A small plumbing disaster stops play

Whilst I was away having fun at International Quilt Festival in Houston there was a small plumbing disaster at home in the sewing room. The steel pipe between the plastic pipe and the outside tap corroded and leaked. The offending pipe has been replaced with a piece of brass pipe so shouldn't leak for the rest of our life in this house.

The leak was spotted early and dearly beloved promptly fixed it. However, there are consequences: (1) beloved discovered just how much stuff was squirrelled away behind the sewing cabinet (and had to move it); (2) some decorating repairs are needed before the sewing room can be returned to normal; (3) once my suitcase was unpacked I felt duty bound to tidy the sewing stuff.

The eager to sew brain was not easily distracted by tidying up and it took me all weekend to achieve a semblance of tidy. In my defence it was hard to unpack the suitcase because the home for some things was not in its normal place.

The sewing room

The pink bats still need to dry out a bit more before they can be put back and the gib (plaster board) replaced. Even though this bedroom was the first to be renovated back in 2008 the wall paper is still available, not so sure about the paint colour. Beloved has never really liked the muddy gold colour so we might be repainting the entire room not just the new gib.

A strangely half empty sewing room

Before tidying

After tidying

The master bedroom

Luckily the master bedroom is still empty so most of the contents of the sewing room were dumped in there.

The ladder went back to the garage once my suitcase was returned to its sleeping quarters

Before tidying

After tidying. Everything on the right will be hidden in the wardrobe

Note the three red bags of sewing patterns gathered from around the house. There are now too many to fit into the existing boxes so I need to either rethink my storage solution or (horror) get rid of some.

The only damage was to the copier paper box which all my interfacings etc are stored in
plus my little ironing board which now has a tide mark on the cover
and I already have the replacement box just waiting for me to transfer the interfacings

Despite the renovations to the master bedroom being completed at the beginning of this year the carpet is still not laid. Apparently it is almost impossible to get a carpet layer when you are not buying the carpet. Admittedly we have had the carpet ten-years, from when we started the renovations, and the carpet was replaced in the other bedrooms. It just took a wee while (seven years) for the earthquake interrupted renovations to be completed. On a positive note the curtains are ready and the interior decorator will hang them on Friday. Can't wait.

The dining room

The sewing cabinet proved problematic to get through the door of the master bedroom so it was wheeled down the hallway and into the dining room.  There are many things to be grateful for in having a single story house!

It will take some time to complete the decorating and until it is finished sewing is less likely to occur. I can sew in the dining room but as we actually use it to eat the sewing will need to be neatly contained and put away before dinner time.  I am taking a couple of sewing projects to Wellington and that may be all the clothes sewing that happens in the next month or so.  Although the usual Christmas production line could happen as they are small items and better suited to dining room sewing. Alternatively I could finish the hand projects I started in my Houston classes.