I bought a piece of plexiglass, larger than most light boxes that I could find. I put two plastic shoe boxes on the table, place my plexiglass on top and my little Ott light underneath. I do have to move the Ott light around a bit if I'm tracing something large, but that's easy to do, and the whole thing collapses down and takes up very little space when I'm done with it. I previously tried taping the pattern and fabric to my sliding glass door, but that didn't work very well for me. For one thing, I lived in Oregon so had to wait for there to be enough light outside, and for another I found it very uncomfortable tracing at different heights against a vertical surface. But that does work for some people.