Another day of Minis and Dreaming of Knitting.

I played with the bedroom things yesterday, finishing the painting of the chest.  It looks decent though I wish I had made some gesso to give it a good undercoat. I gave it five coats of paint and it still has a few spots that seem to show the old wood colour. 

As you can see I also cut the base of a bed.  I am not sure if this is what I will keep.  There are so many interesting ways to make a bed and some really sweet easy to do mattress patterns out there.  If this one stays, it will be easy to attach the proposed metal headboard and footboard.  Just put them through the foam!  I have seen some really interesting cardstock headboards and footboards, though.  It might be fun to try that.  I do have cardstock on hand.  I am giving myself a few days to think about exactly what I will make.  Even then, I can make one now and then my householder may get tired of it and decide to get a new one.  You never know.

Putzing about through my boxes as I tided for the day, I remembered that my good lady was going to have her sewing machine in her bedroom.   In those days a sewing machine often sat in the parlor as it did at my grandmother's house, but my parlor is already full.  I have several bookcases and the radio.  Plus the gentleman of the house appears to be a bit musical.  There is a violin on the table and a horn of some sort in the corners.  That is enough to crowd the room.  Sewing will be done in the bedroom and our poor lady will have to do the requisite (to sewing) ironing down in the kitchen.  Poor thing.  All those stairs.  Oh well.

I have given our lady a place to relax after all the climbing.  I have a pair of those old striped chairs.  They are ugly and very square and are really more suited to a child's play than for use here, but I plan to redo the chair to make it much more comfy looking.  The way it is made, makes getting it apart easy so it shouldn't be difficult.  

I have also not decided the flooring yet. I am pretty sure it will be a lighter more bleached colour of wood, but first i have to find that page again with the free printable.  

The other thing I found putzing around yesterday, was a couple pieces of old existing furniture to change into that radio I was looking for and a side table to set it on.  

I had a second old small coffee table and I cut it in half and put a stabilizing bead on the back leg so it had three points on the floor.  (Need to stain the bead yet)  The clock will sit on this little side table.  Then I took a little plastic tabletop sized pendulum clock and took the top section off for the speaker part of the radio, and cut off the base to use for the base of the radio.  I glued the top and bottom together and added a few beads, covered the clock face and it looks like a fairly reasonable radio.  

You can see it tucked safely into a corner, where it is easy to reach to listen to and where errant feet will never knock it over. 

I have to think seriously about bedding now.  I am not quite sure what I will do.  I saw a beautiful coverlet embroidered on a fine count fabric all done in blue and white and you know that I am a fool for blue and white. But I have a feeling that I will end up using some of my small patterned and plain fabric stash to make a teeny tiny quilt and then to make a granny square afghan using embroidery thread as yarn.  I also have thought about making an all white quilt.  They look so fine when the are stitched with a nice design on them.  The afghan would really pop in the room.  Those things would suit my lady a bit better.  She likes fine things but she also loves handwork.  Her house will eventually be filled with it, I think.   

So, I have many things to do yet, which is nice.  My hand is only slowly healing. I mean to take care not to injure it again, so the wait will be what it will be.  Even the small things for the wee house.  In the mean time, I can plan, and maybe, just maybe in the coming week, I can embroider and do a bit of mini sewing. And if it takes another week after that for my hands to be ready to knit, I will see about doing some sewing for myself again.  It's time to make.