Summer Wear

Going Retro........

Don't you just love these?!!!

I don't remember a time when I wasn't interested in sewing. Mother had an old tredle sewing macine that belonged to Grandma Nieland. I had no idea Mother knew how to use it until I came home from school one day when I was 10 and she'd made herself some maternity clothes. WOW!

Around the same time that one day I came home from school and she had loaves of bread and pans of cinnamon rolls cooling on the kitchen table. I had no idea she could bake! She explained that she'd always done the family's baking in Alaska.... bread and such didn't come from a store. I just had never had any idea!

As for the sewing machine, I'd pushed that pedal trying to put things together, to be creative so many time but I had no clue.... Then, finally, I got a sewing machine when I was 13 and sewed many a mile on it. Igot me a new one in '76. I loved it... Then, Somehow, a year or so ago I managed to accumulate two more sewing machines. Well, I gave ole '76 away and another of the three and kept one that was fancier than the '76 model. When I went to use it one day, IT DIDN'T WORK! Fixing it was just too much to spend on it. So I've been moaning and groaning for quite awhile about no sewing machine..... It's tough, tho'! I don't know how people who don't own one get along! I mean, even if you don't want to MAKE something.... seems like very time I turn around I need to sew on something!

Well, this is what Iggie has in mind......

Iggie has a machine. One of those plastic ones for under $100. you can get at Wal-Mart. YUK! I tried it an it was awful!
I want a nice, heavy, metal body like from sometime last century! I have my eye on one on ebay. I keep looking on craigslist but, no luck! I'm getting desperate now......
Anyway...Seems to me fashion lost a lot of it's femine flair after the early '60's.... Iggie's into retro. She wants a Sock hop party for her sweet 16. And wants the full skirt dresses for the summer . The 1950's clothes had a special charm....

I have some patterns I've found on ebay, like these. And, she likes like some of the '70 fashions.... I even have some patterns of my own from back then that I'll have to dig out so see how they'll do for her......