Cheekystitch

DIY Light Box on the Cheap

Speaking of ikea hacks, i found this DIY light box hack that Im totally going to do. If you read my blog you know I use a lot of Japanese sewing books, the issue is that they require that you trace the pattern you need. Because they put at least 5 patterns on one sheet tracing can be apain in the ass, heres where a light box can and will come on handy.

Baby changing table grows into light table.

Boris recycles his daughter’s old changing table into a lightbox. Love how it closes in a compact little thing.

“I made the Sniglar baby changing table into a light box. My wife, for a few years now, likes to practice sewing for our daughters. She buy a lot of books containing patterns she has to reproduce on white paper which she then uses to cut the fabric. It’s not easy to reproduce those patterns onto the paper.

As our youngest daughter is now two and a half years old, we do not need any more our Sniglar changing table, and I decided to transform it into a light table for my wife. I first thought to keep the table structure as it, but finally, I prefered to use the two level of the table to make one foldable table. I first fixed together the two vat with a long piano hinge. Then I stuck aluminium foil into the vats to reflect the light and I fixed four neon tubes into it. A few meters of cable later, I then closed the vats with two white and opaque plexiglass panels and that’s it.”

Via: Ikeahacker

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