Today I want to talk about my absolute favourite room in the house. My knitting room!!! The house was built with five bedrooms, one being the maids quarters. So instead of having a silly very tiny guest room I or an office for computer and papers, I am going to make a crafty knitting type room. YAY!!
This picture shows the knitting room as we found it. It had the single white iron bed and the little white dresser in it. Both items we still have, but we do believe we will be selling the bed. The dresser is going to be used in Imogen' s bedroom between the two beds as mentioned in the previous post.
The knitting room is located at the back of the house. It has one of the greatest views of the ocean and light house next to the guest bedroom. Its in a little hall of its own off the upstairs hallway and next to the guest bedroom. It is a great private little area. This photo looks straight into the knitting room and just around that wall on the left is the guest bedroom.
This is standing inside inside the knitting room. Here you can see my wonderful husband (who was clueless his picture was being taken) sitting in my knitting chair. It is the wicker rocker that was found in Patrick's bedroom in earlier photographs. It is going to remain in that corner. Beside that you can see the top of my cubbies, which was the best find ever!
Sorry about the poor picture, but I didn't have time to make sure they were perfect. This is looking into the room from the hallway. You can see the awesome cubbies that my mother in law found at South Works Antiques Mall in Cambridge. It had two doors on it and you would have thought it was just a standard cupboard, but no no no! There are amazing little cubbies in there with alphabet markings on them and some numbers. I have been dreaming of this piece of furniture since we bought the house and when we found it I was over the moon. I am going to either strip it and stain it lighter or paint the outside white and leave the cubbies wood colour.
On the right hand side I have an old foot peddle Singer sewing machine. I picked it up at auction for TEN dollars! The drawers were full of stuff too. No one at the auction would bid on it and it was kind of a funny moment. I had been looking for one, but everywhere I looked they were about 125 or higher. So when this came up I expected it to at least each 60-80. The price just kept dropping, then the auctioner said "ten dollars anyone?" So I waved my little paper and giggled away.
In the corner between the cubbies and the window I have a wool drying spinning rack that I also picked up at a different auction. Everyone kept referring to it as a wool winder, but it is much too large to be a winder. There are bends in the pieces that the wool would sit against as well so we figured it was a drying rack for when they are dying or just preparing the wool. It was later confirmed by an antique expert that it is a drying rack. Sorry about the picture its hard to get out of the corner.
The last piece that I have already gotten for this room is a last look mirror. It was in South Works Antique Mall and I was eyeing it for about a year or so. It was so nice and I could use it for needles and such in my knitting room right about the sewing machine desk. It was a bit out of my price range, but come Christmas my family shocked me with it! I was over the moon. I will have to pull it out of storage and take pictures to add on here.
For wall art, up in the attic we found little cards that have bible verses and beautiful art from the 20's. They are playing card size. On the back they have the the sunday school lessons for the week and memory verses. I am going to frame some of these if I can find frames to do it and have them posted. If I cannot find frames I am thinking of doing the cork board with the ribbon to just tuck them in. I will take pictures of those or scan them when I do the last look mirror.
This is my knitting room just about complete! I am super excited and I finished it super cheap with great finds and furniture left behind. Now I just need to stock my cubbies with some super awesome wool.
OH! The last thing I will have in there probably beside my desk is my miniature spinning wheel that I bought on my honeymoon in 2004. We had it for years and my mother in law loved it. Once we moved I didn't really have a place for it to be seen and appreciated so she put it in her little house in Newfoundland, now I am going to have it in my knitting room when its all done. :)
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