Delight du Jour
Apr. 7th, 2012 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisOne of the many issues I was trying to solve with the living room makes over was to get a table. A work/eat/entertain table. A table that I could sit at and do stuff.
The table I got is the perfect size and easily extends to bigger and again to even bigger. I already love it for eating.
But one thing I really wanted was a place to sew. I used to sew big time. In fact, I once had a business making clothes for people. I made my own clothes for years and years. When Sheri redid this condo in 2005, my sewing table bit the dust. No room for it. And my sewing machine went into a cabinet.
When I wanted to sew, I set up a TV table in the bedroom. There was no place to press stuff, no place to put stuff, the cats wound up playing with everything and I wound up frustrated. So I dragged it out for emergencies only.
I invented a new thing in my head the other day - it's a table runner/place mat. Something I could use for my dinner but then move to the center of the table for show. I found a great fabric basket to keep in the center for napkins and the tv remote. So I wanted my runner to go with the table runner/place mat.
I found the perfect stuff in the fabric store (which also had a pre-Easter deal where you picked an egg out of the basket and got a surprise... mine was 20% off my purchases!!).
I came home and set up the sewing machine and iron with room to put stuff and plugs to plug it all into without a BFD. I'm so delighted. I trimmed out the pieces and steamed the wrinkles all out. I'm letting them rest now and then I'll sew them up with the trim and then put everything away. Easy, peasy.
It just tickles my soul to have my sewing back. I don't even have anything else to make and I'm still delighted.
I think I'm going to watch Scandal while the fabric dries.
The table I got is the perfect size and easily extends to bigger and again to even bigger. I already love it for eating.
But one thing I really wanted was a place to sew. I used to sew big time. In fact, I once had a business making clothes for people. I made my own clothes for years and years. When Sheri redid this condo in 2005, my sewing table bit the dust. No room for it. And my sewing machine went into a cabinet.
When I wanted to sew, I set up a TV table in the bedroom. There was no place to press stuff, no place to put stuff, the cats wound up playing with everything and I wound up frustrated. So I dragged it out for emergencies only.
I invented a new thing in my head the other day - it's a table runner/place mat. Something I could use for my dinner but then move to the center of the table for show. I found a great fabric basket to keep in the center for napkins and the tv remote. So I wanted my runner to go with the table runner/place mat.
I found the perfect stuff in the fabric store (which also had a pre-Easter deal where you picked an egg out of the basket and got a surprise... mine was 20% off my purchases!!).
I came home and set up the sewing machine and iron with room to put stuff and plugs to plug it all into without a BFD. I'm so delighted. I trimmed out the pieces and steamed the wrinkles all out. I'm letting them rest now and then I'll sew them up with the trim and then put everything away. Easy, peasy.
It just tickles my soul to have my sewing back. I don't even have anything else to make and I'm still delighted.
I think I'm going to watch Scandal while the fabric dries.
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Date: 2012-04-08 02:21 am (UTC)