Sewing Machine Salvage to Plate Rack

Today is another of the never ending projects you can make with salvage from an antique sewing machine.  One of the other parts I’ve never found a new use for is the round part that covers the wheel.

I hate to let any parts go to waste if I can help it, so I finally decided to just have a stare-down with that thing, until an idea came to me.  If I leave something laying on my kitchen counter long enough, it drives me nuts wanting to get it off the counter, and I just brainstorm until I come up with something, and it finally hit me…a plate holder!  It was such an easy project, too.  I used a piece of barn wood siding, stained and dry-brush painted it, then screwed it into the wood.  Done!

It’s definitely one of the quirkier projects I’ve ever made, but I really do like it.  It’s roomy enough to hold a stack of paper plates, or at least 3 real plates.  I actually would probably just screw it directly into a wall, but I’ll probably list the piece in my shop, so I needed a way to display it.  I have another one of these parts from another sewing machine, so I’ll probably hang it inside my pantry for paper plates.
Side note – Yesterday, I showed you the antique sewing machine table legs that my husband turned in to a rustic wood side table, and someone asked what he did to stabilize the legs.  Well, the answer is – he didin’t.  He was working on the table and set it off to the side of the kitchen, so I thought it was done.  Last night, he saw me sharing the post on my FB page, and said, “You realize I wasn’t finished with that table right?  I still need to add a connecting piece of wood between the legs.  So, if you decide to use old sewing machine legs like that, make sure to add some kind of brace between the legs.  If you make a new table top that is the same width as the original sewing machine top was, you should be able to keep the original piece that braced the legs, but our new top was smaller, so we couldn’t use that piece.  I do hope to find another way to use it, because it’s pretty cool-looking too.
If you missed any of my previous sewing machine salvage projects, you can find them here, here, and here.

I still have one more sewing machine salvage project in the works, and hope to show it to you soon!

Blessings,

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