irishrose

I saved a 1978 Singer cabinet that was an unusual size - bigger than a normal one. With an oversized piece of wallboard under my cutting mat, it works very well. I covered the wallboard with fabric. Not movable, but it has its own corner.

leatheflea

I have a folding table and a cutting table. The cutting table from joanns is now in our spare room and we only bring it out if needed. I like the folding table much better, sturdier.

T-Anne

We found a old dining room table with a drawer under it and it is perfect. My husband modified the legs so I can raise it up or down easily (so I can stand or sit and cut). Cheap too.

NanaCsews2

My DH took the large mirror/shelving unit off our old bedroom set dresser and placed a wide melamine board from the hardware store on it. The length of the board is the same length as the room-9 ft, and the dresser is 4 1/2 feet, which gives lots of space on both sides of the dresser for storage. We placed 2x4's on top of the dresser and as brackets along the wall underneath the board for the height I needed the table to support the board. The Alto Quiltcut 2 is on one end of the cutting table, a large cutting mat is on the other end, with plenty of room in between for using the tracing box set up, drawing out patterns, cutting patterns, etc. The drawers of the dresser store items for ironing, scraps of fabric, and fusibles and stabilizers. The cutting table is very sturdy as the dresser is a heavy duty 1980's design. I use an old desk with side drawers for a small ironing board surface to the right of me when sewing, and a heavy duty roll-away table on the left for a small rotating cutting mat.

sewbeadit

I have had one for years.

QuiltingCrazie

I have a plastic fold up table, Not that it ever gets folded think its from Sams or walmat. I know its width is 24" because my cutting mat 24x36 fits perfect on width and in length its a little longer. It's perfect for me. Think it was $30-40. Hard plastic so durable to and more importantly the price was right at the time.

mcdaniel023

I have the table from Joanne's. I got it used at a quilter's estate sale. I have had it for 4 years. I like it alot. Yes, it was wobbly. I have a small rolling plastic storage with drawers holding my patterns. I just put it against the front leg and it doesn't budge. It stays out all the time. My large mat stays on it along with all of my rulers. It is so handy. I use it almost everyday. I also use it to spray baste my quilts. Those large office clips work perfectly and I just work in sections. It comes perfectly clean with a little goo gone. Your back will love it.

gsbuffalo

I have 2 of the cutting tables from joanns and bought them both cheap on craigslist. they are alittle shakey but the height is great and the space is good. when I am blessed with alittle more money I would probably buy something alot better but for now no complaints from me

mpspeedy

I have one of the tables from Joanns. At present it is piled three feet high almost all over with fabric for my Linus quilts. I haven't been able to fold it up for several years as it is also piled high underneath. It is a great place to store things under if you have the room to leave it open. The table is well worth the money as it is the right height for your back unless you are very tall or very short. Because you can fold it up entirely or use it half open it allows you to use it in a smaller space and then get it out of the way if necessary. Since mine is loaded I made myself another cutting/ironing station out of a rolling kitchen island I got at Ollie's Discount store. It has a large drawer and open shelves under it that work great for more of my junk. I made an ironing surface for it out of a 1/4 square piece of plywood I had cut for me at Lowe's. I covered it with batting and metalic fabric used in ironingboard covers. I glued strips of 2" by 2"firing strips on the underside of it to make it stable on the table top. I can remove the ironing surface if I want but I usually just throw a cutting mat on top of it when I need to cut stuff. In the room where I actully sew I have what was once a tallboy dresser that I cut the legs off of. It makes a great 20x34 inch surface to do trimming, cutting blocks or with the addition of a small ironing matt a pressing surface at just the right height. The older I get the more important it is that I don't have to bend over to much when pressing or cutting.

pinkberrykay

Head over to your local Good Will or Habitat or Humanity Restore store and find something you can lay a piece of plywood on. I went to my local Goodwill and there was an old Science Table it didn't dawn on my at first that this would be a good table but something kept calling me back to it. Once I realized that it would make the perfect cutting table I went over to check it out, the price $6.99. I went straight home to pick up my truck and DH and took it home. It has 4 drawers, cabinet and a sink I use to keep things out of my way while cutting. Heres a picture...[ATTACH=CONFIG]312039[/ATTACH]

I used to use an antique dresser with a piece of plywood that fit my cutting board, heres a pic.
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