I learned on Mum's Treadle, I was 5 because my brother Michael was
crawling
when he caused the needle to go through my thumb and he drowned 2 weeks
after I turned 6 at 14 months.
That must have been terribly sad.
How did you learnt to use a treadle at 5? My legs were nowhere near long
My mother's Singer had a buttonhole attachment. She got the machine for a
wedding present in 1953. I used the same buttonhole attachment on my Singer
25 years later, and now it is used on my Elna Carina, which has the cams.
As Australia's power is different, I passed the machine to my mom,
In a message dated 03/07/2006 02:48:55 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Buttonholes were made by hand too. - No Buttonhole attachments in them
thare days! :)) - and the hand made buttonholes are STILL better than
the machine made ones!!! :))
This one I would
Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Sewing Machines
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:29:55 +1000
My mother's Singer had a buttonhole attachment. She got the machine for a
wedding present in 1953. I used the same buttonhole attachment on my
Singer 25 years later, and now
I'm with you on this one, Tamara. My mother was a dressmaker and tailoress
by trade, too and she did all her sewing on a plain singer treadle machine.
When she went out to West Africa during the war as my Father worked out
there (with 5 year old me in tow!) she swapped her treadle with her
I have my Grandmother's Seamstress sewing machine. She was born in1868 and
the sales slip, which I have, is dated in 1890. This machine sewed my Mama's
clothes (she was born in 1907), my clothes (I was born in 1933) and my
daughter's clothes (she was born in 1961.) I whit was the only machine
--- Elizabeth Ligeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My 21st birthday gift was my own sewing machine - an
electric Husqvarna -
but still No embroidery stitches - and that was in
the late 1950's
- No Buttonhole attachments in them
thare days!
I learned to sew on my
