Another Day to Celebrate

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Today is National Sewing Machine Day.  Well sort of!  It seems that July13 is also celebrated as National Sewing Machine Day.  Which ever day you choose, it's a day to remember the invention and patent of the sewing machine.

In the very early years of my parent's  life together, my dad entered a drawing for a sewing machine and won.  My mother had no experience sewing but quickly learned and began making clothes for me and my two sisters.  I learned how to sew on that same sewing machine.

The first year Michael and I were married, we bought a used Singer.  I loved that machine and made most of my clothes.  Michael even learned how to use it and made himself a shirt!  A few years later, I got a new Singer and I was in love!  It was at this time that I began sewing for my daughter.  What fun it was to make clothes for a little girly girl!  She loved twirly dresses and picking out patterns and fabric.

I wore out that machine and the next one was a Viking.  My first computerized sewing machine!  It made sewing a joy again.  Erin was in high school and I made many of her Prom and other school dance dresses.  I even got back into quilting because of that machine.   A few short years later, I traded it for my current Viking.  It was a special deal and I got one with more bells and whistles than I'll ever use but it is also an embroidery machine and that's why I wanted it. 

 

I can't imagine how women had the patience to sew every stitch by hand when making garments before the sewing machine was invented.  I know that what they did was done out of necessity, but I wonder it they ever wished there was an easier and quicker way to get the job done.  I wonder what they would think of the fancy schmancy computerized sewing machines of today.

Have a fantastic Friday!!!

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