Wringer washers, cardboard templates, irons on the stove and no water heater... threading needles for my great grandparents, stretching quilts on the frame in the living room, peeling apart cotton wadding to make the bats the right thickness, boiling starch and clothes in the icebox. The first time I was trusted to cut the templates out of cardboard and graduating to fabric, often made up from scraps left over from the clothes made for us all. If it was bigger than 3/4 inch it got pieced together to make a piece large enough to use. The wonderful memories!