The Shop

Yesterday Jeff and I went to Cooperstown to re-arrange my display. We were just suppose to put up a curtain rod so I can hang sweaters and other things on hangers but nothing is every that simple. Our building started life as a garage or stable and has been modified over the years. About 40 years ago, it was finished inside...if you call barn board on the walls as 'finished'. The shelf unit I use was built for someone else and another knitter used it in between us. Anyway, we took down a shelf and he put up the curtain rod fixtures...a couple of times. Seems nothing is exactly square or level and even tho he measured from the front edge of the shelf to the center the rod did not end up in the center. One end and the center holder were lined up but the other end was off by 1". Move that holder and the 1st end moved 1" in the other direction. Took several tries to get everything straight...sort of. Then the the pegs that held the shelves up had to be moved and either the holes broke or they were not lined up right, either. Finally got them up and if you don't breath hard on them, the shelves stay put. Jeff had a few things to say about women who don't know carpentry but think they do. The unit lasted all these years without a man's input so I think we'll be OK. The shop reopens a week from today and I've got to finish what's on my needles and get buttons sewed on and ends worked in by then.