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

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126. I spent one of my first paychecks on a Singer sewing machine

This was in the 1970s. I still have said machine and it still works very good. I've had it tuned up a few times and it has done lots of work over the past 40 years.

It is a Singer Stylist, one of the first "free arm" machines ever made.

It cost a lot of money at that time (close to $300.00!). I didn't realize what a mess I gotten myself into with said purchase as the place I bought if from threw in a lot of "extras" with their financing of 21%.

Once I realized this, I paid it off as soon as I could.

At that time a $300.00 machine was like buying a $1000.00 machine today.

The last thing I made was drapes for my home when we moved here as I had no money to buy some so I bought some huge tapestries and made drapes out of them and received many comments/compliments about them, like, "Where did you find these? They are great!". When I told admirers of these drapes that I made them with my own two hands and no pattern, they were shocked I tell you, shocked!

Sewing kept me busy as a teenager and kept me OUT of a lot of trouble in my day no doubt. My late father would always have a few bucks to give me if I told him I wanted to make a new dress, etc. for school.

to sewing for whatever reason!