purse frame. Trying to get the nerve to make one myself.
Have you ever watched the series “Penny Dreadful”? You’d love the plot and set decorating (especially the witch’s cottage interior -season 3)
I actually watched the first two seasons and for some reason lost steam and didn't finish it 😅
I watched this then immediately hung up more artwork in my sewing room. Love your aesthetic.
Thank you! More artwork is always a good idea ✨
The Closet Historian on TH-cam, Bianca's Atelier in real life. Your studio is as wonderfully eclectic as you are. On another note, it was an arrow in my heart to hear that the 80s is a vintage era for you ... I was in my 20s during the 80s and it seems only a few years ago!!!
I would love to have you put the dress for your mom on your video schedule.
Your fabric and notions organization is seriously life goals. I have 2 old metal boxes that used to hold disposable face masks for miners. That's what my grandma put buttons in so that's how they passed down to me.
I have a little marmalade jar shaped like an orange that my grandmother filled with little sea shells. 🌊
Grandma's button boxes and bins are always the best ❤
What is this “dusting”of which you speak?
I’m glad to see someone else thrives in “creative clutter” it’s funny how some people need lots of space and blank walls to give them “room to think” and others who love to keep all their treasures close and visible to let their creativity flow. It ANNOYS me beyond measure tho when people who need clear space try to enforce their views on those of us with a more “enclosed” mindset. Some of us NEED to have our things close….yes it looks “cluttered” and even chaotic to you…..but to the rest of us dragons, there is nothing more restful than curling up, safe on our hoard…..and fair warning, it’s not wise to annoy a dragon in her den for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!!
Oh and I covet that purple brocade….it’s stunning!!
Would you be willing to show your process for buying a new serger? There's a lot machines that say they are "heavy duty" or "industrial" but are um.. garbage..
Oh I would just save up and get a Juki brand industrial serger (or try and find a used one), since those are what I have worked with before 😅 www.sewingmachinesplus.com/juki-mo-6814s.php
You have so much stuff, but you are constantly in motion using it and putting your energetic creativity out in the world to inspire. Good on you.
I absolutely love how you shown the real side of sewing room. I'm always skeptical when youtubers show pristine spaces, maybe they always clean, but it's hard to believe. There is always fluff when you sew, thread, and all that stuff.
Also those earrings! They are a statement and I adore them.
Thank you Noel! The earrings were a Portobello road find ✨
@@TheClosetHistorian They are awesome and look amazing with this blouse. Was the blouse your project? If yes, then I would definitely be interested in seeing how it was drafted.
@@Noel.Chmielowiec Thank you! The blouse was a project over on my patreon I'm afraid!
@@TheClosetHistorian Oh, I need to check out your patreon then!
I had to smile! My daughter just got her hair cut just like yours… Nope she doesn’t watch you, but I did point the hair cut out to her after the fact!
Wonderful tour, thank you! Even more appreciation now for what you create and share from within that space 😍
Thank you Jeanne!
I love the shirt that you’re wearing! I love your creative space. I’m the same way I need to have all of my stuff near me.
Thank you Rachel!
LOVE IT!!!! When I saw the baskets I was thinking she has more fabric that that... you did not disappoint!
Oh yeah the baskets are just the tip of the iceberg 😂
I am a third-generation non-duster and proud of it! 😃👍😆
Thank you so much for sharing your space with us. I have learned so much from you, thank you for everything. 😊🙏💝💕
Thank you!
Except for my very brief marriage I've always lived with my parents. At first it was because I needed them financially, but then it became because they needed me to take care of them physically. There's nothing wrong with living with your parents as long as everybody has freedom and privacy and respect. It might not be everyone's ideal living situation but it shouldn't be considered shameful, especially in today's economy. Also, apropos of nothing, people shouldn't be shamed for liking prunes, they are yummy and not just for constipated old people. Those purple and black brocades tho! Talk about yummy.
I love your room. I am 62 and would have this kind of setup You have a wonderful soul and it shines in your element.
Thank you Vicki!
A way to dust, if necessary is canned air. Start at the top and work down. If you really want it cleared, have a vacuum hose pulling the dust away.
