Congrats! on your Treadle Sewing Machine. I love them, even though I haven't used mine in a while. I need to get the guy out to clean and adjust mine (he doesn't charge much of anything to do this). Mama used hers to make all my clothes when I was going to school (eons ago!). She would use the feed sacks that you could get back then. When I was in the sixth grade, she made me a dress which I thought was the prettiest I had ever had. Daddy would buy the feed for the chickens and other animals and Mama would pick out the color sack and try to get several the same pattern and color.