Since we had time off over the holidays we got to spend time in our shops. Pat in the wood shop and Lisa in the sewing shop. Here are a few of the projects Patrick completed over the course of the week.
A cabinet to hold his nail gun and nails along with a rail to hold a few of his clamps. Previously these nails and gun had been in a bucket and the nails were getting all broken up. This gets them up and safe now. He is slowly getting to "a place for everything and everything in its place". Yeah!!!
This cabinet holds all his gun cleaning chemicals and reloading supplies. He wanted a safe place so the kids could not get hurt. This has a lock and so he also put the tractor key in it to keep it safe and out of view. Both of these cabinets were built entirely of scraps from the garage cabinet that was recently constructed. So this helped clean up the leftovers from that project and organize gun stuff; an added benefit.
This was a fun project that Patrick has been working on, off and on for a few months. It is a powder horn made out of a bison horn. It came in raw shape; all dull, grey and rough. He has scraped it smooth and polished it out. He made the top and bottom plugs from scrap walnut that came from Uncle Tim's Home Depot and are attached with some brass nails. He then had to figure out how to display it. He played around with some metal as a stand but was unhappy with it so he went to wood scraps. He ended up using more walnut to make this display stand. He is very happy with the result and I think it looks pretty on display near the front door.
And here is a project for his honey. I requested a thread and bobbin holder/organizer. I saw this on Pinterest and so together we went to the shop and recreated it to fit my space. It fills that wall nicely and everything is now more organized. I previously had some generic thread holders but my color collection had outgrown the rack. Now I have some room to grow. Thanks dear.
And here is what I have been working on in my shop for the past bit. The first is a project I picked up at a sewing/quilting show I attended last January with three girl friends. Yeah, we were a little busy last year so I couldn't get to it till this winter. It was a lot of fun and turned out great.
This green jacket I made because I found this fabric and fell in love with it. I found a jacket pattern when I was at the coast in September. I started working on it and was half way thru when I realized it was not going to fit. Big time bummer. It had a few techniques which were new to me so all was not lost as I learned a few things in making this jacket. In the end I think it will fit my mom so it is going to the beach with me when I go for a visit in a few weeks. I feel confident that it will fit her as she is smaller thru the shoulders than I am.
An finally, in keeping with our reuse and recycle theme, I made a plastic grocery bag holder out of an old pair of pants that were worn out. This freed up my garden basket which always seemed to be filled with walmart/grocery bags when we were heading out to the farmer's market. This takes care of that problem quite nicely I think. All I had to do was hem up a casing in the top so I could thread an old shoe string through it to draw it up. As this is the leg of the pants, it was already cuffed at the bottom so I just threaded through some elastic and called it done. It hangs in my pantry nicely. Anyone need one? I have another leg to the old pants.
And so I don't sit idle....... I already started another project and have two in the conception stage. But you will just have to wait and see that in the future. I am off to a good start in the new year.
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