...except the last time I went to buy that, they wanted some obscene price like twenty bucks a can for it... something about an addiditve they now use to prevent people from getting high on it ...
Funny enough canned air is super good for dusting vintage hats ✨
ooo! i see your 100k youtube plaque!!👏👏👏
Thank you for taking the time to show us your work space, you do have a strong attachment to London, love your top/dress, i know its strange to ask but what is the area like where you live in and what is Joanne’s like or Michaels, here in England we have a shop called “Hobby Craft” but it sounds nothing like what you have. Here in England we don’t have basement spaces unless its an old house and mostly no useable attic space, property is expensive and space costs. Thanks again j
The area where I live is verrrry suburban, think the movie Pleasantville or Stepford wives but with less 1950's charm 😬
Would your Dad like a shirt in the undetermined fabric? Something like in the 50s men’s catalogs.
I'm afraid since it's a stiff polyester brocade a shirt would be might uncomfortable sadly 😅 I do like an Aloha shirt though!
Very astute to compare a sewing room to an apothecary. Master Raymond’s apothecary would , I believe, be perfect as a a sewing room as there are many drawers nooks and crannies to store items. My daughter, 17, collets owls and now will try and hunt down the one you have. Thanks for the tour.🇺🇸
PS Low and behold eBay has many tv lamp owls. Woohoo!
I love seeing a beautiful yet realistic tour of a sewing/craft room. Your new hair looks so good on you ❤
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing! I find your work space very inspiring. Please stop apologizing.
I can't wait to see what your next work room ends up looking like!
Man I so need to re discover my sewing room
What masterpiece are you wearing?! Have I missed it? It is gorgeous; those sleeves are monumental!
Thankyou Claudia! I'm afraid this top was from a Patreon video 😅❤️
Love your decor and apothecary vibe! And your collection of sequins are sooo pretty 😍 It's comforting to see that your patterning and sewing space are so close together. I also work in a tiny room of my apartment where I'm walking around my ironing board between my cutting table and sewing machine to sew. Here's to bigger and better sewing spaces in the future!
Thank you! We could all use more space I expect!!
I think I'd prefer a light & bright studio space but I do love the dark & moody look for the living spaces. Target is a good place to find the bigger glass domes. They almost always have them.
I can't wait to see your perfect for you sewing room whenever you find your future home. Your inspiration pictures have me drooling 😂😂😍
Thank you for the cool tour! I feel super-attached to the blue patterning table of doom. Is that weird? LOL. If you don't take it with you when you move into your new space one day, I shall go into a period of mourning for it. : ) : )
I was hooked to the chanel when I first heard her say "blue Plätterinnen Tablet of Doom" some years ago. I knew I found gold 😇
Patterning table of doom! I hate auto correction
I think I'll still take it with me, it just may end up in the laundry room, aka, the laundry and tie dye room 😂
I love the no-dusting life too. Drives my mother insane lol. Love your earrings, btw!
Thank you! Earrings were a Portobello road find in London 🤩
I used to write with the lights low, in places where I could be and not be distracted. It is not weird, IMO.
I TELL YOU I JUST LOVE YOUR VIBE! SO FABULOUSLY RETRO. HUNNY, EDITH HEAD WOULD LOVE YOU!
Considering how you like iridescent fabric and accents, you should look into a stain called "Unicorn Spit", it's an iridescent gel stain for use on bare or painted wood. Might make an interesting upgrade to the Blue Patterning Table of Doom some day.
You look absolutely stunning in that outfit! Something about that black velvet and the oven sleeves is really doing the most for you!
Thank you Emma! I made this shirt in both black and mauve, even though the sleeve construction is quite fiddly 😅
Please make a video about them (you need a green one of those don't you??)🩷🩷🩷
Please move to the Chicago area, we want you!!!
No we want her in Pasadena California, so i can visit!!😂
Ha! Outside Chicago I could afford, Pasadena not so much sadly! Go visit Huntington Gardens for me 🤩
✨Best✨Makep✨Ever✨
"BLUE PATTERING TABLE OF DOOM!" LOVE IT!!! LOL!!!
