Thank you all! I love the memories in this thread! I'm almost 47, so old enough, but I remember my mother at the sewing machine in my very early childhood (I'm the 6th of 7 kids!), she was pretty much done with it by the time I have real memory. I don't ever remember going to get fabric with her - she probably did that while I was in school. I wish my mom would have shared sewing with me back then. In a way, though she is responsible for my quilting. She kept her Kenmore sewing machine all those years, and not long before she passed she brought it to me. It sat for many years because I didn't know what to do with it, and one day I decided to make a quilt = the rest is "history."
Thanks so much again for sharing your memories, this is so fun!