My mother and grandma bought me a new sewing machine (brother) for my wedding shower, (I was 17) and my grandpa took an old cabinet and redid it to fit my new machine in it. That will be 33 years ago in June. I still have that machine. I did minor sewing at that time, some clothes...and mostly patching/repairing. Until our first baby came along a few years later, and he was a premmie..so it came in handy to make weeeee little clothes.