Not wierd at all, I have just the metal legs with footpedal base, and DH made a drop leaf table for me in my craft room.

A few years ago, 4-H members here were refinishing old sewing machine cabinets to use as lamp tables, removed all the sticky finish and did lots of sanding, the tables looked lovely. piecefully, the old one

I purchase evey set of treadle legs I find, they have so many uses. I also purchased two tables made from them. One is a work table in my small kitchen and the other is used as a desk. I am thinking about using a set I have in my bathroom to hold my washbasin.

I found one in my alley 25yrs ago and put a piece of marble on top of it. Now is a table.The only thing I don't like about it is all the dust it collects on the metal. I have to vacuum it with a soft brush.

Go for it

my uncle made a beautiful table out of the legs and treadle for my grandmother. Go for it!

Buy it I sure would could make something pretty out of a singer object.LOL

I found a set of irons with a small top already attached and what does it hold? Why another vintage machine of course :lol: :lol:

Zipit,

Love your idea.

Quilter68

I have one my husband put a top on and it is a good place for your cutting mat and it is a bit decorative also, I have room enough in my sewing room to have that and my reg. cutting table.
Pickle

Hi Jan, Please -- We need to see a picky of your "pretty dome-topped wooden boxed Singer hand crank machine on your lovely "Special" wooden table. Please, Please.
Thank you in anticipation. lol Gleniveve

Many years ago my mum could no longer fix her treadle machine, so dad took off the machine section and found a 3 foot X 2 foot piece of marble and made a plant table that use to sit in the gazebo now its out in the garden but has always looked a little unique and I thought special

I found a "New Home" base with all the parts at a yard sale in 1976 & a local carpenter put a beautiful oak top on it with drop leaves. It seemed to be calling me to buy it & fix it up as we had just moved into our newly built home. It's one of my favorite pieces.
I think you should go for it.

Actually, I have one I love! Someone found the neat drawers from another machine at an antique shop, and made the table. I bought it at a fundraiser where the creator donated it. Actually, it's too neat to sew on. It is in my entryway, and I use it to display other treasures.

No picture, as I am not computer savy enough to know how to do it. Sorry!

I have one in my family room - being used as a table. The machine is still in it, however I have never even tried to see if it works. People comment that the love the 'table' and what a great use/idea.

I have one in my family room - being used as a table. The machine is still in it, however I have never even tried to see if it works. People comment that the love the 'table' and what a great use/idea.

These make the greatest tables!!! I have two treadle bottoms which we made two tables for my sewing room. I love them. Buy them and enjoy!

its done all the time..check ebay and you will see lots of "doneovers"...they are neat

I have seen these done with a faux marble top and selling for a LOT of $$

It's been done before, my Dad made a table back in the 60's, go for it.

You just described my sewing table is.... the iron base of an old treadle (with treadle removed) with a white and red enamel top..... I spotted it at a flea market and paid $50 for it, and before I could get it back to my car I had several women offer me twice what I paid for it, but I just smiled politely and said sorry, she's coming home with me.

Not weird at all my dh made a table with a large drawer in mine and it works very well in my sewing machine room

You betcha! When my grandmother closed down her home, my uncle was going to pitch one because he saw it as junk. I grabbed it, my husband made a top for it,and painted it white. It now sits on my front porch to put my plants on it in the summer...along with a glass of tea!

We actually visited a coastal tourist town in NY last year where a lovely little Bistro had all their tables made from old treadle bases.

I have one with a ply wood top
that my machine sits on.

You are not weird.

J J

i have a table with the Singer bottom, treadle and all. I bought it because my Mother used to have a treadle machine and it reminded me of that time. so yes, go for it.

Years ago I found the bottom of a treadle machine, no cabinet. I took it home sanded it down, painted it, purchased a glass top and it has been a 'table' in my house ever since. I have gotten so many compliments on it over the years.

It wouldn't be weird. There is a family resturant in the Denver, CO metro area that all the tables were made with them. I would think the place is still there, but I don't remember the name of it.

Sounds like it would make a great desk or table or anything else you can come up with. If you haven't already, I would go back and get it!

Hey! It is OK to be weird if that is what you like!

I have seen desks and tables made from the bottoms of sewing machine cabinets for years. So go for it. I would.
Take care.
Linda

I have seen these done with a granite top put on them -- it makes a lovely table for any room.

It seems to me that it would be about the right height to sit next to a regular machine cabinet to help hold the quilt that is being machine quilted. Or, before that, to hold a small pressing board area, or the strips that make the quilt. And that's before you consider all the ideas that have been listed for the rest of the house!

I just purchased a 100 yr old treadle -- I cleaned/repaired it & now the machine runs so smoothly but it needs new leather. I looked for a long time before finding this baby, have another machine now working w/o the stand, so will keep looking for a stand w/o a machine.

Nothing about old treadles can possibly be weird!

No, it is not weird. I have seen them many times used for tables and desks.

My quilting friend took just the legs and had a beveled edge, heavy duty glass top made for it, extra large and she put her regular sewing machine on it. It is a stunner! It gives her LOTS of room, she has the new mixed with the treasured old, and because it is glass, it doesn't overpower the room. Voila!

I think it would be a great idea, bring part of the past into the present.

I had 2, notice the word "had", of these old machines that I wanted to make tables out of until I found out my dh gave them away. :cry:

I have actually seen tables made out of these legs. Here in my part of the south we use everything!

I have a friend that bought one and put a granite top on it. She bought the granite very cheap because it was too small for anything else. The owner of the granite site told her he sells lots of smaller pieces cheap. Can't use them so he sells them. She has several pieces she uses in her kitchen as trivets.

Not weird at all, I have the legs myself with plans to do it also. Just haven't hard time, etc to get it done. Go for it! :thumbup: