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In designing my new life, there had to be room for my sewing and art. I needed a table that could be kept neat plus a cabinet which was decorative as well as handy. Imagine my absolute delight when I discovered the Sauder Sewing Cabinet. My only concern was that it wasn’t white, but a rustic solid wood (and yes, it is a solid wood). Still I determined that if it didn’t quite fit in, I would paint it white.

It hasn’t come to that yet because the rustic is so elegantly quaint that I love it just as it is.

Putting It Together
Now normally, I struggle my butt off (well, not quite – butt still firmly in place) to put anything together, especially when things arrive and half the nails are missing and the instructions are written in double Dutch. So, I could tell you that in this instance I didn’t have a problem and it fit together well. But that wouldn’t be the truth. The truth is that my daughter put it together and she didn’t have a problem, and it fit together very well. It did require two people to hold it together at some points, and she did ask me to be that person. Her instructions were quite strict, I have to tell you, but I did get it right!

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The Design is Magic
If you note on the picture, it looks like an ordinary cabinet when it is closed. When you open it, there is one lot of shelves to put fabric, tools, paint, etc. while the right side opens with an attachment on the door to put in all the small little things like reels of cotton, scissors, thimbles, and all the razzmatazz that designers and seamstresses use. But the real magic of this sewing cabinet is that there is an extra panel which extends so far that two people can sew on it quite comfortably. Of course, that’s not why I like that extra panel. I just love it because I can lay out my pattern paraphernalia, my un-do tool, and my ever disappearing pair of scissors.

When one finishes whatever one is doing, one puts the sewing machine back in the place specially designed for it and put all the tools and fabrics back inside the cabinet, close it, and it just looks like a beautiful, elegantly designed cabinet.

Sewing Machine
Incidentally, I did buy a sewing machine with it as well – the pink one. It was a Brother and as my designer daughter used a Brother for sewing costumes, I decided that it must be a good machine. Actually, hers was blue so I think it was a different model. In any event, she’s had hers for five years and sewed everything from leather to satin on it. Her costumes have made their way onto the Internet and into the international magazine, Cosmode, but I would not have a happy daughter if I showed you the beautiful costumes she designed and sewed on her Brother Machine (the blue one). Anyway I bought the pink one.

It is now sitting in my lovely Sauder Sewing Cabinet and each time I look at it, I have such a lovely rich feeling of satisfaction. Also, it sews like a dream and I found it very easy to get into sewing again. I hadn’t sewn for about two decades when I bought it. Things come in cycles, don’t you think?

Anyway, here’s the sewing machine I bought. It's a Brother XL2610 Free-Arm Sewing Machine with 25 Built-In Stitches and 59 Stitch Functions. And, yes, I did have to look it up. I have to confess totally to buying it because I knew that Brother sewing machiens were reliable, were capable of doing the reasonably sophisticated jobs I wanted to do, and weren't to pricey. So, to me, the most important question after that was the color!

And here’s a blue one (probably she has an earlier version) similar to the one my daughter still uses.