Setting the Table for Helmi
A very dear friend,
Helmi Flick, will soon be flying in from Texas to visit for a week of hard core designing, cutting, piecing, quilting and overall FUN. I found a great article about this lovely, talented, creative lady
here.
Fortunately, my studio is spacious enough to accommodate both of us "working" at the same time, but until now I've only had a sewing space set up for me. Also my cutting mats had definitely seen better days and were wrecking havoc with my rotary cutting blades. I was totally thrilled to find 36" x 48" cutting mats from a rather
local vendor of a wide variety of cutting mats. This Etsy shop owner,
Theresa Torres, is the very best to work with. I ordered four 36" x 48" mats one day and two days later the mats were at my doorstep. Ya' gotta love such great customer service.
I set about clearing the two worktables and immediately placed my new mats. Then I whipped out a second sewing machine and set it on the table that I was going to call "Helmi's Table". Since we are going to be working on a LARGE quilted project, Helmi is going to need an extension for the machine I have set up for her
I use 2" insulation board for a variety of things and have couple of small pieces that are left over from previous projects. I used one of these to make the extension.
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| 2" Insulation Board |
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Here is the way I played McGuyver to make the extension materialize.
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| I measured the arm of the sewing machine |
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| I cut opening in insulation board to accommodate sewing machine arm |
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| I placed and glued cut blocks of insulation board for risers near opening |
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| I cut and glued more insulation board blocks for additional supporting risers |
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| Front view of installed extension |
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| Back view of installed extension |
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| One long view of the extension |
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| Another long view of the extension and new cutting mats |
Always remember, never fear to experiment.
Sometimes wonderful things happen.
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