I'm so glad to see that many of us went to the "school of hard knocks", sewing and knitting dolls clothes, sitting up all night stuffing pixie dolls with plastic faces so Mother could go to market to earn our bread and butter on her Singer treddle machine; sewing our clothing outfits before leaving convent school, on hand turning wheel machines; magazine patterns, books with paper piecing templates traced etc. Joined local sewing group for stretch sewing classes when single, double knit and fleecy fabrics arrived when overlockers came in - how things have improved since then with all mod gadgets. Learned hand embroidery in convent, worked with embroidering firm and helped sew church banners and tapestries etc. We had so much fun back then and learned everything we could as we went along. Second hand clothing fabrics were the way to go! I do like the age of technology and find Youtube a great source of knowledge to be gleaned yet still manage to buy books! Machines today cost more than what a car used to and we're still able to learn something new every day.