The Tale of the Rotating Tables

They don't "rotate" round and round

I just decided to switch them round!

It all started because I started sewing again

Lucy's Halloween costume.

I sewed for years

Making a lot of my clothes (all my maternity clothes)

Clothes and toys and costumes and doll clothes for Daughter Sarah

Jackets for Husband Jim

But then life got busy

We moved here to Linderhof

And I did for a time set up my sewing "room" in the basement

But Linderhof's basement is one grade up from a cellar

And it was dank and dark and not a "fun" place to sew.

So, basically, I gave it up

For with a teenager life seemed to get busier.

Oh, I made the occasional curtain

Or sewed a new cushion for the sofa

Or hemmed or mended something

But not really "sewing"

Until the fateful day that I volunteered to make Lucy's Halloween costume!

I had no desk or cabinet to sew from

My choices were the dining room table,

the breakfast table or somewhere upstairs.

I chose upstairs

Set up a card table in our room

And there it remained for a week

So I could sew as needed.

(Which is why a sewing room is so nice -- you close the door!)

And then Jim needed something mended

And so I cleared off my dressing table

And mended it.

Then Jim needed something else mended.

And so I cleared off my dressing table

And mended it.

And then a friend asked me to hem a tablecloth

And so instead of clearing off my dressing table

To sew the seam,

I thought a table upstairs in the guest room

That would serve one purpose mostly

But then when I wanted to sew, I could clear

And even leave my things set up

And close the door!

I pondered tables I had

And where I would put it . . . 

I decided on this lovely English game table

It was long enough

And not too wide

And one can sit at a chair and there is room for your feet.

Upstairs it went!

It's main purpose is the bedside table for the guest room

There is a chair nearby which will be handy

And a plug below which will be even handier!

It replaced . . .

An antique round table

And honestly, the slimmer footprint of the game table is a better fit, I think

Than the fat roundness of the round table

And, of course, we couldn't leave the bottom of the stairs "naked"

So up from the basement came this "game table"

Round, not too big and much slimmer on the sides

Since it folds in half 

So it's really a "demi-lune"

Which means that the hall closet door can opener wider

Which, actually is a good thing!

I like the cleaner lines of this table

It's almost Biedermeir in design.

A antique mall purchase a few years ago 

Bought, not for the bottom of the stairs

But the top

Which was replaced a couple of years ago

by my Grandmother's chest

Storage, you know

So much more precious than a pretty table.

And so this little gem was stored away.

Waiting, for the day, when once again, it would grace a hall at Linderhof!

It was a great solution to a problem

One not costing any money

Just a little labor

(carrying tables up stairs!)

Who knows, with a great sewing space,

I may take up clothes making once again . . . 

For there are more Halloweens

(and costumes for Lucy)

and Christmas and dolls

(and doll clothes to be made)

And the best thing is . . . 

The door can be closed!

It's Monday and I'm joining Susan at Between Naps On the Porch for Met Monday