We really didn’t have space for two bulky old sewing machines – let alone three! I’ve had my other grandmother’s machine – that I can actually sew with – for the last 20 years. This is part of the reason we’ve embarked on our big Budget Basement Makeover. We don’t live in a large house and every square inch is pretty much spoken for. I had purchased one of my own from an antique shop many years ago. But this caused a problem: I now had two. When my grandparents passed away – my aunts and uncles gave me the treadle machine. It’s an 80’s parenting miracle that we still have all our fingers. (We’d keep doing this until the grown-ups would pause their euchre game long enough to notice and scold us to stop.) Then we’d yank our hands away and dizzily watch the wheel spin and the treadle pump. My cousin and I would take turns pumping it with all our kid mite to see just how fast we could get it going. It sat in her kitchen – the top holding dusty shoeboxes full of odd things and old newspapers – but the top was not what drew me to it. ![]() As a little girl, I was fascinated with my grandmother’s antique Singer sewing machine base treadle.
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