A Look Back

Long-long-ago ....  The Mezzanine Room was a Plain-Jane room with no decorations.  It was a meeting room that anyone who lived in the apartments could use...but no none did...it sat empty.*

One day I picked up the key to have friends over for a sew day. 
I spent a day dragging supplies from my apartment over to the Mezzanine room....
getting all my 10,000 steps that day.

September, 2016 Sew Day

We had so much fun...people came and went as they felt the need.  We sewed, we ate, we laughed.  Then when it was all over I cleaned up the room and took the key back to the office.

We repeated this sew-day-process several times until one day the manager said "You should keep the key.  No one uses that room but you."  And the Tuesday night group, the Needlers, was born.

The Studio has changed a bit over the years...

2017

2018

 

 

 

 

Until, finally, it is all ours.

We have supplies, decorations, books, fabric and quilting stuff in every corner and in every cupboard.

People passing by are amazed when they stick their head in the door and look around.  We even had one new tenant to the building, Robert, stop in one night to talk about Nancy Zieman.  Turns out his late wife was a quilter....we set his mind to remembering and gave him a smile.

December, 2020

Because of COVID and social distancing, we are not officially meeting at this time except those of us who live on property and happen to cross paths from time-to-time.  But, we are looking forward to the day when we've all had our shots and are certain we're not rabid and we can get a group together again.   I miss my sew sisters.

Miss Kate is snapping the picture

Miss Kate

Studio Sweet Studio

*The property has 8 buildings and each building has a Mezzanine Room.