Originally Posted by
Muv
Miriam - I think the men tend to fall in love with the machines first, and then they want to sew, whereas with us gals it is generally the other way round.
Speaking as a testosterone poisoned individual.... For me it was learning to hand sew in the Air Force, remembering fondly my grandmothers treadle (which ended up in a garbage dump.....grrrrrr whole nother story there...) and dating a woman who chose not to mock me for asking how to use the machine.
BUT, with that said. the Obsession began with the machines themselves,, oh the glorious little mechanisms.... yeah, machines first, then what you can do with them.
Steve