My Mum called me the other day - she asked if I could go over and thread the needle to her sewing machine as she couldn't see well enough to do it. This is Mum's 'modern' machine - she used to sew all our clothes when we were young on a Singer treadle machine like the one I bought last year. - and just to add some context to this; I have 4 sisters! Also, without patterns, just like she learned in Cyprus where she grew up. Don't you love the '70's floral decal on the machine. Notice on the instruction booklet "Now with NEW elastic stretch stitch"! It kept breaking the thread when Mum was trying to sew but she had the stitch length and tension set wrongly and the thread was probably 20 years old. I sewed up the curtains for her to save her the grief! It ran like a dream. While I was cleaning it up before I used it a younger sister said "are you cleaning it because you think you're going to get it???"... doh!.. n one
A record of my fabric and pattern collection (which I sometimes use) and what I do with any spare time I have.