THE WAY WE WERE......LOOKING BACK IS FUN
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Melissa! I forgot about that one! Classic!
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Remember when sewing was thrifty? I was just looking on a website that carries lots of old fashioned and fancy fabrics-Liberty of London & Swiss lawns are $45 dollars a yard(!!!)
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Melissa, you're sister is too cute!!
They sell them on a site that rhymes with T-say.
Not sure if it's against the rules to say the site. LOL
I loved those lunch boxes.
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MelissaDallas - I made some of my own clothes in high school because it was so much cheaper! I made a gorgeous hot-pink dress with a low cut neckline for our Senior Dinner. I saved a fortune on that dress by making it instead of buying it.
Today I could probably get it at Walmart for $15. The fabric alone would cost me three or four times that!
When I took up quilting, I had no idea I'd go broke doing it. No wonder our grandmas cut up old clothing and made patchwork quilts, and instead of expensive batting, used worn-out blankets.
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My grandmother had one of these....I use to try to use it.........
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Ducky!!! We had my Nana's old Singer treadle sewing machine on our covered back porch the entire time I was growing up. I used to love to "sew" on paper grocery bags, with no thread. It made perforated lines I could tear apart. (I was easily amused......)
Then one day my aunt decided the machine belonged to her..... and POOF it was gone.
Sure wish I still had it today!
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I know Blessings! I'm guessing I'm spending at least $150 to $200 on a full-size quilt. I made a lot of my (very cute) clothes as a teenager as well. Made a grecian style Vogue dress for a 9th or 10th grade dance.
Slowdeepbreaths, my sister is indeed a hoot, but I think she was kidding. She was joking this morning about filing an ACLU discrimination complaint on people who don't open their garage sales before seven a.m. so she can go before work on Friday. Says it affects her income;)
Ducky, a lot of quilters love and use the old Singer machines. They may just do straight stitch, but they do it exceptionally well. Lots of them have big harps which makes quilting easier. They are also simple to work on and maintain yourself. My local quilt shop has a Featherweight club that is very active.
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My grandmother had that exact sewing machine. My mother now has it, as my grandmother has long passed away. I told my mom that it is something I would like to have when the time comes to pass it along again (Hoping that won't be for a while yet!).
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Melissa, that's too funny. I'm really liking your sister...love a great sense of humor!
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My aunt had that Singer machine and my stupid uncle (hated her husband!) sold it after she passed away. It was my grandmother's machine and I would have loved to have it. Someone paid him a lot of money for that thing cause it looked brand new even though my aunt used it quite a bit. Wow, that brought back a flood of memories of my aunt. She died in 1980...
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april, how very rude of him!
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Thanks slow...he was a jerk! They were only married for a short time and he got everything cause she did not have a will. He then warehoused their son (he had Down's syndrome) in a group home in FL (all of his relatives live in CT!!) and moved home to Greece where he was from. My aunt never wanted her son in a facility like that. He was her whole world!
My cousin ended up dying just a couple of years later from congestive heart failure (or a broken heart if you ask me) and so I am kind of bitter about that SOB. My dad tried really hard to get custody of him so we could take him, but my uncle would not come home to sign the paperwork.
Whew! Thanks for letting me vent! Felt knod of good to get that off my chest.
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That's horrible April.
I hope Karma comes back to bite him in the butt.
What an ass!!
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april485 - I'm so sorry. What a evil thing to do. But Slow is right. Karma's a bitch!
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Remember these.......loved them....
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ducky - Wax lips! (And candy cigarettes...) I loved those things!
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AZ....i use to eat them by the box full.............LOL.....
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I still have some of this stuff.......that is probably how we all got cancer......ever open one of those up and smell the chemicals........LOL......when I give someone left overs I say......keep the container or throw it out...I don't want it back............
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I remember those wax lips and candy cigs!
I remember the Tupperware lady too!
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I'm still using my Canisters.
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Everyone had to have a least one of these styles.LMAO...........
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Chairs - tick had them.
Tupperware - tick oh dear still have quite a lot.
And I learnt to sew on a treadle Singer sewing machine which my grandmother had used as a tailoress.
Have been meaning to post this for ages
Not sure who these people are!!!! Gee that was 42 tears ago.
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Remember this book......it was my first.........LOL....See Dick.....See Jane........See Dick Run, See Jane Run.........LMAO..........OMG...I hated that book...........
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My mom got her Singer featherweight in 1936 when she got married. It was electric, not treadle. She sewed all our clothes, all six of us. Often matching. Matching shirts for brother & dad. I never had a store bought dress until high school. She kept sewing all her life; the last dress she made was my wedding dress (actually for our 10th anniversary renewal of vows, since we were married by a jp) in 1987, from a length of eyelet silk my father brought from China in 1948. She actually made the pattern from pieces of other patterns, and made up what was missing with newspaper. Best seamstress ever.
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Thanks AZ...made me LOL!
Ahhh, wax lips, candy cigs and tupperware! Holy toledo I am getting up there. That wedding was almost around the same time as my first one (my starter hubby...ha! was married to that man for 27 looooong years so not exactly a starter..lol) which was 1975
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We were married 1972. A friend still has the pattern which my dress was adapted from.
These were the books I learnt to read.
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