Since you saw the frame and its prior condition, perhaps you've got a head start on how she used it and what to get if she wants to use it that way again.
The space it goes into as a work area is probably a great place to start. When we got a quilting machine and small table, the biggest part was the thousand micro-decisions what & how to let go of to make room. My wife expected it to be the machine, I expected it to be the table -- but it was the enormous weight of all the little choices on things already in the space.