Material Girl

So the furniture was built, the final set of drawers having eventually arrived, the shelves were up and re-packed, obviously in genre and alphabetical order…please!!!

I even managed to build a small bedside table from some off cuts of white conti, the left-over curtain rail and edging….very Blue Peter.

For the final push all that was needed was to re-cover the headboard and make a new bed–runner……definitely the home stretch….Christmas here we come!

Took a day off work to track down some material for the aforesaid headboard and runner and luck for once was on side and the exact colour was located early in the day…leaving plenty of time for a quick meal and a beer or two! It is incredibly thirsty work looking for material, if you haven’t done it you just don’t understand how dehydrating it can be…..this is my excuse and I’m sticking with it!!

Couple of days work and the headboard was covered and the runner completed, even threw in a couple of sequins for good measure.

Well obviously it didn’t go completely smoothly, whilst sewing in the fast lane the machine needle broke, it happens, actually quite often to me, it is probably a good thing there isn’t a sewing machine speed limit I would have lost my license for sure years ago!!!

Broken needle is normally no big deal but this time the broken needle slipped when I was removing it and fell into the machine so I had to take off the footplate, remove the bobbin case and ensure that the broken piece was not caught up in the machine. On the bright side I gave it a very good clean while I was in there, O’Seedy definitely approved of that!!!

Overall outcome room now completed except for a couple of drawer dividers to fashion from upvc or ply, haven’t made up my mind yet       and still a couple of months ‘til Christmas………..result.