Another Desk to Sewing Table Transformation ---For My Friend Pattykins!

Santa Claus was extra special nice to my friend Patty this year. He brought her a Janome Memory Craft 6600 Professional sewing machine! She was so tickled, and we agreed she needed a nice table to recess it down into. I told her we would keep our eyes open for something at the thrift stores that would work, and Saturday, Louie and I  found just the thing. This desk was only $10.38, and a nice base to start converting the table. I guess I don’t have to tell you there will be lots of pictures.                                            Since my machine and hers are the same, Louie used the opening from my table to make the template for Patty’s.                       It took a couple passes, and a depth adjustment with the router bit to get all the way through the desk top….                                        …then a little more precision work to get the edges smooth.                                            We used an old cupboard door we had bought for another project, then never used from the Habitat for Humanity Restore for the machine to sit on.                       Louie used his antique planer to make the two by fours the right height and smooth. He loves this machine, but it sure does make a mess of things!                        The two boards he planed, are the ones on either side of the opening. (That’s the sawhorse you see running down the middle of the opening.) The other triangle shaped board you see was used as a spacer and stabilizer while he attached the boards to the underside of the desk top. He also put in a couple screws from the outside (on the right side in this picture, into the 2x4 for extra strength (minus the triangle shaped board, and a long narrow piece of wood between the 2x4 and the end piece).                              This is the bottom side of what the machine sits on, but when it lived it’s life as a cupboard door, of course, it was the front. (I’m still nuts all about reusing and repurposing!)                       Almost done! Just have to flip it over on it’s wheels!                                     It fits!  (Of course, I knew it would!) This makes the fourth recessed sewing table Louie has converted from a desk or craft table. He’s pretty good at it by now. (Yep, I’m bragging!)                        Next we checked to make sure the knee lift fit and moved freely.                        I gave Patty this chair, as it is just the right height. See the big cubbyhole to the left of the chair? That should make some nice storage! It is enclosed on the back, but in this photo, it doesn’t look like it is.                                            This should make a nice big work area for Patty to make her quilt tops and whatever else she feels like creating.                        Louie and I delivered the new sewing table right after it was finished. Patty’s son Ryan helped Louie take it in the house. Her machine is already in it, and Patty loved it, just like I knew she would. It feels so good when you do something for someone and you know they appreciate it. It makes all the difference in the world.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful week!

Be blessed,

Michelle