As a 'seasoned' quilter who can't pin sandwiches

[Lynn K.]

I lifted muy dining table with risers and created a PERFECT height for pinning my sandwich together! I'm in heaven!! Sorry they came up sideways.

[Carol G.]

Good thinking!

[Pat L.]

Great Idea! Thanks! Pat

[Nancy R.]

Very nice! I've started using a couple of the folding tables with adjustable legs that you can get at Walmart. I use two tables so that the folds mark the center in one direction and the crease between the tables marks the other. I use a doctor's chair to wheel around while doing the pinning. This has been a lot easier on my back than the old floor method! And I can do it out on the deck when the weather cooperates.

[Hannelore N.]

I stay behind after school and use the big tables in one of the science labs. No idea what I'm going to do after I retire.

[Hannelore N.]

Lorchen, I am sure you will find a way to pin your quilt sandwiches. Margarita

[Norma H.]

I stay behind after school and use the big tables in one of the science labs. No idea what I'm going to do after I retire.

You can come over and use mine :lol:

[Hannelore N.]

Loooove that offer, Norma! Once both granddaughters are in school I may take you up on it. Right now it would just take a little too long to get to your place!

But I have a post-retirement plan: I know a vicar who is in charge of a very large church hall. I bet he'll let me sneak in there occasionally with a quilt top or two.

[Rita C.]

Maybe you should convince him that he needs a design wall too Lorchen. :lol: I was just spray basting a quilt sandwich on my dining table this evening and thinking what a back-breaking job it is basting a quilt. Love the idea of those risers but I have not seen them here, I must look out for them, thanks Lynn.

[Renata L.]

Rita, if you can't find risers there, but know a woodworker, see how to make wooden risers at http://www.ehow.com/how_7283690_make...ed-risers.html. Shouldn't be terrible expensive to have made. You can put some felt or rubber gripping material on the bottom in order not to scuff your floors. Hope this helps

[Kathryn S.]

I use a cutting table from JoAnn's, it's at least 15 years old. Both leaves fold down if you need to have more room. when I want to pin a quilt, I fold both leaves up and move it to the middle of the room. It's 36 wide by 60 long, if i baste a bigger quilt I start in the center and move it around after the center's pinned. the table is a little creaky but it works. I have not tried the floor, probably i would need to call the paramedics afterward to get me off the floor! I can only envy people who can get down on the floor and back up again Kathy

[Judy B.]

I made risers by pouring Plaster of Paris into juice cans. If I were to do it again, I'd
partially fill the cans with foam packing peanuts first so they'd be lighter.

[Susan B.]

I use bricks under a conference table. Haven't banged my toes yet.

[Susan B.]

I got some plastic drainpipe that slots over the legs of my table and then put some blocks of 2"x2" in the bottom of the drainpipe to raise the table up. Since this is permanently in place I don't need to worry about moving it and it is very stable.

[Hannelore N.]

You need a table to be higher, Rosemary??? I would have expected you to have to saw off a couple of inches because you are such a cute little lady!