progress

My sewing work station is slowly, but surely coming together. I still have to find a storage solution for all my fabric, batting, and other bigger sewing tools. But here's what's been done thus far:

The first project was to turn our $20 beat-up kitchen table from craigslist into a work table. Steve, with the help of a friend, cut the table in half so that it's more narrow and looks more like a desk than a kitchen table. Then he sanded the top and put polyurethane on it to make it look better. Lastly, I painted the legs and underneath the top an off-white. I wish I had a before picture of the table - you wouldn't even know it's the same table anymore!

I found the chair at a local antique store for $10. I still need to make a cushion for it, as the seat isn't that comfortable after sitting in it a while.

My next find was the pinkish jewelry box on etsy that I'll use to store all my needles, thimbles, and other small sewing tools.

The mason jar shelf that I found on the internet is also coming together. My dad had some molding left over, which I painted the same off-white color from the table. After gathering some old mason jars and miniature milk bottles at various antique stores, we screwed them on the molding using hose clamps. Now all that's left is to find one more mason jar for the other one I'm making and then hang them both up on the wall! I'll use these to store scissors, pens/pencils, ribbon, measuring tap, rulers, etc.