Pat on the back! Gold star! Proceed to next level!
Here's the old table with a few boxes stacked on top. I've offered the tile cutter set, and indeed the actual table around our church. If there are no takers then off they go to charity. This was the state of play last week.
This morning, before the day heated up, BB cleared the boxes to... to... to somewhere else and dismantled the table. Then we, or rather, he hoovered the carpet AND the wall (!) and cleared the old desk in our bedroom.
I have a feeling this desk dates back to the beginning of yhe last century, as we know that the country house it came from burned down in around 1905, give or take a few years, and this was rescued from the fire.
It has made everything so much easier, and well worth investigating if you can't make a metal one work. I wondered if the eye of the needle would pierce the leather and stab my finger, but that hasn't happened in all the years I've been using it.
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Music
After reasonable temperatures this morning, this afternoon suddenly became so, so, hot. It's only now, at about 7.30pm, that I'm beginning to get any energy back!
Here's the first movement of the Serenade for Strings Dvorak as a suitably gentle way of easing into the evening. Or morning. Or afternoon or whatever time it is when you read this! I think this is op 22... there are so many serenades for strings I'm losing track.
I guess that is what my project is as well=spare sleeping room and study combination. The table is gorgeous, and it will be really something cleaned and polished.
ReplyDeleteI've loved that table since my parents bought it when I was young. It's hopelessly inconvenient to work at, but I still used to do my school home sitting at it (hence ink stain on surface!)
DeleteThat's a very pretty little table.
ReplyDeleteIt's sweet, isn't it.
DeleteThat table is a lovely piece. Good work on getting things sorted in the room.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I go upstairs I walk into the room for a little more congratulating ourselves!
DeleteYes, lovely little table. A leather thimble! Must look for one to try out.
ReplyDeleteThe table was too large and inconvenient in the bedroom, and looks smaller and a bit lost in this corner. I'm glad we managed the rearrangement as we otherwise couldn't have kept it and the one that's coming at the weekend.
DeleteThe leather thimble works for me, but see 'frugally challenged' below...
I can't cope with metal or leather thimbles but a silicone one suits me fine. (It has a metal disc on the tip.)
ReplyDeleteThat would have been my next trial, but I use the side of the thimble to push the needle. I guess I could have changed how I sew!
DeleteWorking in confined spaces is hard.
ReplyDeleteHow very satisfying to complete your project, and the table is so sweet.
I can't use thimbles - my mother never sewed without one.
We spent our time in that room shuffling round on the spot!
DeleteAt my convent prep school we were all issued with plastic thimbles and told to use them, but not HOW to use them as I remember. I learned from a youtube on making clothes by hand at an American historical re-enactment village.
I always used an old metal thimble with a brass rim that belonged to my grandmother it was slightly too big but I liked using it. Since my eyesight has deteriorated for close work I don't use a thimble now, I only see on buttons! Congratulations on your tidying and sorting, it is so lovely to walk into a space where there was chaos and now there is calm! Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteI wish I had my grandmother's workbox... I was fascinated by her darning mushroom, a lovely piece of wood constructed in a chequerboard pattern.
DeleteThe calm is only on that side of the room...!