You can buy ready made or ready-to-assemble sewing furniture at Amazon.com or your local furniture store, but there’s something special about a piece that you made yourself.

That doesn’t mean you have to start at the designing board, though: take on the expertise from other furniture designers and you’ll be standing on the shoulders of giants, as the old saying goes. There’s nothing like the internet to help you find sewing furniture plans that will give you the wherewithal to succeed.

Following a plan doesn’t mean that you can’t put in your own variations—in fact, that is the beauty of making your own furniture; you can customize every piece however you like. But sewing furniture plans give you a starting point for a well-designed piece of furniture that does what it’s meant to, and if you are a beginning woodworker you may want to keep close to your instructions sheet for the most part.

Quality Sewing Furniture Plans You Can Find Online

 

WoodWorker’s Workshop Woodworking Plan for a Sewing Center Cabinet is a very nice set of instructions geared toward the intermediate or beginner woodworker. The finished product is a Shaker-style sewing cabinet with a mechanical lift, lots of drawer storage, and a sizable amount of workspace. It’s practical, functional, comfortable to work at and nice to look at. Closed, the cabinet measures a tidy 48 by 18 inches and stands 27 inches high.

What do you need to make this table? While a list of required materials and tools is part of the plan, those tools will include a tablesaw, a bandsaw, a drill, clamps, a router, and a table mounted router.

The directions include detailed, step by step instructions or walk-throughs for every part of the sewing table construction, from preparation of the wood pieces through to their assembly. Choose your favorite wood to build this in; it’ll be a piece of furniture that reflects you and your creativity.

 

 

 

 

If you’d like to make a slightly smaller cabinet in a more modern style, you may be interested in U-Bild’s Sewing Cabinet Project Plan. When closed, this cabinet is 36 by 20 inches, and it includes a cabinet with two drawers and a lower shelf for machine storage. The door on the other side opens to hold up the extension leaf also contains a special organizer for all your sewing yarns as well.

One nice thing about the U-Bild plan is that it offers full-sized traceable patterns, as well as the standard detailed, step-by-step instructions that will help you create this furniture at home. In-progress pictures allow you to check your own progress, giving you confidence as you proceed—or calling you up short to change something before it gets too late in the game.

Whether or not the directions are more straightforward than that of the Woodworker’s Workshop table, this is a simpler plan than the other: no mechanical lift here; the sewing machine gets picked up from its cabinet and put in place. There are also fewer drawers and less storage space. It does roll on casters; a nice convenience if the location of your sewing corner tends to change with the passing seasons—or days.

Have fun crafting your own personal workspace; a sewing table you can be justly proud of.