Ohe more thing. I had forgoten about this until I read someone elses comment. Sometime during one summer in elementary school I took a summer sewing course at
Singer's. I remember there was this other girl with an unusual first name and she explained the reasoning for her name. Her parents took the first letter of her other
sibilings and created a name for her. I remember during the 1980's I saw her name on the roster of a big decorating/crafts magazine. Believe me no one in the
world would have a name like that! So maybe that sewing class
propelled her into a career when she grew up.

My mother was very relaxed about me sewing using her old singer. I was quite young. It had a knee pedal. My brother gave me a Terry Lee doll and I was off and running making probably the worst doll clothes ever. My mother never said anything negative. I was hooked. Most people hate mending or fixing something but I love it. People come to me with their mistakes. My greatest joy was teaching a summertime boarder who worked for us who went to Vassar on scolarship.
She begged me to teacher her how to sew. Thus she did allot of mending for the "rich girls." And she sewed dresses for their graduation ceremony called a Daisy Chain. She made enough money to go on an overseas vacation in 2000. When
I turned 50 my husband asked me what I wanted? I quickly replied, "A serger." He said, "what?" And I said come with me. I am now on my third serger. Love it and have done so many home dec. things etc. Still need a sewing machine and
hand sewing........ I am amazed at how many people were turned off my sewing with their 7th grade home ec. class.
What a wasted opportunity. I have my mothers hand sewn
samplers with every stitch imaginable. (b. 1904) And completed when she was 12. I can't imagine kids today doing such intricate work. I had a cub scout group once and taught them how to sew on buttons. I still have my son's sampler of buttons and intend to give it to his wife who can't sew on a button! I must have come from another world.

My brother gave me a Terry Lee doll when I was about ten years old. I remember being laid up with Mumps and making the most outlandish doll clothes. I was smitten.

The following summer I took a Singer Sewing Class and made a full skirt. One girl in the class had an unusual name and I have seen her listed in creative magazines in the credits. I never became famous but have had a lifetime of sewing experiences.

I am apalled that there are people who can't or won't sew
on a button.