Light Box
08-07-2013, 12:04 PM
#21
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I made mine using a large piece 18"x18" of Plexiglas which I sit on the table using 4 vegetable cans in the corners. Then I found a sting of white icicle Christmas lights at thrift store for $2.50. Put lights under the Plexiglas and presto you have a beautiful light box.
08-07-2013, 01:54 PM
#22
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Originally Posted by Tartan
Bellaboo posted this last year and I ran to Walmart toy department to get mine. Unless you need a big light box, this has a surface about 8x11 and I LOVE it. I use it for tracing Redwork patterns onto muslin. I have a design on white paper in sharpie with a thick piece of muslin on top and I think you can see how great it works. For $25 in Canada, it works perfect!
08-07-2013, 05:24 PM
#25
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I used a9x13 glass Pyrex cake pan that came with a lid. I bought stick on led light at Walmart that is battery powered with remote. Stuck the light to the lid and then you put it lid side down and have a nice glass surface to trace on. This was before hubby told me" I have an old X-ray box that u can have. Love it cause it is huge.
08-08-2013, 02:33 AM
#27
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Yup went and got one too! It works perfect and not alot of money had to be spent on it either Check it out before investing in the high end ones at QS or in Quilt Catalogs
Originally Posted by Tartan
Bellaboo posted this last year and I ran to Walmart toy department to get mine. Unless you need a big light box, this has a surface about 8x11 and I LOVE it. I use it for tracing Redwork patterns onto muslin. I have a design on white paper in sharpie with a thick piece of muslin on top and I think you can see how great it works. For $25 in Canada, it works perfect!
08-08-2013, 02:43 AM
#28
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Location: Saginaw Michigan
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My husband made me one, he found a old florescent ceiling light fixture, it's a rectangle with a wood frame around the shade. He made the shade stable, when it was on a ceiling you simply lifted the shade out to change a bulb. He put a back on the fixture, I turn it now upside down to use it. I like it because I can sit it on my kitchen island and use it to trace patterns comfortably. Before I tried to trace against a window pane and that was terrible.
08-08-2013, 04:32 AM
#30
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Have heard of putting a piece of plexiglass over a top loading washing machine with a light inside for larger designs, taping to a sliding glass door, using large glass baking dishes with a touch light. There are lots of possibilities that don't cost much or sometimes nothing.
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