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Broken bed, and leather craft
Aug. 21st, 2016 10:40 amWe bought our bed some ten years ago and for the last three-four years the central support beam, which supports the slatted bed base, has become bent and twisted. This in turn led to the slats to occasionally fall down, with the mattresses and us following them. Rickard has been very good at temporarily fixinghtis, but when it happened again on Friday night we decided that we should go to Ikea on Saturday to fix this. While there we also decided to get new fabric covers for our sofa an armchairs. Since the only covers you could ge tin the same colour and fabric for Eketorp sofa and Tullsta chairs was red, we now have a red sofa and armchaisr instead of rather dirty dark blue. Some of them were also badly scratched by Mysko, I hope he is old enough to stay away from them now.
The afternoon and evening was spent together with Anna, while Rickard put the bed together. First we made Lebanese food together, then she worked on her granny square blanket and I knitted on my new cardigan. Aftera while we crossed the landing and went to her place to see if she had the material for my christmas present to Rickard. I'm making him a quiver. The inspiration are arrow bags based on the finds from the Mary Rose, like this, and this.
We started with the leather spacer. This is really tough, thick leather. So, for the sake of the neighbours' and our own ears we soon gave up on the drive punch in the photo and used a revolving leather punch to create a group of holes. Anna, whose hands are tougher and healthier than mine did that. Then I carved them round with the help of the drive punch and a knife.
They were then pressed into a rounder shape while slightly wet with the drive punch.
The bag will be made from waxed and pressed linen cloth - leftovers from Anna's pavillion. I need to harden the leather piece a little too. Since this is intended to be a christmas present I am really not in a hurry.
The afternoon and evening was spent together with Anna, while Rickard put the bed together. First we made Lebanese food together, then she worked on her granny square blanket and I knitted on my new cardigan. Aftera while we crossed the landing and went to her place to see if she had the material for my christmas present to Rickard. I'm making him a quiver. The inspiration are arrow bags based on the finds from the Mary Rose, like this, and this.
We started with the leather spacer. This is really tough, thick leather. So, for the sake of the neighbours' and our own ears we soon gave up on the drive punch in the photo and used a revolving leather punch to create a group of holes. Anna, whose hands are tougher and healthier than mine did that. Then I carved them round with the help of the drive punch and a knife.
They were then pressed into a rounder shape while slightly wet with the drive punch.
The bag will be made from waxed and pressed linen cloth - leftovers from Anna's pavillion. I need to harden the leather piece a little too. Since this is intended to be a christmas present I am really not in a hurry.
