05/10/2019
Happy early Mother’s Day to all the moms, daughters, aunts, sisters, and friends! We wanted to share this Sewtime post from a few Mother’s Days ago. Hope you have a fabulous day! Please note Sewtime will be closed on Sunday, but we will be open Saturday for last minute Mother’s day gifts and sewing fun! 💜
As Mother’s Day approaches this Sunday, I am thinking about how sewing has been such a special way for families and friends to connect. With over 45 years in a sewing business, I have many fond memories. However, my fondest sewing memory is sitting next to my dad, watching while he was repairing a Singer Factory machine 95-10. I must have been 8-years-old, and was amazed how this machine was creating stitches.
I have made drapes, curtains and so much in my lifetime. My love for sewing machines drove me to make it my lifetime passion. I took over the sewing machine repairs in 1975, and grew it into so much more. If you asked me as a little girl what I wanted to be when I grew up, it was a cowgirl in 1958. And here I am a lifetime later, surrounded by fabrics, notions and technology my dad never got to see.
And this is the funny part-my Mom raised five kids over my dad’s sewing machine shop on Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill, NY and she never liked to sew.
I think of my father’s customers walking into our shop, from all parts of the world. They told their stories of their love for sewing and designing, and I remember my father helping them find the machine of their dreams. I saw the world through my father's customer’s eyes and I still do in my own shop.
We would love to hear from our friends who love to sew-Tell us your favorite sewing memory! It keeps those we loved and lost over time, alive again, and gives us a chance to learn something new from one another.
