Pinky57

My mother and my grandmother both sewed. My grandmother made pajamas for all the grandkids each Christmas (16 grand kids). My mother taught me to sew by hand at age 3 by 8 my grandmother taught me to not only use the sewing machine, but she taught me to make patterns using newspapers. My grandmother died when I was 12, but I still have some things from her sewing room, including a sewing book that was hers as a young child, it has her name scrawled in her childlike way. I went on to get a degree in fashion design. One of my favorite items though is a handmade "book" made out of homespun type fabric, each page holds samples of hand made lace either crocheted or tatted. The book belonged to my great grandmother. A few years back, at the young age of 78, my mother finally retired from doing alterations, and she has given me all her industrial equipment. Now I am opening my own sewing and alteration shop to carry on the tradition so ingrained in my heritage.