maryb119

No. I use the picture window in my livingroom. The neighbors usually ask me what I'm working on when they see paper taped all over it.

reginalovesfabric

my brother built me one and I don't use it much only when I want to hand embroidery and trace the designs on the fabric

OmaForFour

I have a FW which also has its original table. I lift the FW out of its inset, place a piece of plexiglass over the hole. Then I set a small lamp (minus the shade) on the floor underneath it. Makes a wonderful light box!

quote=#1piecemaker]When I was trying to put a picture on a piece of fabric, I got an old empty drawer, a piece of flexiglass and a flashlight and went to work. My "new" lightbox did the trick.It worked like a charm. Has any of you ever done the same thing?[/quote]

quiltmom04

I used to tape things to the picture window in the living room.

Bluehouse

I just got a light box from a friend for a Christmas gift. I can't wait to use it! I am starting to do embroidery (by hand) again and the light box will make it SO much easier to trace.

sewmom

I made a small lightbox out of the 1/4 inch foam board. i put slits in the side so the pieces fit together and can be stored flat. I found the clear glass a little too bright so I etched the other side withetching cream. It's only the size of a sheet of paper, but it works ok for small projects.

FroggyinTexas

Love my light boxes. I bought one and made another by using the old fashioned one-function scanner that someone gave me after it broke. You take its insides out, velcro a flourescent light of the right size to the hollow core, stick the cord through a convenient hole--there will be several in the hollow core of the scanner or you can easily make one--and voila', you have a light box with a cover.

Those old scanner are hard to find now, but you might find one at a garage sale for less than a dollar.

froggyintexas

FroggyinTexas

Love my light boxes. I bought one and made another by using the old fashioned one-function scanner that someone gave me after it broke. You take its insides out, velcro a flourescent light of the right size to the hollow core, stick the cord through a convenient hole--there will be several in the hollow core of the scanner or you can easily make one--and voila', you have a light box with a cover.

Those old scanner are hard to find now, but you might find one at a garage sale for less than a dollar.

froggyintexas

iamjanet

I have a sheet of plexiglass. I open up my dining room table, put the plexiglass on top of the opening, put a lamp on the floor <underneath>, and it makes a perfect, inexpensive, light box.
Janet

catrancher

I was using a light box used for treating seasonal affective disorder (seasonal depression . . . whatever), but it was kind of a pain. It wasn't flat for one thing. So I decided to buy an actual light box. I like it a lot. It works so well, and I do a lot of applique. I also like it for making landscape quilt patterns. I've heard of people making them from those square plastic thread totes, however. Just take out the thread peg pieces, then put a flashlight inside, and Voila!