We need a tutorial for your blouse! Love it!!!!!
Yes!!
Thank you! I'm afraid it was a patreon project, so a video does exist, it's just over on patreon 😅 Sorry about that!
Admittedly, I squeaked when I saw your TH-cam plaque. Well deserved B.
Thank you Claudia!
What a wonderful tour! It was really fun to see you in your creative lair! I like to see how other artists organize their spaces...it's quite helpful. I also have the same Brother Serger and the blue flowered fabric curtains that you do! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you for sharing. I found it very interesting to see your workspace. I love that I have some of the same items from Michaels Halloween that is everyday decor in my house too. Are you a bookbinder? I saw the Lineco PVA glue by your sink and wondered.
Thank you! I use the PVA glue for stiffening silk fabrics for flower making! and gluing the flowers together as well ✨
I'm excited for you to have a house so you can have a haunted library/writing room, a haunted craft room, a haunted bedroom, a haunted kitchen, etc. Dust and all.
All haunted all the time ✨
Another Butterfly! (Clutterbug), lol. I love the visual maximum aesthetic that you can walk through every day and see something different. My entire home (Skoolie) is a curiosity cabinet of exciting and strange things that drives some people crazy but makes me happy.
Whoever is doing your ink is very good.
She's super talented! switchxbladetattoos on instagram ✨
So glad you are able to make a place that makes you happy.
8:28 - Everyone's different. I'm more of a tanned leather and off-white wood sort of person who likes her writing and coloring things hidden but accessible. But I love your maximalist style so much too! It feels very creatively charged, like a treasure trove of inspiration just waiting to be picked up and worked with.
Thank you so much for thenlovely tour. I doubt this opinion will matter but I feel like that gorgeous iridescent lace would be great as a jacket or wrap because then it could be worn over different colors to show it off in different ways and allow it to be more versitile through the seasons for greater chances to wear. It would also be really incredible to see some scap from whatever project you do possibly used to decorate a hat? It looks like it could make a really intresing bow like bit or maybe even used in place of some veiling? This is where my mind went when seeing it.
Veiling would definitely be fun as it is suuuper sheer!
SO NICE to finally see someone who just lives in so much clutter like I do. So much pressure on this plattform to live the minimalist dream or at least make the impression to do so in videos.
I never dream in minimal 🤣✨
HUNNY, YOU ARE GIVING A FURIOUS KAY FRANCIS VIBE WITH YOUR LOOK! WORKIT DIVA! LOVE IT!!!!!!
I AM TRYING TO COMPARE YOUR INTERIOR DESIGN FLAVA TO A CLASSIC MOVIE ACTRESS. GRETA GARBO? GLORIA SWANSON?
THAT BLUE BUTTERFLY COLLECTION REMINDS ME OF A SCENE FROM THE MOVIE, "THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY" WHERE GEORGE SANDERS CAPTURES A BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY AND PINS IT TO A PIECE OF CARDSTOCK.
Kay Francis....you are soo right!!💖
That top together with those earrings - perfection! Have you gotten more tattoos? Looks beautiful!!
I love clutter, dark and moody, and maximalism. Clutter is not overstimulating to me, only stimulating. Empty spaces on the other hand legitimately gives me anxiety. In spite of being a Swede, modern, white, minimalist interiors is abhorrent to me 😀
Your beautiful collection of objects and materials is right up my alley, and I'm looking forward to seeing how you will arrange it all when you can have a bigger space in your own color scheme.
Thank you Maria! I have indeed gotten a new tattoo on my wrist/hand 😅 My birthday present to myself!
@@TheClosetHistorian Well earned! Treating yourself - best thing! 🙂
Thanks sooo very much for sharing your space! I get it, being surrounded by what you love!❤️❤️❤️
Love Christine’s videos too! Thanks for sharing your space. 😊❤
OMG, I'm in love with your blouse! So elegant and beautiful! The beautiful fabric on 19:00 is something I could see as a 40s-50s beach set.
Thank you!
Love it!
I, too, am a dark and moody maximalist
Thanks for sharing
Your space is such a mood!😍🖤🖤Love how personal it is while still being very functional!!!
