Mon Memory 125~ Antique Kenmore Sewing Machine

 

 My definitions:

 Antique-n., or adj.,  something made and used before I was a child.

Vintage- n., or adj.,  something made and used before my child was child.

 

Wonder what grandchildren stuff will be called?

A friend found out I was teaching a classroom of kids how to sew,

and was borrowing sewing machines.

Her Dad repaired sewing machines.

At one time he worked for Sears repairing sewing machines.

His eyes got to where he couldn't repair them.

He had collected a few machines and just couldn't bear to dump them.

He donated them to me.

This one needs to be in a museum somewhere.

I've never seen, or touched one this old.

Look at that bobbin.

The body looks and feels like cast iron.

It's not polished off like most antique machines.

Why didn't they continue to label the tension dial like this?

The stitch sample with it looked good, but I didn't have much luck.

Maybe I wasn't patient enough for it to struggle through?

This antique piece goes before my memory.

Don't have a clue what I'll end up doing with it.

Way to heavy to tote around. 

 

Fun Fri~ Ralph's Pretty Good Cars

 

Eminence, KY

 

We keep looking for roads in KY we haven't traveled.

On a Monday we wanted to check out a warehouse close to Smithfield, KY.

Of course we take the back roads and Eminence, KY was on our.

This place was suddenly there and I grabbed some drive by shots.

Meanwhile, my "Google Map" gave a dingle, and a bottom bar popped up wanted me to choose a car!

I just have to mention the place we stopped to eat.

Great country cooking!

 

Mon Memory 124~ A Book of My PBS Past

 

Mr. G and I took a little road trip and found a business selling some books for 1$ each.

I picked up this book thinking, "patterns."

 

Sure enough, when I opened the centerfold

there were patterns!

They looked to be the size of doll dresses,

so I looked no further.

However, when I got home,

I had a great memory discovery

of back in the days when I spent about 2 hours on Saturday mornings

watching our state PBS station, KET

when they broadcasted "Sewing with Nancy" and "Martha Pullen's Sewing Room"

along with "Georgia Bonesteel's Lap Quilting" and maybe Kaye Wood.

I was very pleasantly surprised when I opened to the title page and saw that 

Martha Pullen had auto graphed this book.

Great memories of this lady sharing "Heirloom" techniques 

using a sewing machine instead of hand sewing flooded my mind.

I also have a book autographed by Georgia Bonesteel I accidentally found a few years ago.

I couldn't have afforded either of these books back when they were first published,

nor been able to go to a book signing.

(Books weren't autographed then and sent out to various bookstores like today.)

Good memories of back in the day when I started learning all the tips

about sewing and quilting.