Showing posts with label dragon fly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dragon fly. Show all posts

7 August 2012

Welcome to my Craft Room

I have no excuses now for not getting on with my quilting.  I have taken over a corner of one of the guest bedrooms.  Not that any guests will have anywhere to put anything away, as I've taken over the wardrobe and the chest of drawers.  What do you think?  Peter shelved out the wardrobe for my yarn and associated oddments in the bottom.  Its so great to see my yarn at a glance and to not have it falling out every time I opened the chest.  The chest is now home - in the top cupboard to all my wrapping paper, ribbons and bows etc.  Then the next two drawers are fabrics and wadding. 

The bookcase is home to all my knitting magazines, pattern and reference books.  The folders hold all the free patterns that I have obtained from Ravelry and the web. I also have Peters' granny's old Singer hand sewing machine which still works beautifully and I enjoy using it.  The table was re-topped and painted as in a previous post.  The button jars (old coffee jars), the cotton thread jars (old pickle jars).  I took some old picture frames which I painted then made into pin boards, just using some wadding and fabric, easy.  I think they look good and cost practically nothing.  In fact, the only things bought was the wood for the table top, shelves for the wardrobe and the corner shelves.  I did all the painting and pretty stuff and Peter did all the woodworking and drilling.  What a team!







Now for something completely different - thought you might like to see this magnificent dragon fly who visited with us at the weekend


And finally the bath mat which I knitted for Rachel's bathroom.  Think I should have gone round a bit more before doing the graduated cast off.  Still by the time I had spent three hours sewing on the toweling back I was past caring.