DIY on Stauffer
Off of the top of my head yesterday I wished out loud for handier fabric storage. I said an auto creeper would be just the ticket to slide under the tables with totes sitting on it . . . in and out as needed. Sliding totes under my two church tables that I have sitting side by side can feel like a hard stretch and pull. I went about my sewing.
Later in the day, Dennis came down for a bottle of cold water and I noticed beads of sweat on his brow. “Are you doing ok?” Come to find out he had been out to Fleet, been in the potting shed, and had had the garden hose running. That fellow can slip out of his patio porch faster than snuggles can catch a squirrel. Now the rest of the story dribbled out.
He had a 26″ x 52″ half inch of clean plywood that we had used when we painted the basement stairwell. As our scaffolding days are over it was going to be repurposed. Today, he was ready for the rest of the story. Now . . . what did I have to cover it? Many years ago when Dennis was running up and down the highways with his 18 wheeler, we had had room darkening shades as he had slept at odd hours. When the rollers gave out, I saved the heavy vinyl. Perfect cover for the plywood using our stapler. As I couldn’t get the stapler to work, not enough oomph, I went in the house.
Soon I got a phone call . . . from the patio porch. I was needed. I couldn’t believe what I saw. I had a fabric creeper complete with rope pulls from either side. Talk about a DIY. The rollers were heavy duty as they had come off of the bottom of my Huskie sewing machine table when we had realized the rollers made the table too high. When and if that table will be moved out of the studio, not for a very long time, the fabric creeper will no longer need to be in service and the rollers can go back onto the table.
Leave it to the two of us, the fabric creeper got down into the studio. We both just sat and marveled. For the price of a drill bit and some nuts for the rollers to be made secure a $10.00 bill made a wish come true. Gotta love the ole cowboy for listening and then doing. Tomorrow will be arranging of stashes and supplies. Come on, what quilter wouldn’t want their stashes available with a mere tug of a rope.
My next item for the day is fixing some chicken titties for Dennis for supper. It’s a mild day outside and I don’t mind cranking up the kitchen stove top for a hearty meal that is one of Dennis’ favorite.
It isn’t what you have in your life . . . but who.