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07-08-2011, 12:04 AM

#21

quilt-fanatic

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Location: near Norman OK

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I also have a sewing 'closet' can shut the doors and no one is the wiser to the mess. Now the fabric I have just stacked on the love seat in there, but we can't have everything.... Until I get a new house with a dedicated craft room.

07-08-2011, 03:09 AM

#22

jitkaau

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Location: Australia

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Quote:

Originally Posted by quiltinghere

someone used a flat door and placed it on top of 2 base cabinets....

I did this, and covered it with vinyl to make it slippery for quilting. A bit of wooden beading around the outside made it look like an old fashioned desk. It's too big for where I live now, so I have one that is similar to the Joann's one. It is convenient to drop the leaves when not in use and it was cheap.

07-08-2011, 03:55 AM

#23

chamby

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Location: Clemmons, NC

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Quote:

Originally Posted by haircut2

Check out http://www.traceystables.com/ I just had the Quilters Workstation delivered. I liked the leg room. It is a corner table with machine cut out (insert for your machine included) and drawers. Her tables are really made nice and prices are reasonable compared to some other brand names. Now I need to sell my Horn quilters cabinet!

That is nice but where are the prices listed??

07-08-2011, 04:02 AM

#24

1Blondie

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Location: Wisconsin

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I have a Koala and I love it.

07-08-2011, 04:04 AM

#25

Quilting Aggi

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Location: Newfoundland, Canada

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I have a Horn cabinet and I loove loooooove loooooooove it!

Here is mine!
http://www.hornofamerica.com/product...&productID=133

07-08-2011, 04:10 AM

#26

Quilting Aggi

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Location: Newfoundland, Canada

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Kwent!!! wow!!! great suggestions!!!! I have a large L-Shaped room. I can fit 5 of us (Sewing group friends) in my room comfortably, although we use Mum's kitchen (which is off my sewing room in her basement apartment) as the cutting/pressing room.

I plan to revamp my space in the near future and I have a good idea what I want, but I DEFINETELy need to graph it out and put in exactely what I want!!!

thanks for sharing all that great info with us! Your sewing space is very cute!

07-08-2011, 05:07 AM

#27

AnitaSt

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Location: Marathon, Texas

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I use an Ikea computer desk but have not had it modified to allow the machine to sit flush wit the surface...at least not yet. I had space limits and the price was good for this desk. It has cabinet doors on the side where you sit but I took them off and use stacking plastic drawers in the openings.

Anita

07-08-2011, 05:11 AM

#28

Jo Mama

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Location: N.W. Florida

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Check out Martelli's -- if you have a jillion dollars --wish I could afford it.

07-08-2011, 05:21 AM

#29

sc-sunshine

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Join Date: Mar 2010

Location: South Carolina

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BeckyL

I need to buy a sewing table and I would like to know what brand you recommend and what features you consider important and which features are luxuries. Thanks for your input.

I don't have a lot of money and was wanting the "perfect" sewing table...I bought a used folding sewing table at habitat...I can move it easily and any machine fits. Plus I can use the Samsonite folding tables and they are the same height. I'm always on the lookout for another one. They may still be made. In the 60s they were popular.

showing folding sewing table from front so you can see cutout for machine

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07-08-2011, 05:37 AM

#30

mar32428

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Location: Winter PArk, Florida

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I bought three 6' x2' tables at Office Depot for $30 a piece. I measured the height I wanted before I shopped and these were perfect. I use each one for a different machine, sewing, serger, embroidery etc.

Then I bought three drawer plastic cabinets from WM to fit under the tables to hold additional parts (which I'm always misplacing), pieces for the current project and and info dealing with that machine I want to keep from magazines or the internet that I can never find when I want it.