sewing-tables-msg - 3/30/00 Ideas and comments on sewing tables. Cutting tables. NOTE: See also the files: sewing-msg, fabric-SCA-msg, merch-fabrics-msg, sergers-msg, sewng-machnes-msg, fabric-ident-msg, clothng-forms-msg, CMA-sew-supl-msg. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday. This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with separate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter. The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors. Please respect the time and efforts of those who have written these messages. The copyright status of these messages is unclear at this time. If information is published from these messages, please give credit to the originator(s). Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: THLord Stefan li Rous Stefan at florilegium.org ************************************************************************ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 09:47:36 -0600 From: "Alexandria Doyle" To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu Subject: Re: Sewing tables Scot and Domino Eddy wrote: > I would like to build a sewing table for my wife and I to use. Any > suggestions from those who have made them? Materials? Dimensions? Dos > and don'ts? Etc? > Jovian Skleros Make sure it's at the height(or thereabouts) of a kitchen counter top, higher and it's hard to work at, lower it gives you a back ache. I made mine at 36" wide, wide enough to layout 60" fabric folded, with a bit of an edge for all those other things that end up on the table. I also like the shelf I have on the base to set things quickly out of the way when needed. Biggest problem has been the legs, I think I'm on the third set-new design each time. Alexandria Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:01:39 -0500 From: Irene leNoir To: Subject: Re: Sewing tables >I would like to build a sewing table for my wife and I to use. Any >suggestions from those who have made them? Materials? Dimensions? Dos >and don'ts? Etc? Well, I haven't actually made a sewing table, but I've seen and worked with some nice ones. A mixture of things I've seen and ideas of my own have resulted in the following specifications for my dream sewing table. (BTW, this is for the table that all the prep work is done on, not the table that holds the sewing machine(s).) The top of the table would measure about 46" x 61". (The point to this being that no matter what width fabric I'm working with, I can spread it out to its full width across the table in at least one direction.) The normal table surface would be laminate or some other hard surface (good for pinning), but there would be a removable 'leaf' (for lack of a better word) that would cover the table top that would be padded and covered with fabric (good for pressing). The base to the table would be just a few inches shy of the dimensions of the top on all sides. This would allow me to get up close to the edge of the table without bumping my knees against it. There would be removable 'buckets' of a sort that could hang from the underside of the table ends (as wide as the table) to catch excess fabric draped off the end of the table when working with large yardages. (This would keep the fabric off the floor.) The table base would be filled with drawers, shelves, slots, and cubbies sized to hold a variety of interfacings, other fusibles, drafting paper, tools, notions, etc. as well as the hanging buckets when not in use. It would be nice to have at least one, if not several, electrical outlets built into the table. Jessica Clark SCA: Irene leNoir Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 18:44:21 EST From: To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu Subject: Re: Sewing tables domino7 at texas.net writes: << I would like to build a sewing table for my wife and I to use. Any suggestions from those who have made them? Materials? Dimensions? Dos and don'ts? Etc? >> I've never made one. . .but I do remember the one my mother used to have. For a while my mother worked out of the house making curtains for a local furniture store. My father made her a sewing/layout table that was wonderful. It was waist high, around six feet long and four to five feet wide. He put heavy batting on the top, then covered it with canvas, so that you could pin into the table itself and hold a large project in place. It also had a shelf underneath. Now if you were looking at a table to put a sewing machine on, I don't that much about one of those. . . Noemi Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 11:44:19 -0800 From: Cynthia Konow / Thea Northernridge To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu Subject: Re: Sewing tables Greetings all....I really enjoyed having a tiled breakfast bar to use as a sewing/cutting table. It was the right height for cutting and the grout lines served me well as a guide to cut straight lines. Later, I purchased a 10' long kitchen counter and a couple of cabinets at a home supply store for use as a sewing counter in my sewing room. The counter was long enough to accomodate long garments (ie on gowns) so that I wasn't trying to sew on something that was doing its best to pull away towards the floor. It is also very stable. Hope that helps...Thea Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:16:45 -0600 From: Jenn/Yana To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu Subject: Re: Sewing tables Try here, good information on building a cutting table (well, that's what we called them in the costume shop). --Yana Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 01:45:54 -0600 From: "j'lynn yeates" To: Subject: sewing table plans some commercial sewing furniture related patterns ... located during a recent search for the GF ... 'wolf a folding sewing table .... http://www.u-bild.com/woodworking-plans/385.htm sewing tables and cabinets ... http://www.u-bild.com/woodworking-plans/887.htm http://www.u-bild.com/woodworking-plans/368.htm Edited by Mark S. Harris sewing-tables-msg 4