Sewing Machine Cut-Out

Here's my sewing table! It's great for piecing and quilting. None of the fabric hangs over and the insert pops out to change your bobbin or to use the free arm on the machine. If you're interested in making your own, I drew a template of my machine with the acrylic table from Nancy's Notions and my husband and I taped the template to the table and cut out the top of the table. Just make sure that you have avoided all the hardware for the legs below. If you have a different style table you can move the template more to the left, which would have been ideal, but this is the table I had. I measured the legs on the acrylic table and that's how we determined the depth of the board that holds the machine. It's flat with the table top and is wonderful to use. The velcro on the front of the table holds a couple of pockets for scissors and a seam ripper so that I always have them handy. I think the whole project cost $15 plus the table.