I remember sewing on my grandma Britton's treadle Machine too up stairs in her sewing room... We cut the pattern for the dress on the floor of the Bedroom... she helped me make 2 dresses I wore to school... the last year of highschool ( 1973) they let the boys in Home Ec... I still remember one group of guys made biscuits and used 1/4 CUP of Baking Powder... We called them Hockey Pucks they were so hard they didn't even break when dropped on the floor...