We’re running out of space
The cellar is getting full. We have two normal rooms as well the boiler-room, a wash-room and the oil-tank-room in our cellar, it’s getting crowded down there. Ruth has always used the smaller room as sewing room, and the larger room was used as an occasional office (the Windows PC is banished there) and as a drying room for the washing so long as we don’t have visitors.
But several months ago, Ruth started taking courses at the quilt university, which means that it also used as a photo-studio for taking pictures of her work and as an area to lay out and dye cloth. This week, we got a delivery of three large, heavy boxes containing a 3 meter quilting frame and sewing-machine especially for quilting. Today we assembled them (only half-length for the quilting frame), and the cellar got a little more crowded:
The three boxes
Now how are you supposed to do that?
Finished!
March 26th, 2006 at 10:03:37
and most people in Britain dont have a cellar unless its in an old Victorian house & then its dank & smelling of drains…
A (good) cellar is one reason why German houses cost so much. Our cellar looks to be in a worse state than
yours with deep-freeze, saddle, bales of hay & straw for the guinea-pigs and various accessories for aircraft.
Its rumoured that there are some bottles of red wine hidden there…...
BTW that constructions looks worse than with IKEA. The famous phrase that strikes fear into the heart
of all buyers: “some assembly required”..........
March 26th, 2006 at 11:03:44
We couldn’t manage without a cellar, having lived here for nearly 26 years.
Actually the construction wasn’t too bad – there was a good set of instructions with photographs and even the correct sized spanners and allen-keys were included (just like IKEA!). We haven’t been able to test it yet, as the instructions don’t include the final details about how to use the various velcro strips and a length a hessian cloth that we still haven’t “assembled”. There is a VHS video included which is supposed to contain lots more information, but we don’t have a VHS-machine to play it on, having moved to DVD and hard-disks for video recording and having foolishly thrown out our VHS video recorder and tapes as being obsolete (we also don’t have any LPs or cassettes, or any means of playing them, for the same reason!).
So on Monday I am planning to go into town and get the video-tape transferred to DVD, so we can see how to actually use the beast.