{"id":2618,"date":"2016-06-06T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2016-06-06T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:53:00","slug":"necessity-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/necessity-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Necessity is …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_2525\"<\/a>I have\u00a0a sad story with a happy ending, so let’s get to it. I have a very nice\u00a0sewing cabinet, made by\u00a0Tracey’s Tables<\/a>. 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\u00a0left side\u00a0and 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.<\/p>\n

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 —\u00a0hard<\/em>. That dislodged the hinges quite a bit and left the extension angled slightly down. Yikes!<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1324\"<\/a>But 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\u00a0there\u00a0wouldn’t\u00a0be\u00a0such 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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have\u00a0a sad story with a happy ending, so let’s get to it. I have a very nice\u00a0sewing cabinet, made by\u00a0Tracey’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\u00a0left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[202,193,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-2618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-bernina","9":"tag-embroidery","10":"tag-sewing-room","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1324.jpg?fit=480%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-Ge","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3014,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/koala-studio-cabinet\/","url_meta":{"origin":2618,"position":0},"title":"Koala Studio Cabinet","author":"Sandy","date":"May 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I've had a terrific sewing machine cabinet for many years, and it would have lasted me many more. 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