My wife is a quilter. She is also sneaky, devious, alert, cunning and sly. I like that about her....
She opened by asking if I could shorten a telescoping steel curtain rod by 12". "Oh, yeah, oy can do that mate!" Recently-accquired bandsaw made me her hero in short order. Then....
"I'd like to hang the curtain rod from a bookshelf to display my quilt du jour. Maybe we could drive some nails into the walnut?"
In two brief sentences she'd conveyed both a functional specification and motivation to devise and make something suitable.
So I did.
If interested, you can view my projet du jour at