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I can put my hand up to having learned on a treadle machine. My Mum had one it was her 21st birthday present, well she was 93 when she died and thats some 4 years ago. I remember standing by the machine watching her sew my clothes and especially remember her doing one of those swimming costumes for me that was elasticated and went into little squares. Probably had a go on the machine when I was around 12, but I was always sewing something or another by hand before then. Fond memories
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I learned on my G'ma's old singer treadle. Use to make pre-tend stamps. Gosh that was many many years back.
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Originally Posted by Olivia's Grammy
Dad bought Mom a Treadle, don't know why bc she couldn't sew. I was about 8. I taught myself how to sew on it. It was the first sewing machine I'd ever seen. I could not figure out how to get the bobbin thread up from the bottom. After hours I managed to get it to the top I tied a knot in it so it would not go down that rabbit hole again. :roll:
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I first learned to sew on my mother's treadle machine, making doll clothes. Good memories!
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I learned to sew on my mother's Goodrich Treadle machine. The feed dogs did not work so you had to pull the fabric through at a steady pace to get even stitches. I now have the machine.
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I learned to sew on my grandmother's old Singer treadle machine. I always loved that machine, and my mother just couldn't understand why I liked it better than her new fancy electric model.
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I learned to sew on my mother's Featherweight (which I have now!) but when I met my husband (in 1975) I learned to sew on his mom's treadle (the only machine she ever had/used). She made beautiful quilts with it.
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Originally Posted by countrycottage
I learned to sew on my mother's first sewing machine, a refurbished Singer treadle. She told me that a salesman came around to their house with some sewing machines in the back of his pickup truck. Daddy traded him several gallons of syrup he had made for the machine. In the 1960s she bought a newer treadle machine from the high school when they upgraded to electric machines. Mother never had an electric machine. I still have the first machine, my sister has the second one, and both sew great!
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That is so painful just reading that. Can't you feel it hurting.
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I also learned on a treadle. I was a funny experience when I took home edu. in school. The first time I had tried to use an electric machine. My teacher said that it was not a race car. What a ball of thread I had.
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