I'm still working on the Singer sewing machine, trying to free up the darned stuck needle bar.  I SO much want to get a treadle table and try sewing with it!  I have a rebuilt Viking machine that Mom bought me 15+ years ago; it's an all-steel simple design that was used in a school in an earlier life.  It's tucked in the spare room closet behind countless boxes of teddy bears (one of our side businesses is buying and selling collectibe teddy bears.)  Our house is small and there just isn't room to set it up, not with all the bears.  I really want to start sewing again, and Mom offered me to use her Pfaff (it's probably 20 years old, one of the early computerized ones) but I just want to sew at home.

When I was a teen I started sewing stuffed animals. first using patterns and then creating my own.  In my 20's I moved on to sewing most of my own clothes.  Mom subscribed to Burda, a German sewing magazine that included a huge sheet of patterns in every issue.  She also went to a class put on by a company on advanced sewing techniques, and came home with the equipment and instructions on how to create simple shirts, dresses and slacks that were designed to a person's measurements; basically taylor's stuff.

Within a few years of getting married, I gave up the sewing and pretty much all the crafts I used to enjoy; probably around the time I discovered the Internet!!!  At any rate, when I read how excited people get over sewing or crocheting (never really took to knitting despite Mom's best intentions) or any of a number of handicrafts, I think to myself "yeah, I used to do that."  Well, darn it, it's time to start doing it again!  Being that I work from home, I have niches of time during the workday in which I can pick up a few minutes on a little project.  Like fixing this sewing machine...