MY BIGGEST LITTLE TREASURE

Is it really Monday again!  We spent the weekend finishing  (nothing is ever finished right!) working on projects that have been going for way to long now!  I hope to be able to photograph and post some this week.  But in the mean time I wanted to share with you something very special to me...As you may have figured out by now I love to sew, and my Gramma taught me EVERYTHING I know about it.  She would come over and we would crawl around on the floor pinning drapes, bedding, pillows etc.. She would teach me little tricks like pulling threads to make the ends even, and how to ruffle fabric the old fashioned way.  Those are some of my most special memories, I sew with her old Singer machine, and I love it.  I love the sound it makes, and the smell of the old metal.  But before she was using that machine to make my Mother's wedding dress, my Christening gown, and my son's crib bedding, she had this little machine....

and when I say little... it is the size of a 5x7 picture!

This was her first sewing machine that she got as a little girl.  You turn the wheel with one hand to make the needle move up and down while guiding the fabric with the other hand...

It may be small, but it is one of my biggest treasures...

{jen}