V's Version

Oh what a lucky gal I am! While working at the new quilt (I am doing small studies to try out cloth hues and colors so I don't stress), I was staring at my ironing board and all the wasted space that was taken up by those scissor support things that it hold up. It's impossible to store anything underneath it. "Useless", I thought. Plus there was fabric everywhere and rolls of this and that on my work table. Not that I mind chaos - but I have my limits.




"Hey, Dani - do you think, at some point, you might be willing to make me a shelf to put this ironing board on so that I could put things under it?"

"Sure." (She likes to build things.) After a few questions, some measurements, some clarification, some practical application of finding the lowest common denominator of two fractions (Pk is currently learning LCD) - she was off to the hardware store. I didn't mean for it to happen immediately but - voila! Like magic - she pulled together a beautiful, solid, practical custom seven foot working surface and cabinet with many shelves!!! It not only makes the best use of the space under the ironing board but also the heretofore-dead back corner space behind the washing machine. It's VERY impressive.

Do not think for one single minute that I take for granted how lucky I am. Mmmmmmm.

And speaking of lucky - I have been looking all over for the right colors for the commission that I am working on. They are NOT (apparently) colors normally used in quilts. Not one store carries the colors.