Sort of retired from a 25+ year career in Telecom Marketing, I returned to some of my creative roots in art and sewing a few years back. I learned all the womanly arts as a young girl at the feet of my mother and grandmother - who never used an electric machine. I remember vividly helping her work (in her 80's) in the late 1960's on sewing work at her 1940's era treadle - which she called her "new" machine!
But after making those patchwork, bell botton draw string pants in 1976, I left sewing behind for almost 20 years!
Also a serious geek and sometime mechanic. I stumbled across a vintage treadle Singer model 15 a few years back and restored it to good running condition. That project sent me wandering into the world of vintage machine restoration and use, and more recently into modern machine play too, when I started working for a local Sewing Machine shop.

I raised my now 21 year old son in Houston, and caught the quilting bug in a big way too. Now I live back in Austin, my favorite place in the whole world (where son John was born, and spend every free moment in my sewing studio, where I have a full "cockpit" of sewing machines for work and play. I quilt with a 1927 Singer Model 31-15, and embroidery with my 2009 Topaz 30... along with a suite of other lovely old tools.

Threads is a great resource for keeping up with new tools, techniques, trends, and textiles. I'm glad to see them playing on the net, nice to provide this venue and opportunities to post.

craft interests: embroidery, fashion, gifts, quilting, sewing, vintage sewing machines!

Member Since: 03/26/2009