Bookshelves
Unpack
Willa set about unpacking her carpet bag…
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Cardboard
…but was unenthusiastic about putting her favourite volumes into the sagging cardboard bookshelves in the living room.
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Place
The human was busy with a Christmas project, but offered to finish making a proper bookshelf in exchange for some help with the fiddly parts.
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Stack
Willa helped with the sawing of a stack of short pieces of old used wooden blinds from IKEA, 25 of them were for the Christmas project, five slightly longer ones for book shelves and three for the bookshelf back.
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saw
Then we sawed the uprights and the cap piece for the bookshelf out of a meter stick.
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A Place for everything
And assembled a sturdy set of bookshelves. The shelves are slightly inset into shallow gouges, and then glued. The hardest part was waiting for the glue to dry!
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Neat and tidy!
Everyone agreed they were a great improvement on the cardboard…
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The Secret Garden
…and Min sat right down to lose herself in The Secret Garden.
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Quimper Hittys 
Lovely and ingenious bookcase! Congratulations to Willa and the human for all their careful and precise work. The vintage spools of thread on the shelves are a fun touch!
Thanks! We found the cotton reels made excellent bookends!
Yes, very lovely and ingenious as mentioned by “blueheron”. I’m coming right over after I finishing cleaning the last of the windows and if invited, would like to sit down and read for a bit myself in that comfy looking spot by the sturdy bookcase.
We’ll put the kettle on right away! We love visitors – you are certainly invited! Maybe Jane has made some scones…
Delightful!!!!
Thanks so much!
I echo every word from blueheron – and love the spool bookends! Best of all is use of the metre-stick (I’d love a bookshelf made for myself, using a giant one)
The wood was a very nice thickness, weight, and depth! All we had to do was cut the right lengths! We have lots of nice threads!
Beautiful! I love books! I’ve made about a hundred or so “little” books for the doll’s house that is no more. Sigh… I need to make a new one… for myself this time.
We find that making little books is very satisfying for the human, and of course the Hittys are eager for every new volume I give them. They are voracious readers!
Very clever, the Hitty’s have a marvelous collection of books but the lovely new bookshelf is almost full. They might need a second one?
It is true, they do need another one – fortunately this bookcase only used about half the meter stick!
Inspired use of the blind slats and ruler!
We’ve been eyeing the meter stick for a good long while, though the cardboard one did the job, it wasn’t particularly pretty…Willa was a good catalyst for getting the bookcase built at last!
fabulous. I’m using blind offcuts to level my benchpeg. They are sooooo useful!
They are useful! I use them as warp spacers too when I am weaving. We have a huge stack of them, I couldn’t bear to just throw them out, or use them for kindling!
What a wonderful library and now, it is perfectly housed too!
beautifully done!! It looks wonderful…you are so clever. Now what could the Christmas project be??
A beautiful bookcase and so nice to see Min again