Matilda is getting a new home and she is very excited about the prospect. Unfortunately I have been slow at finishing up the planning stages of the sewing room closet and have not yet ordered the components or hardware and so she must wait.
Matilda has had no real home of her own since her stand broke. This was not her fault, as she is based on me (built from a cast) and is rather unbalanced (like her mother). When the stand was mounted in the physical center of her base, this was not the center of her weight, but even when we calculated where her true center might lie, we found that a slight brushing up would be enough to send her to the floor. Alas her stand was broken in many places and she has been relegated to moving from table to table, surface to surface, with no real place to call her own.
This is about to change, as I have created a cubby in the new closet shelving system just for her. It will be a place where she can stay and also a place where she is readily available whenever I wish to work with her. She can easily be brought out of the closet and onto the sewing table, and since her new spot is just about 5 feet from my sewing machine and easily accessible, she will always be at the ready. She is thrilled, if a little impatient.
Here is a rough plan for the ends of the closet. IYou can’t really see the details as I am still working from the original pencil sketch, but you can see that Matilda has her place. I am still working out the hardware details, but it is looking like it is going to work:
