My favorite tool is one of my vintage sewing machines preferably my Japanese 15!
What I have adapted to make quilts would be my quilting tables/benches. They are solid wood door planks that I cut a hole into one of them and mounted a treadle under. I can change wooden plates out to fit which ever machine I want to use that day and if I want another layout table I can put a solid plank in it and I am good to go.
The one I wasted money on........nothing so far but I am sure that will change.
Billy