Category: Ergonomics
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Brian’s Pfancy Sewing & Quilting Table
I have to say, my jaw dropped at Brian’s adaptations to my “cheap (foam) custom table”. Here’s his story and it’s a great read! He’s a sewist, innovator, and great writer! Marguerita, Brian’s Pfancy Pfaff Pfewing Mapfhine Table I’m not really a quilter, but, when I bought a Pfaff Creative 3.0 and I wanted a…
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Marguerita’s Sewing Space 2021
I rearrange my spaces all the time, but in fifteen years I’ve never taken my foam away. I’ve changed a bit, cutting it, moving machines, and adding contact paper instead of heavy vinyl, but the basic blocks are still the same and I still love it so much that I won’t sew without it. You’ll…
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Edith’s Custom Quilting Table
Edith sent me a long note and several pics of her table – she’s thrilled! Here’s what she shared: I wanted to send you a thank you note. Recently I was all ready to buy a very expensive sewing table – it was 30% off, but still more than I wanted to pay!! Like $1600!!!…
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WillieMae’s Quilting Table Story
My favorite kind of email! Good morning, I want to thank you for your video and sharing with us how you made your table. I decided to make me one. I use a Pfaff machine and the machine sits on it’s own platform which sits on the table. After making the extended table it still…
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Gina’s New Quilting Table
I love stories about solving a problem based on my ideas and Gina sent me her wonderful creation and some super pics! Just thought I’d drop you a line and show you my very recent new sewing room I feel blessed to have. We recently moved from a 1 bedroom condo to a 2 bed…
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Nouli’s Table in Athens, Greece!
Quilters, I am always left speechless when I see how far my videos reach. I’ve received questions and comments from quilters in Australia, South America, the Middle East, and now Athens, Greece about my videos. I now have over 2 million views to my videos, and this one video has over 200,000. Unbelievable. Take a…
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Caroline Pope’s Table & Quilt
Another custom sewing table is created (read more here) and a quilt waiting to be finished. Here’s Caroline’s story: Hi Marguerita, I am a new machine quilter, this is my first machine quilt. I ambitiously went ahead and pieced together a full sized quilt, not even thinking about how to manage the quilt on my…
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Anissa’s Custom Quilting Table
Anissa found my Cheap Custom Sewing Table video on YouTube and watched it for a week before contacting me and asking about making her own. Then she sent me a pic with this note: Just saying hello again. I wanted to show you my quilting table I made, thanks to you 🙂 I will be…
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Nina’s Custom Sewing Table
Nina sent me her adaptation of my “Cheap Custom Sewing Table” along with this note: I recently saw your fantastic video on making your own sewing table. I was all set to do as you suggest, the sturdy insulation, etc., when I hit upon another idea. My son had a set of Enclycopedia Brittannica many…
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Sew & Quilt in Comfort
Introducing my newest book – a work of love! You may have read some of my posts, or seen the photos, of my “Custom Sewing Table”, which I’ve also called my “Cheap Sewing Table”, well, now it’s a book. The short backstory is that when our book proposal (Crazy Shortcut Quilts) was accepted in 2006,…