How many of you learned to sew with a treadle machine?
#114
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I learned to sew on my mother's singer treadle machine 60 years ago. OMG how time flies! Graduated to a singer Feather Weight about one year later when mother took me to a beginning sewing class at the local Singer store the next year. I distinctly remember that the hardest part of the sewing class was to cut into that first piece of fabric and making sure I cut the points on the dress pattern. Sure wish I had both of those machines today.
#115
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Location: Maryville, Tennessee
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I learned on my grandmother's Singer treadle with the shuttle bobbin. It was 75 years old at the time, and well over a hundred by now. Now my cousin's daughter has it and would give it to me if I asked, although she uses it herself; prefers it over an electic. I don't have room for it and I love my featherweight, so I won't be asking her to give it to me.
#119
I taught myself how to sew on a treadle. My parents owned a dry cleaners in the 60's and I started working there when I was 8. The seamstress would cut off the legs of mens trousers to hem them and I'd take the excess and sew them together making little "bags" to hold keys, coins, etc.
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