Originally Posted by QuiltnNan
i remember sewing doll clothes in elementary school [50+ years ago]. my mother sewed all of our clothes and made all of the decorations around the house. i just grew up with the satisfaction of making things. i didn't learn to knit until junior high school and was an adult before learning to crochet. the kids were grown before i did cross stitch. my dad built things and fixed everything and we did the gardening as a family. so i had very talented/handy parents to learn from. i wouldn't change that for the world.
You wrote my story. Are we sisters or something? It has been 70 years of sewing for me. I first made doll clothes from scraps that mama gave me, I was enchanted by what she could do with the sewing machine. I remember hanging around as she created baby colthes on a treadle machine. She would entertain me with word games as she sewed. Wonderful memories. In her late life, she made quilts from scaps I gave her. We ( DH & I ) ran a contract sewing business and I would take her stacks of cutaways. She'd spend hours sorting and cutting and then creating more wonders to make me gasp with surprise. :) :)