Do you have a sewing table? Do you have a cutting table?
Does it suit you, or do you wish it was different? Here is my solution.
When I moved house I was able to have a sewing room. I was lucky and got the biggest bedroom for my sewing room. It has a built in wardrobe, and some built in cupboards into the eaves, so plenty of places to hide the stash!
Now being a big room I needed to find a sewing table. I looked around, asked people, and Ikea kept popping up. I wanted a large sewing table, and also a cutting table. I decided to go with two matching Ikea tables. I like to trying and get the best I can for as little cost – hey, I’m from Yorkshire.
So I bought two Ikea Ingo tables. I’d seen an Ikea hack where one of these tables had been converted into a sewing machine table by cutting into the top and adding a lower support to sit the machine into. This hasn’t happened yet, I’m happy with the table as it is, but I still keep thinking about it. I was going to post a link here to the instructions for cutting your table to hold your machine but there are quite a few online, so I’ll leave it to you to search as it all depends on what shape your machine is.
The other table I wanted to use as a cutting table, so I bought some leg raisers which work great for me. I currently have my tables back to back, so one with my machine on, and the other behind it with my cutting mat on. These raisers can be bought cheaply, I got mine on eBay, but I know you can find them in disability stores, they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes/heights so you should be able to find them easily.
I bought two tables the same as I thought these would work well for layering a quilt, so I simply remove the leg raisers and have the two tables at the same height, this makes a large solid surface measuring 120cm x 150cm which seems to work well for me when layering a quilt, I can press it, and layer it, and easily move it around. I should say that the table tops came shrink-wrapped, and I left the film on for ease of moving fabric around, although it’s got a bit tatty now, so I will be removing it. I also move these tables into an L shape when I’m quilting so that there is plenty of table top to support the weight of the quilt. I do have a small table which I can use for my machine which sits in the corner of the L shape and the machine extension table just overhangs a little onto the tables. Hopefully you can see what I mean in my photo’s and they may help you.
Chris Cross
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