This weekend I cleaned out my grandmother's old treadle sewing machine.
The garret is getting a face lift. No longer is it a storage area & a couple of make shift rooms. Now it will be a light & bright get away.
And my grandmother's old Singer is gaining new prominence. Why not put it back in use?
Started thinking about all the sewing done on that machine .....all the memories.
It was a bit of a 'time capsule', too.
Old sewing notions & attachments:
--as well as a few miscellaneous things :
... marbles, a 'lucky' buckeye, an old house key & a broken arm from a ballet trophy --all with a story --all saved for some reason.
My grandmother, "Mom", was a quite an accomplished seamstress. My mother & aunt had beautifully detailed & fashionable clothes all during the Depression, even though they lived in a small rural Kentucky river town. Mom was a real whizz on that machine.
Though she didn't work at "the Eleanor Beard Studio", during the Depression, she did sew special projects for them. She sewed from home on her own machine. One was a beautiful white velvet ensemble they wanted to be especially careful of.
Years later she sewed dresses for me on that machine. I remember a purple dress with 10 pockets! I also had a little light blue dress with a white apron. On the apron were three dolls, (with covered button heads and rick-rack hair), and each doll was wearing a dress just like mine with their own aprons!
(Image source: Heavens to Betsy Vintage)
My how things change but still stay the same. My first project will be pillows made of bold Swedish prints from IKEA.
Much simpler sewing than Mom's,
... but the sewing goes on!
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