Portable Sewing Tables Make The Most of Limited Space

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Portable sewing tables have become much more common and more available as more manufacturers have entered the sewing furniture field. This is good news all the way around for the hobbyist and the serious seamstress. Unless sewing is your job, which you can do from your home, you have to fit your sewing into your life. While a beautiful antique sewing table can add beauty to your home, and functionality to your sewing space, too often space limitations interfere. A portable sewing table can be your answer and not as much trouble as you imagine.

Advantages Of A Portable Sewing Table

Portable sewing tables brings immediately to mind the portable furniture that has been sold in the past. You remember the metal wood-look shelves that managed to bend the second you put anything real on them. If these are your experiences with portable furniture you are in for a nice surprise with the portable sewing table. First of all, it really is portable and easy to move, as it comes with wheels. So when its folded up and stood on its end, where the wheels are, its easy to move. No lugging it or trying to walk it across the floor, with the wheels you just slide it where it needs to go. Its designed to stand on end or lie flat with a footprints which is incredibly small. Standing on end its only going to take up about six inches by 3 feet of floor space, the rest is going vertical. That means in can store in a closet on its end or store under a bed while lying flat.

The portable sewing table has another wonderful feature, it is designed with the inset space so that your sewing machine sits into the table leaving a nice flat surface to sew upon. This means that your arms and shoulders are in the correct ergonomic position to minimize physical stress from the sewing.

Did you try and use those metal shelves we talked about earlier, and discover that they bend if you place books on them. They were held together with these little clips that you couldn’t buy anywhere, and they folded under too much weight. Unfortunately, almost all weight was too much. This is not the case with a new portable sewing table, they are constructed from real heavy duty plastic tops and solid pipe metal folding legs. This is not going to crumple under normal use and most heavy-duty use. I assume if you intend to try and damage it severely it would be possible, it most usually is.

A portable sewing table is not too heavy to move easily. If you cannot have the table and sewing machine set up at all times, to take advantage of those free minutes, at least you are not in for a physically demanding ordeal to become ready. This weight issue has also become much more relevant in the last year as shipping costs have risen meteorically.

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Sewing Machine Furniture Designed for Correct Posture

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Sewing machine furniture is not built to the same height as the regular desks we use everyday. You may not think about that, but when you sew it become apparent if you use a normal desk. The table height you need to layout and pin a pattern is not a normal table height. What you need is sewing machine furniture to best function without causing you physical pain. Often sewing machine furniture is overlooked and completely misunderstood by those who don’t sew.

When you find that most of the people around you don’t sew, it can be very hard to explain to them how it can be physically demanding. To them you are just sitting at a desk hold some material while the machine sews it. They don’t see the preparation work and all the other physical labor. The layout of the pattern on the material is time consuming, on your feet work, but it can be much worse, because many tables are too low for long term comfort. The sewing machine sits too high or two low on the non-sewing machine furniture desk, and your neck or arms and shoulders hurt. This all makes sewing a depressing chore, when it should be a fun and enjoyable task making something beautiful.

Good equipment, such as sewing machine furniture, can and does make a difference in how your sewing feels to you. However, many of us don’t have a sewing room and so we are required to fit into an office or set up elsewhere in the home. It makes it difficult to layout your pattern, cut it out and place it on a flat surface while you assemble and sew it. This makes it necessary for some of the sewing machine furniture to be portable.

Portable Furniture Provides Help for Little Space

The portable sewing table can help remedy this, as not everyone has room to keep their sewing furniture assembled and in a room. Homes no longer come with a sewing room, because most people think its silly to sew what you can buy at a store. They have no concept of correctly fitting clothing, or a figure that doesn’t fit the normal body type. They have never seen the beauty of items that are sewn to fit you, in colors you choose and with your style. The portable sewing table is one that can easily be set up and taken down with little effort.

The portable sewing table can be stored with very little space footprint used, as it can fit under a bed, sit along a wall or stand up in a closet with very little space. A portable sewing machine table is a wonder of technology. In most homes space is at a premium, and there is little space to keep your sewing machine table and/or a portable sewing table up at all time. If you can easily move, assemble, take down the sewing furniture you can sew without some much frustration.

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