I attempted to learn to sew on my Grandma's treadle machine. She was always so concerned about me running it too fast and getting my fingers trapped under the needle!

I think I learned just by watching Gram, easier then the bike!

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My grandma taught me how to sew on a treadle machine.

I was six years old and I had to stand up to make it work. It required more coordination that most six year olds can muster but I was already embroidering and crocheting by that age. I made a lot of "Dawn" (six inch version of barbie) outfits on that wonderful machine. I loved that old Singer treadle... I'd give my right ovary for one now.

I did, I am 58 and my mother had her grandmother machine, I used to make clothing on it, now I only sew quilts. <G> But I learned to love sewing on it many many years ago. thanks for the memory.

Add me to the treadle club. I was in 4th grade and sewed large 4-patch quilt squares using my grandmother's machine which had become my mother's when gran died (before I was born). The Singer treadle was a wedding gift from my grandfather to my grandmother about 1916-17.

My mother used the treadle more than her electric machine. It still runs but my legs are too long for the treadle! Our 12-year old granddaughter has discoverd the joy of sewing (no thanks to me as she is living far from Wisconsin). Hoping I can someday pass this family treasure on to her and that she will appreciate it.

Learned on Mama's treadle hemming dish towels! My sisters did too but it "took" more with me. When we got a Singer Slant-o-matic 500, we thought we'd died and gone to heaven! Put those decorative stitches on every pillow case we could find! Both machines were work horses.
I grew up sewing in a team. All of us had specialties and it was true assembly line. It took forever to learn to sew alone!

I made a broomstick skirt (anyone remember those) on my grandmother's treadle machine out of feedsacks. My aunt raised turkeys so I had a lot of choice in fabrics. My other grandmother had her treadle electrified. When I was first married I used that electfried machine. it sewed great and used the long bobbin. I don't know why I didn't keep it. i guess I just wanted to be "up to date" at
that time

I did. Then, years later my dad turned it into an electric sewing machine. Wish I still had it.