This weekend has been busy but satisfying. I managed to sell my chest of drawers on eBay which meant I could buy the IKEA STENSTORP kitchen island I wanted to use as a cutting table for the sewing room. While the eBay buyer couldn’t come until Sunday we decided to go to IKEA on Saturday to pickup the bench. Good job as my poor husband succumbed to the lurgy on Sunday and had to spend the day in bed.
On the way to IKEA I stopped in at a lovely button shop in Newtown called All Buttons Great and Small. I didn’t have my camera with me otherwise I would have taken some photographs. It is just wonderful. A whole Aladdin’s cave of buttons in all colours shapes and sizes. You can peek through their shop window on the website. I didn’t buy any buttons this time but I spied some lovely shawl pins and as I have more shawls than anyone I know and I always have problems with them falling off my shoulder I treated myself to these three pins.
Of course after the visit to IKEA came the heavy work. Lifting all the bits into the house and the dreaded flat-pack assembly! For a spatially challenged person like me these picture instructions can be a bit of minefield but we prevailed and here is how my sewing room looks now.
The blackboard decal I bought as a roll. Boy am I glad I didn’t use the whole 2m as I originally planned. It was so hard to get it on without air-bubbles and even once it was flat when you come back in a couple of hours air-bubbles have appeared from nowhere!
On the top shelf I have stored all my rulers, cutters and templates and on the bottom one all my solids, marbles, painter’s canvas and shot cottons.
While it wasn’t cheap I’m very pleased with my purchase. It will also be good when it comes time to baste quilts.
So, how was your weekend?
That looks like very useful piece of furniture… Good use of waste space under a cutting table (mine is occupied by a bin full of scraps and strips left over from cutting marathons and a dog who regards it as his cave). But I do have to have a folding table in ther as it needs to go away when the sofa bed is required.
Really like the handy table you got yourself! And the shawl pins are very nice, something I need to remember for my daughter who loves scarves! My weekends are short as of late since I work every saturday, but my sunday was lovely spend with the horses, shopping with my daughter and finally put a needle to fabric again also!
LOVELY!!! I can’t wait to see it. 🙂
What a great table. I have an Ikea about 15 minutes away, so I’ll have to go and look with a new eye.
What total size is this table? which one did you buy, I went online and max size I saw is 49 5/8″ x 21″ hardly large enough to be a fully operational cutting board! for $399.00
I also emailed last week asking if and where was your video on “basting for hand quilting” as well as “hand quilting without a frame”
no answers.
Hi Christine
The table I bought was this one: http://www.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/00116996/
it is 126cm by 79cm by 90cm and cost $599.
I’m sorry about your other question but I never received them. Here is one of the posts you were looking for:
https://sewjournal.com//?s=hand+quilting+without+a+hoop&search=Go
I don’t have a video on basting for hand quilting but I do have a post on basting on a small table which is here:
https://sewjournal.com/2010/09/18/basting-a-quilt-on-a-small-table/
Unfortunately when I transferred my blog back to WordPress it appears to have lost all the photos. I’ll see if I can find them and fix it up and then I’ll let you know.
Thanks for the comment.
Regards
Munaiba