Extension table for sewing machines

The combination with a sewing machine of the portable type upstanding upon a base plate, of an extension table arrangement for enlarging the working area provided by an upper flat surface of a raised bed of the machine in which the bobbin mechanism is housed, said extension table arrangement comprising a table, a support structure for said table slidable along said base plate between storage and working positions of said table, and means pivotally mounting said table on said support structure for movement from a vertical storage position along one side of said machine for storage with said machine within a case, to its horizontal working position co-planar with the upper surface of the machine bed, said table having an elongated L-shaped configuration oriented such that when said table occupies its horizontal working position the short and long sides thereof respectively lie adjacent the end and one frontwall of the bed of the machine.