Spent an hour last night stitching the cover onto the wheel. I think I should have made it a tighter fit around the circumference, as I am getting a little bit of loose material around the spokes (or what ever they are). But I don’t think it’s a deal breaker yet.
I happened to be up the Church tower yesterday, setting up for the teddy bear zip line. I took a few pictures I though might be worth sharing. If you look really closely at the hill, Castle Hill that is, you can just about make out the Jubilee Beacon pile of fire material (Bottom right photo).
The Land Rover steering wheel is finally getting a cover. I stripped the leather from the garage sofa the other day, washed it using a weak bleach mixture to get rid of the mold. Last night I set about cutting and stitching some bits… I now need to stitch it onto the wheel. It fits fairly tight around the circumference of the wheel. I have yet to find out if this is tight enough. I suspect it is not right enough, this based on what I’ve seen on YouTube. But since I’ll have to cut new leather, I’m not going to worry until I find out why it should be almost impossible to get onto the wheel…
I went for a drive the other day and came back along this lane. These two videoa
I picked up a real leather sofa (for free!) back towards the tail end of last year, I was imagining it would be a nice sitting and contemplation spot for the garage, but it went moldy. So I didn’t sit on it much, and then I decided I wanted to re-cover the Land Rover steering where. As such the sofa is being broken up for it’s raw materials. I’ll aim to keep the bulk of it, all of the leather and wood, though probably not the cushion fillings and foam. I used a dilute bleach mixture to removed the mold and have left it all to dry. I plan on covering the steering wheel first off. Then probably making a touch holder for my maglite. I may set about covering the top bit of dash too.
I was given a cactus growing kit for Christmas, which stated that they needed 18°C to grow. So hence only now getting to it. First it was a case of adding water to the soil, they expended into something more recognisable as compost or peat. The seeds were mostly microscopic, and quite hard to plant “one seeds depth deep”. The instructions stated that cacti are slow growing so be patient.
I have set about beginning to gradually build Abigail a dolls house. I’m taking an iterative approach to it, I set about just creating a couple of floors and two walls, no windows or doors, to see how she likes it. I felt that she’d just want to play with it, regardless of whether I think it’s finished or not. So I did some building, then let her have it, and then next evening took it away and did some more building.
Got the green house back home today and also picked up two loads of paving slabs from within the village. We carried the green house home, out down the road through Cattistock and were luck enough not to meet a car. The Land Rover seemed well down on the springs. As you might be able to make out of the tape measure, it was about 3.5″ of difference between loaded and unloaded.
We got offered a green house the other, so today I set about removing the glass. It’s quite time consuming unclipping and removing pains of glass that are grown in with moss over many years. I might try just carrying the frame home in one complete piece.
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