I do envy your storage cabinets!! 😁
I too am a MAXA-MA-LISM-A-GO-GO-GAL (maybe You are more MAXA-MA-LISM-A-GHOUL-GAL )! Freaking love Your Treasures!!! .thanks for sharing !!
I love your cluttered sewing room!! I have a similarly cluttered room with my microscopes, small fish tanks, books, specimens, fossils, paintings, etc. I feel wrapped in a warm blanket when I'm in my wonder room!😊
Never clicked so fast on a video before! 😍 your sewing space is so inspiring!
Thank you!
"I.... don't... dust..." Yeah, me either, vacuuming here is also a losing battle. I'm really bad for out of sight, out of mind, I tend to work in chaos with all the things I could possibly need within reach. Most of it's on the sofa behind me, I sit on the floor with my back up against the sofa unless I'm sewing on a machine... but my beads are in the basement, my ironing and fabric stash are upstairs, so I sorta need to be mindful of what I want to do when I dig out the supplies... my drafting tools and cardboard sewing cutting board are on a glass tabletop perched on top of the rabbit's crate, turns out to be the perfect height... though it's all covered in his hay right now...I really like the idea of fabric cupboards though, my stash is in two steamer trunks, one of which lives on top of the other so ... planning.required....
Oooohhhh, that black and purple brocade....yum!
Oops, I may have pressed the wrong button (thumb down) Bianca, I am sorry, purely accidental. Apologies. I love your room. 😘
... Probably nothing I would, she's for myself! I don't know why, but I thought that was funny.😊
This emoji about sums it up
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(Edit: I love those hours-long Cuberpunk bladerunner ambiance videos!!)
Oh, same, re maximalism; I dislike bare walls and first thing I do is pin stuff up with about an inch margin.... Lovely lovely snakes and things! Lovely stash! Very looking forward to whatever your new space turns out to be - so fun!
Honestly, if you hadn't mentioned the dust, I wouldn't have even thought of it. That's a very Roman apothecary sign snake. I need to get the Alex chest of drawers, you've convinced me. Don't mind me being silly, but you make me think of a fabulous dragon, ensconced in your hoard cave, rather than "living in your parents basement". I'm so jealous! Thank you for being you.
I love your studio. It is interesting and fun. Thank you for sharing❤
Thank you!
I love your sewing room! I too am a maximalist!!! And unashamed of it! This is what creative people do!!
Genuine question: have you considered covering the blue patterning table of Doom with peel and stick wallpaper or similar to make it more Aesthetique(tm)? I know with fiberboard etc there are always concerns about coverings peeling away, and any lumps/bumps are no good for tidy pattern drafting, so I can see how it would still be sub-optimal.
My kids just built me a mother-in-law apt. upstairs from my house and I have a sewing "room" on 1 side of my bedroom too. Not as large as yours I'm sure. They now live downstairs and I am on the second floor. In hosp. I lost 17 lbs so have been the happy sewer so I have clothes that fit. I also like the 40s and 50s clothes and have been making clothes from my fabric stash since nobody wants it when I'm gone. Love your channel and even after sewing for 60 years or so I still am learning new things.
Hello, quite new to your channel and watching your content like a kid with a bag of Candy.
Thank you for the lovely tour! You are an inspiration and I adore all the details you are collecting.
Watching this now and planning a trip to London, May I ask for your recommendation of stores for fabric and historic and cool collective items (not specifically fashion) that you liked there? I would love to check out the stores you like :)
In any case, thank you for your charming channel ♡
I moved back into my parents basement last year and while I am still a baby seamster and thus don't have as many supplies, my sewing studio also doubles as my bedroom and livingroom so I can definitely empathize with the outgrowing your room sentiment. I'm being gifted a serger and I have No Idea where I'm going to put it. I'm glad that you've really made the limited space your own!! The decor is absolutely beautiful
Oh oh oh...the purple brocade with the roses is sooooo beautiful. I immediately saw you in a Chinese cheongsam (Qipao)
Your curtains match my bed spread! IKEA for the win.
I was so bummed I missed out on the duvet that I bought the fabric to make curtains 😂✨