Dee's Chapter
Mom’s Sewing and a Sewing Machine’s Second Life
told by Delores Ann Guild Comstock
Mom sewed the girls’ school and Sunday school dresses, full circle skirts, shorts, and halter tops for Camp Shebonie, as well as sewing for the McFarlands. Virginia did Mom’s ironing while she sewed. Delores recalls Mom’s ease and speed at the pedal machine and humorously suggests it helped keep her legs and ankles trim. After Mom replaced her White sewing machine with an electric one and discarded it, Mrs. Poston rescued it and turned it into a marble-topped table for her restaurant, The Hasty Tasty, where the narrator says it remained at the time of telling.
In the family's own words
Mom also did all of the sewing. She sewed all of the school dresses and Sunday school dresses, full circle skirts and shorts for us girls. Do you remember the halter tops Mom made us girls for Camp Shebonie? She sewed a lot for the McFarlands, too. While Mom was doing her sewing, Virginia would do Mom’s ironing. I feel Mom enjoyed sewing. She did it with such ease. I was always amazed at how fast she could pedal on the sewing machine. Maybe that is how Mom kept her terrific looking legs and skinny ankles. After Mom got her new electric sewing machine she threw her old White sewing machine out in the garbage. Our next door neighbor at the time, Mrs. Poston, took the sewing machine from the garbage and made it into a table with a marble top. She put it in her restaurant, The Hasty Tasty, and there Mom’s sewing machine stands to this day.
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