mpspeedy

I have health problems that require me to make my sewing set up as ergonomic as possible. I purchased a 4 ft brown table with fold up legs from Staples and had my husband who is a machinist by trade and very handy with tools cut the legs down for me to make it 27 inches high. The idea is to have your machine sewing surface level with your hands when they are extended with the elbows bent. I have one of those clear acrilic extension surfaces on my machine. I purchased the extra large one to give me more surface area. I actually broke my original one. My handy hubby made me a replacement out of plexiglass. We were able to use the legs etc. from the old one. I like the clear surface as I can put stuff under it and beable to see what is there. Since I don't machine quilt anything bigger than twin size that is usually enough surface for me. When I am sewing the binding on a larger quilt I will set up another folding table behine my machine set up to hold the extra weight etc. I also splurged on one of those tilt table things for my machine. It also makes sewing more comfortable. You can get the same effect with a few door stops under the back of your machine.