Originally Posted by greenini

Janice, Ha-ha, it wasn't MY mother who made my baby clothes. One of my favorite mom stories was that she had pinned a dress to hem and then hung it in the closet and proceeded to forget she'd pinned it but not finished it. She wore it to a friend's funeral all pinned up :lol:

If my mother had had to take home ec she would have gotten a big fat F, I learned how to cook at about 10 yrs old out of self preservation so I could eat :shock:

And sewing...not her :!:

Originally Posted by deplaylady

Do they even do a lot with Home Ec in schools anymore? I mean the type like I remember, cooking, baking, sewing? In junior HS we had cooking and baking, and the sewing (made quite a few dresses), but but the time I got to HS it was an elective and part of the arts department. It was the era of the open-classroom idea (very short lived idea) where one huge room was broken up by partial walls, work desks and counters. one thing that stands out in my memory was a guy in Home Ec hemming at apron that looked up and laughed at me with my oxy-acetylene torch and goggles - I was in Jewelry and probably melting silver or gold at the time. My DDs both had some Home Ec, just a few weeks of each - they made a pie and for sewing got to pick from a set of kits. Not a lot of imagination there. We had to pick our patterns, materials, notions. My DM was totally down with this stuff, she was a GS leader and a 4H leader, I got to see girls come and sew before I knew how to sew. I'm the youngest girl - 3 older sisters, and at first what they had to sew their 4H projects on was a treadle machine - until the oldest got a portable Durkoff for graduation, and my mom liked so much that she bought one in a cabinet for herself. At one time we did have two treadles at my mom's house, my moms (a Singer) and my Aunts Iva's (a White)- after my mom died I'm not sure what happened to them.

Originally Posted by Crossstitcher

Here is a 1919 Red Eye we bought at an auction. I haven't cleaned her up yet but she sews a beautiful stitch top and bottom. Of all the treaddles I was able to take right off with her.

Originally Posted by nickylsf

Addendum: I went back and decided against this Singer. I started to wonder if it was really a Singer, as the decals on the bed looked good but there was no "Singer" decal at all on the arm.

Instead I came home with a very rough W&W head, cabinet and treadle. It is so cute I could not leave it there. It is a Model 8, from 1876. Looking at the manual on ISMACS it appears that my cabinet is missing the drawers.

Originally Posted by Crossstitcher

Everyone DH and I finally finished my sewing room. I have posted pictures here http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-1371-10.htm#3872992. Come and join me for some sewing and hot coffee or tea this winter.

Originally Posted by BoJangles

This machine does not drop it's feed dogs, at least I can't find a way to do it easily, or I would use it for machine quilting!

Nancy

Originally Posted by BoJangles

Miriam, no it does not sit in an oil bath - but I am not sure what you mean by that? It does look similar to the Consew on e-bay, but the top line is completely different. I can't wait to try the machine out, but I had to order the belt by the foot, as the standard belts are all 72"s and this machine needs a belt almost 75"s.

Nancy

Originally Posted by Weedwoman

OK folks, what is a Singer JC665653