Organ cover, soup, and assembly

I have been working on the replacement organ cover for my nephew and it has been a battle. I bought some 59" wide twill fabric and lined it with some wide stiff fabric that someone have given me a bolt of. I needed to make this cover without any seams meaning any two pieces of fabric that were cut. The organ is heavy and the previous cover fabric was nowhere near tough enough.

I layered the fabric and marked it for where the strapping needed sewn. I pressed on some iron on fleece for the bottom and ends.

I pinned the layers together then sewed on the strapping. The strapping is what is carrying the weight of the organ.

I needed to box the corners. Again I didn't want to cut the fabric so I folded them, sewed the seam with a straight stitch and then a zigzag stitch

I flipped it over to the right side and pushed the triangle towards the main body. I sewed thru all the layers twice. This seam is not going to come apart!

I went back to the wrong side and topstitched with two rows of stitching the triangle to the body of the case.

I did this for all for corners. It was like wrestling a bear! I trimmed the top edge and added a wide binding to catch all the layers. The plaid fabric was a couple inches narrower than the green fabric so I wanted to make sure I caught all the layers and that they were securely sewn together. I worked on this over the last four days and it is almost done. I still need to add some strapping with a handle at each end and a top with velcro to hold it in place.

Besides fighting with that cover, the radon guys came Saturday around 9:15 am. By 1:00 they were done. Drilled a hole in the side of the house, drilled a hole in the slab, installed a lot of pipe and ran an electrical line for the fan. I forgot to take a picture of the final installation on the inside.

They set up the radon sensor to record the levels after the installation. I will know the results later on this week.

Sunday I cleaned up the kitchen, made two pots of soup - chili and Stanley Tucci's kale and bean soup. I had to make a quick trip to the store because I had no red kidney beans for the chili. Yes, I put beans in my chili!

When I got back from the store I went over to my neighbor's house to see the progress. The masons were forming up the footers for the new porch. This hole had to be 8 feet deep!

I decided I needed to put together the replacement chair. I bought an office chair for where I work and the hydraulics died - yes, I had to buy my own chair. There was a warranty on the chair so I got credit for a new chair. The new chair had been sitting in the garage for at least 6 weeks. It took me longer to find a hex wrench than to put it together. I did put the one part on backwards, so I had to unscrew four screws and fix that. By the time I was almost done I found the hex wrench which was included. Ugh! It was called Part D and was never mentioned in the instructions. I had the chair put together in about 40 minutes with half that time looking for the right hex wrench. I will use this in my sewing room

The chair I was using at the sewing machine I salvaged from the hospital job I was on about 7 years ago. The hospital left it in the area that was going to be demolished and even though it was a little ratty, it worked. That is the fun part of some of the jobs we get - rooting thru and salvaging perfectly good stuff that is left behind. This will now be my garage chair to sit in when I need to rest a bit when I am doing yardwork.

I "fixed" my chair at work by finding a couple metal plates and holding them in place with duct tape. It keeps the chair at the right height. Not pretty, but it works!