Last week I spent cleaning the other side of the basement for the office area and screen printing bags for The Printed Bolt. Here is the other side of the basement before I cleaned it. This is where I will put my desk and office type stuff, for whatever reason this side of the basement feels much colder than the studio side. The second picture shows the wonderful built-in shelving on this side of the basement, which is going to work nice for fabric. My dear friend Nancy Bavor from Quilt Worth is coming to town on Thursday to give a presentation on the Jean Ray Laury exhibition she curated at the IQSCM, so my goal is to have my office and studio in decent shape to show her.
In addition to cleaning and screen printing, I saw this tutorial on pintrest to turn a tablecloth into a floorcloth and I thought it looked like a great idea, especially since I already had the polyurethane. Unfortunately, I am really disappointed in this project. The first problem was that the vintage tablecloth had a stain in the center that was only visible when wet, but with the polyurethane it has remained visible. The second problem is that it takes a ton of polyurethane to put on the first coat. I had over 3/4 of a 1 qt. can and thought that I would have enough to do the whole thing but I didn’t even get one layer on before I ran out, this was disappointing because I had selected to do this because I already had the polyurethane. Anyways, after seeing the price of poly at Ace ~$40 dollars for a gallon I almost scrapped the whole project but on our once every three month trip to Wal-Mart the price was $25 bucks for a gallon so I went ahead and am continuing. Looking back, I would have been happier if I had quilted the tablecloth and use it as a quilted rug.
Floorcloth after round one of poly.
Papago Studio 