Originally Posted by
KwiltyKahy
I have said for years "if our great-great-grandmothers had had sewing machines, they would have used them too."
One of the changes I have noticed in quilting over the years have to do with the magazines. Back in the day, magazines were about the block and the quilters. Now it seems they are about the fabric line. The designs aren't new just made up using a certain fabric line.
I think we might be surprised how long good sewing machines have been around. I grew up from my birth with an old WHITE treadle sewing machine and did not get an electric until I married in January 1962. My mother told me she bought the treadle just before I was born, and that it was used--more than 50 years old in 1939. Just now I looked up on Wikipedia to see when they were invented and this is what I found:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_machine