No More Than We Need

...or how I made my lovely thread holder! As a few people had asked for how I made this, I thought I’d write a blog post about it so it’s more easily saved and shared, if you want it. A note to start off, it’s a pretty simple design, not much skill required (thankfully!) but you’ll need a few basic tools and materials - I’ll list them here so you can gather things together before we start. You’ll need: a saw and a hacksaw (truth be told I used the hacksaw for everything which is probably why it took a lot of effort to cut the bigger bits of wood, but I just don’t get on with saws!) a drill with 4mm and 6mm wood drill bits electrical or masking tape sandpaper ruler/tape measure and pencil a screwdriver a small hammer 12 countersunk screws about 25mm long 4 pan head or dome head screws about 30mm long 2.4m of approx 20x45mm wood 1.21m of approx 10x20mm wood 2.4m of 6mm diameter dowel 60 panel pins approx 30mm long wood glue 4 wall plugs for the screws to suit the...

Well at last I feel as if I’m making progress with my sewing room!  As a side note I’m beginning to feel like it should have a sexier name now it’s here but no idea what - the sew haven, sewtopia, sew snug...hmm, nothing sounds quite right (suggestions on a postcard please). The room was cleared, cleaned and I’d managed to persuade my hubby to help me relocate the furniture from upstairs (basically thrown down the stairs, argh, but at least down!) and I’d set everything up according to my carefully considered paper plan. It was at that point that I stupidly decided to do a Google search on best sewing room layouts **cue lost hours on Pinterest looking at layouts in spaces much larger than mine, feeling like I’d missed a trick somehow, then lots of moving said furniture around about 10 times until I realise that, actually, my first carefully planned out layout was in fact the best** Procrastination at it’s best!  So now the furniture was in place, now it was time...

Hello again!  So this post is a little later than I wanted it to be, but to be honest – some of those things I talked about being scared of happening last time, well they happened.   I won’t dwell on it, but let’s just say it’s all been a bit rubbish **massive understatement** and life has changed again. **Deep breath**  But back to the project, I’m sure you’re gagging to know what’s been going on.  After deciding on my New Year resolution to get organised, declutter and set up my sewing room, excitingly, at the end of last year I had my personal shopping session with the lovely David, our #liveLAGOM leader, and it was pretty good!  I wanted to buy things to help get, and keep, my sewing room organised but as is my usual style, not really thought about it until I rocked up for the session.  David steered me through the sweet shop that is Ikea (ooh, I could get that, and what about that, hold on – I’ve just seen this, oh and that would be perfect, ...

A Scottish man once gave me a wonderfully descriptive word, a 'gersinter'.  We’ve all got one (go on admit it) – it’s the place where all those things you don’t really know what to do with ‘gersinter’ (say it with a Scottish accent and you might get it…no?...goes inta, into? Ha ha!).   It might be a drawer in your kitchen, a cupboard in the spare room or even the spare room itself!   You’re probably asking what this has got to do with anything – good question, I’ll try and explain. A bit earlier this year, I saw an email from Ikea inviting people to apply for the #liveLAGOM project.   I read the blurb, sounded interesting and had a philosophy I liked, so I thought “why not?”, bashed out an application, then lost all hope of ever hearing about it again.   Then out of the blue, I got an email saying I’d been successful.   To quote Wallace & Gromit, cracking! I went along to the induction, dreading that they’d ask me to talk a...