Please share your Homemade/repurposed sewing tables!
#21
http://moosestashquilting.blogspot.c...ere-i-sew.html
You inspired me to write a blog post. I have to say, I do love my table!
You inspired me to write a blog post. I have to say, I do love my table!
#22
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
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http://moosestashquilting.blogspot.c...ere-i-sew.html
You inspired me to write a blog post. I have to say, I do love my table!
You inspired me to write a blog post. I have to say, I do love my table!
However, do you not knock your knees when you are sewing? Or do you stand to sew?
#23
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Montana
Posts: 414
My friend gave me an old desk and another friend used a shelf I already had to support the machine after he cut the space for my machine. I ,too, lost the center drawer but still have the rest. Love it and it's just the right size. My cutting table is made from a dog grooming table left over from when I was showing Lhasas' in the 80's. I used bed raisers to get the height right and a 40x40 piece of plywood on top covered with contac paper to smooth it out. It gives me plenty of space for cutting and holding "stuff". As I'm only 5' tall all now work without hurting my back.
#24
Here is my Janome 9000 in a repurposed featherweight table in our 5th wheel trailer.
http://kalamaquilts.blogspot.com/200...my-throat.html
This is the Janome 7700 in a repurposed heavy banquet table.
The difference in using a set-in machine and a table top one is night and day.
http://kalamaquilts.blogspot.com/200...my-throat.html
This is the Janome 7700 in a repurposed heavy banquet table.
The difference in using a set-in machine and a table top one is night and day.
#26
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Pensacola, FL
Posts: 1,599
Thanks gang! Now I have the ITCH for a new table! Mine is a large computer table with a recessed part for the keyboard but that is where my machine sits. This only cost me $15 bucks at the GW store a couple of years ago.
BUT... I actually toom my machine to a sewing class just recently and realized how steady and solid that table was compared to my vibrating thing! That was the first itch I had. Now I really got it bad. Guess I know what I'll be doing
soon.
BUT... I actually toom my machine to a sewing class just recently and realized how steady and solid that table was compared to my vibrating thing! That was the first itch I had. Now I really got it bad. Guess I know what I'll be doing
soon.
#27
Great comments on using dining table. My sewing table made for me by an uncle when I was a teenager (1950's). My mother gave me the of a bow window in our dining room for my sewing area. The cabinet has very heavy drawers as entire cabinet made out of 3/4 inch plywood. Have wanted a lighter cabinet for years. DH can do anything with a saw and hammer but somehow we haven't tackled this project. Now after shoulder surgery I find I have to careful. If new table used, I would miss the drawers but figure I could use a basket set-up on wheels. Other side of my sewing room is computer area.
#29
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 500
We found this farm table at a yard sale for $50. My DH cut it out so my machine could be dropped into it. I had a plexi glass table for my machine that I had been using, so that went onto the table. He followed Eleanor Burns tutorial. I love it and my shoulders don't hurt anymore.[ATTACH=CONFIG]370109[/ATTACH]
I know how to attach pics if I start a thread, but I don't think I did it right attaching it to a post reply.
I know how to attach pics if I start a thread, but I don't think I did it right attaching it to a post reply.
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trying one more time - got kicked off site trying to correct my own reply now trying under Manage Attachments but takes so-o-o- long - of course I have dial-up which is a pain in itself! Decided to drag photo from my own Photo file - we'll see what happened. Forgive me all, but I really enjoyed this subject. /Users/anne/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Modified/2012/Sewing Table/GEDC0772.JPG
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