A wonderful gift
05-14-2014, 08:56 AM
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I love that story! I once bought 2 machines for $10 - a 128 to convert into a hand crank and a 66 in a treadle base. I really didn't want the 66, but it was an all or nothing deal. When I was growing up we had two treadle machines, a White and a Singer 66. I have a White and so does one of my sisters. My older sister sews a lot and was wondering about the old treadle - what happened to it after my mom died. Well I thought maybe I would give her this one. When I looked up the serial number I found it was the month and year of my mom's birth. I guess it was meant to be, too.
05-14-2014, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by oldtnquiltinglady
Such a sweet story. I hope she learns how to use it and makes something kinda like her grandmas might have made. All our old folks are gone now, so I can't go to someone to learn a story behind something I find or think about anymore--I'm the "old folks" generation now. I hate that, because my memory isn't as good as my elders' was, or my storytelling abilities, or something. Different sisters and kinfolks have told me down through the years that I ought to write a book; but I didn't, and now I can't. Listen, or read up, you young people here.
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