Spider Art: 2008

It's not that I didn't make progress on the PROJECTS the last few weeks. I just lost the camera. It is now found & charging. A camera should not become an obstacle so my assignment is to do a post without it. After all I'm just learning.

A large block of time was spent on stripping my king size headboard. I have a good before picture with the depressing brown gunk that covered it and I will get an after of the amazingly beautiful wood underneath.

It was too cold for the stripper, which didn't stop me, but it at 50 degrees it conveniently slowed down the action of the stripper. I went through a whole bag of steel wool scaping gunk. I bought 2 cans of the stripper & the bag of steel wool each for 99 cents at the liquidation sale of a liquidator going out of business sale. I'm not kidding. The down side is that they have been in my basement for several years.

Perfectionism was a nag and the cold & wet weather was an obstacle. I put the headboard in b's empty bedroom to put the sealer on. Big mistake. It was too cold and the fumes were still too strong even with a fan, a heater, and the windows open. So it looks splotchy. I'm waiting until it is at least 65 degrees outside to fix it.

It's going to be so beautiful when it's done.

The red wool quilt took a great leap forward. When Lenore was here March 8th we went to the bins and I found 5 womens red blazers. They were picked apart, washed & dried. Some shrank a lot but not enough to make the wool too thick. Here's a question. Why don't clothing designers use preshrunk wool? It would save a fortune on dry cleaning and hand washed wool comes out as soft as a baby blanket. The only problem I had with the wool was the iron on interfacing. I'm guessing that at 99 cents a pound each blazer was $1 to $1.50. So now the beads are being put away and the red wool will take over the dining room table. That's all for now.