I´ve got quilt pox and I´m happy

I´ve realized I´d been affected by some sort of syndrome I couldn´t expain before reading Dena´s thorough explanation about its symptoms and causes. Thanks for that, Dena. (You´ve probably got it too, so you´d better read what Dena has to say about it)

I used my grandmother´s sewing machine since I was 8 or 9. She´d got it in order to sheath my mother´s diappers, back in the beginning of XIX Century. Wow! I was born in the Mid Century myself.  Double Wow!

I don´t remember having seen my grandmother sewing, except for showing me how to use the machine and helping me when I got it stuck. I used to produce my doll´s clothes or tried to. My mother was fond of knitting and crocheting but not of sewing.  So, I guess the machine has been destined to me the day my grandmother got pregnant.

I´ve had a few sewing machine over the years but I´ve got rid of them all, except the one my grandmother had kept. I was reluctant to make it go electrical/portable. Did so last year for lack of space reasons mostly. I soon realized I had made a mistake but then it was too late.

This is it, a victim of the seaside salty wind, the family´s poor sewing and the technician´s invasive and mutilating surgery.

I´ve had a few sewing machine over the years but I´ve got rid of them all, except this old one. I was reluctant to make it go electrical/portable. Finally did so last year for lack of space reasons mostly. I soon realized I had made a mistake but then it was too late.

I know it will always be usefull. One can relly on it. It goes straight and does it beautifully. It allows itself quite a bit of noise and I call it selfconficence.

Having been affected by the syndrome described by Dena, I decided to get a new, fancy machine, though.  Maybe not the state of art but a Singer as well, since I want them both to be friends, and I thought I should be able to get  technical assistance easy and as locally as around the corner, whenever it becomes necessary. Yeah, these new electronic babes are not like the old mechanical ones that never ever stopped.

Now, here my new acquisition. It´s nice, light, easy and doesn´t make noise.

One more reason why I should really learn to quilt.