Necessity is …

IMG_2525I have a sad story with a happy ending, so let’s get to it. I have a very nice sewing cabinet, made by Tracey’s Tables. It has left-side and back extensions that go up when I want to work on a large, flat surface, and there’s also a “corner” extension that flips back to fill in between the left side and the back — it’s wonderful for supporting a quilt. Still, my sewing room is small, so I can’t leave those extensions up all the time. When I’m embroidering, I move my Bernina 780 away from the movable platform it’s on for normal work and onto the part of the cabinet right over the drawers. Then I have to put up the left extension for the embroidery module to sit on, which necessitates opening that corner extension in order to avoid a change in height between the module and the machine. Clear as mud? This has worked well for me for the past few years — no problems at all until a couple of days ago.

I’d swung the corner extension up and out of the way so I could get to the ironing board to fuse some stabilizer to fabric. This has also always worked — until now. Somehow, I must have jostled the cabinet, and the corner extension slammed into the “down” position — hard. That dislodged the hinges quite a bit and left the extension angled slightly down. Yikes!

IMG_1324But my husband came to my rescue, thank goodness. He fixed the hinges and remounted them, but then he went further and made me a removable support for the extension so that there wouldn’t be such a strain on those hinges. It’s not beautiful, but it really does the job! It’s all made from PVC piping and connectors and can easily be stored in a closet when I don’t need it. Yay! I’d really thought I’d lost that corner piece forever!

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