If you sew, here's some sage advice from the 1949 Singer Sewing Manuel!

[madokie]

1. I love the sound of a sewing machine

Mother sewed all us kids shirts and blouses when we were kids. As good as any shirt I ever wore too, best I remember.
I remember after all of us were grown she won a new sewing machine, my younger sis still uses it as sewing is her past time and how she made money while going to college. Anyways mothers old sewing machine is still in the family just never used by anyone anymore. It was a Singer pedal that they converted sometime to electric. Early on she was using it with the pedal then the change came and mom was thrilled but never really got the hang of it as the control with the pedal was so much better.
Back in those days during the summer we'd pick black berries to sell for 2 cents a gallon. All of us kids would pick enough to buy us a new pair of jeans, sorry can't remember exactly what the jeans cost back then but if I remember it was less than a dollar including the tax. I could go on and on as I have a pretty good memory but I'll stop here, don't want to bore anyone more than I already do