Originally Posted by quilting.addict

My mother sent me to a Singer sewing class when I was ten. It cost her $1 per lesson, ten lessons. I have no memory of what model singer it was. When I was thirteen, my Dad bought me my first machine...a Chattauqua, with a shuttle bobbin. I have never run into another person who had owned or heard of this machine. In between my Singer classes and getting this machine, I hand sewed garments. Oh, how I love my Viking Fresia 415!!