After my grampa passed away, I was given his old pipe stand. I'm working on my sewing room, decluttering, etc, and really want to repurpose this to be useful for my quilting and/or other sewing things.

The glass bowl is probably about 1 quart in volume. The stand is around 11" in diameter and 8" tall.

Looking at it, I might be able to sew some pouches to hang from the upper holes and rest on the bottom, similar to what you might find for buckets, but outside of that, I'm not sure.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

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I don't know if you knit or crochet, but as soon as I saw the photo, the first thing I thought of is how perfect the holes on the outer edge would be to hold my crochet hooks, and the bowl would be a perfect spot to keep things like my stitch markers, plastic yarn needles, and a small pair of scissors.

Use the bowl for your buttons, or for your extra bobbins, or any small things your have around. Use the outside for long marking pencils, pens, or even for scissors (put points down). Have fun filling it up!

I love the smell of good pipe tobacco.....it must smell heavenly.

I wouldn't do a thing with it. It's beautiful as is.

The bowl in the center-candy dish! Is there something you like to snack on as you sew? Maybe M&Ms. If the stem holes are big enough you could place favorite thimbles in them. The bottom looks like a deviled egg plate but don't do that. It looks fairly shallow. Think I'm stumped on that.

I agree. It looks very "pettable" - like the wood would be silky feelng.

Here's is what i did with mine.

Boy does that bring back some good memories!!! My dad!! He had one of those sitting by his chair! Thanks for sharing....