My sewing Machine & hand work.

I loved to sew my own clothes & those of my family. I also did a lot of knitting for myself & children and I even made a sports jacket for Max & also sewed Gary his first suit with pants and a matching jacket. Winter was times for knitting & making quilts. My mother & her mother as well as her 2 sisters were good seamstress, also did all kinds of hand work. Most women in those times made all their families clothes they made many articles by needle & thread on material they bought through the catalogue. My mother knit, crocheted & tatted
as well , made lace , which was used for dress incerts & to put on the pillow cases. I never learned the art of tating, but my sister Clara did. I inherited my mother tating shuttle which her father had hand made with his pen knife out of hard wood of that area. My nephew Murray Lincoln had learned this art from mother's sister aunt Clara, so I gave him my mother tatting shuttle, which he has made several pieces & also taught tatting in Regina University as it is getting to become a lost art.
Every winter I would make a quilt from the scrapes of materal that were left over from dress makingfor the family, nothing was wasted in those days. I even have several quilts with me here in the lodge. I made quilts for all my children & some of the grand children. Mother came to live with me for the last several years of her life, She had given me her treddle sewing machine which I believe she had sent to T Eaton catologe for. It was a tredal sewing machine & Max bought a small motor on it which worked really well.
In a few years went I went to Brandon to price or buy a new one. I bought one also entered
a sewing course which entered me into a contest where I was to sew a dress that I would enter in a canada wide contest as well.
I bought a dress pattern for a two piece summer suit of linen like cloth . I was to sewing it according to all the directions I had learned during this course. There were several ladies that entered. We took them into Brandon to be judged at Singer Store. I had to model mine. To my surprise I won first prize, a portable singer sewing machene. Then my dress was sent to the CNE fair in Ont. to be judged with ones from every provence in Canada. I did not win there .My dress was returned to me, which I had a lot of good wear. I still have that dress some where at my daughter Gail home at Millecent.
I had traded mother sewing machine on the new one I had bought but now I didn't need a second one. Max sister Clara had only been married a short time & she needed a sewing machine & I needed a electric stove for the summer months . Clara had a older model of a electric stove, so we just traded, her stove had 3 coiled burners on top & one in the oven.
I used to wish & had kept mother old treadle sewing machine as a antique but now this younger generation have no room for those old things, for they want all the latest enventions