Placement of sewing machine

The classic response to this for a desk and typing is that your forearm
should be at a right angle (90 degrees) to your upper arm. That's easy
to do when you can sink your machine into the table. Not sure otherwise.

If the machine/desk/keyboard is too high, I get backaches around the
bottom of my shoulderblades.

WRT the needle/edge relationship, I was just thinking that the angle of
vision would be not so good if the chair were too low.

I've used swivel office-type chairs. The good news is that they can
always be swiveled to the right height. The bad news is that they tend
to swivel back down again as you use them...so all of a sudden I'll
realize that I'm feeling a little like Alice in Wonderland and need to
swivel the thing back up again.

--Heidi
Plattsburgh (UPstate) NY

http://community.webshots.com/user/rabbit2b

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lisa skeen wrote:
Well, there again, what is "high enough"? I can't figure out exactly
where the machine should be in relation to ME! ;0)

L
"hfw" wrote in message
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I've got a Viking and the Viking version of a Horn cabinet. The needle is
9" from the front. I really like having that space in front. For one
thing, I can use the Angler2 with it, which helps my piecing accuracy. I
think it's very important to have the chair at the right height (high
enough) and maybe even more important when there's more distance between
the edge and the needle.

--Heidi
Plattsburgh (UPstate) NY

http://community.webshots.com/user/rabbit2b

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Jane MacDonald wrote:

Glacier My husband is making me a sewing table, just a piece of
countertop with a hole cut out, in which to set the sewing machine. The
problem I have with my present cabinet is that I can't sit directly in
front of the needle, but have to "lean to the left" to sew. I also find
that the needle is too far away, 10.5 inches from the edge of the table.
With this new table I will be able to sit directly in front of the
machine, but I don't know how far from the edge it should be.
Tables such as the ones made by Horn appear to have the machine
closer to the edge. Can anyone tell me what works best for you? I was
thinking 4-6 inches from the edge of the table to the needle.
Opinions?

TIA,
Jane