One of the ghosts that haunted me while staying in gradma’s mostly emptied house over the holidays… The first sewing machine I used.
I have no recollection of what I was making when I first used this machine, but I remember right where it sat in the basement and recall the odd contortions I had to do to run the pedal and sew at the same time.
Comment by Chris
January 26, 2007 @ 10:25 am
That’s giving me a flashback to sewing horrible projects for 4-H as a child…
Comment by Cindy
January 26, 2007 @ 12:18 pm
Is this the machine you use or is it a memento? It’s of the era of Singers that were built to last. I had a Singer that was my Grandma’s old treadle machine converted into a portable. Thing still works. Now, I use a Janome (and I love it). Have a great weekend and hope all the pills Emma watched you take worked.
Comment by Rebekah
January 26, 2007 @ 2:10 pm
My niece now uses my grandmother’s engagement ring as her sewing machine. See my grandfather when he proposed to my grandmother asked her what she wanted a diamond ring or a sewing machine. She choose the sewing machine, she was a very practical lady (this was back in the late 30’s). At an auction last year that sewing machine was going to be sold out of the family for $5.00 I couldn’t have it, it’s a diamond ring worth far more then $5.00.
Comment by Stephanie
January 26, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
What a great set of pictures. Seeing that machine reminds me of being a kid and learning to sew.
Comment by Deborah Robson
January 26, 2007 @ 8:01 pm
Okay, to me that looks like a NEW sewing machine. Not the newest, but (1) it isn’t black and (2) it does more than GO FORWARD and GO BACKWARD. In fact, it looks a whole lot like the sewing machine my parents gave me when I left home.
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