Four Purple Rail Fences

When I began this project we lived in England. My Janome, fabric and quilting supplies fit on a shelf or two in the laundry room. Three or four days a week I’d pull everything out, spread it on the dining room table and get creative. A year later, as we waited for our tenants to move out of our American home (and for our furniture to show up) my work space was a small table in a suite at the Residence Inn. Then for for almost six years I had a sewing room all to myself. I stitched with a Bernina in a custom-fitted cabinet, and my stash quickly grew to fill an entire closet. At the moment I’m using my mother’s Eversewn Sparrow 25. When it’s not on the dining room table, it’s sharing a shelf in the laundry room with my fabric and quilting supplies. It’s a temporary arrangement, but it all feels so familiar.