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Quilting and Patchwork

June 26th, 2007

Memories of the Treadle Sewing Machine for Quilting

         Chloe, in her post, Tuning Up An Old Treadle Machine, at Tangled Thread, brought back memories of sewing and quilting with this machine in my childhood.
  Ah!  The old treadle sewing machine!  That’s what I learned to sew on.  My mother had one; my aunt and grandmother had one; my 4-H sewing leader, Aunt Mary, […]

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February 12th, 2007

Quilting & Sewing with a Treadle Machine

With our modern computerized sewing machines, some so automated they’ll sew without you touching them, many quilters may not realize that there once existed “people-powered” or non-electric sewing machines.  I learned to sew on a treadle machine, so called because there was a flat plate, about 12x 9-inches square under this machine on legs that […]

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