QuiltnNan

I saw this on another quilting site. It seemed unusual to me to see the machines sold this way. But when you think about it, lots of things were sold by travelling salesmen...
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juliasb

Looking at this picture is like looking at the treadle in back of me in my sewing studio. Mine is a 1905 Singer treadle. The first thing that caught my eyes were the drawers. Singer changed the design of the drawers a few years later.

leonf

But this is also Austrailia. Singer didn't change everything at once all over the world. Thanks Nan.

dunster

The team of goats caught my eye!

My father, who was born in 1901, said that the traveling Singer salesman could make those machines dance. He didn't just demonstrate straight stitching; he made embroidery style pictures, all with a straight stitch machine. When he told me that I was really impressed, but now I guess the salesman was doing FMQ.

My dad lived in a rural part of Texas and saw an airplane before he saw his first automobile. It's remarkable how things have changed.

sak658

My Mom lived to be 91, and she went from wagon and her first airplane ride..I went with her..from Houston to Corpus Chirsti, Texas...she loved it..wanted to fly again, but my mom was a go getter..quilted since she got married at 17, and pieced quilts till she got dementia the last 2 years of her life...the last couple of years, she had to tie them, but hand quilted all she made before then..I have probably 40 or more of her quilts..use to quilt for people for $25 a quilt..back when I was growing up and I'm 76 now..and still piecing and quilting quilts...myself...love it..