FREE: Reprint of Tatting Pattern from 1942

My generation is one of the last to learn stuff like that. Most even in my generation didn't. When I was in college I was the only girl in my dorm who could sew. There were a few knitters and crocheters. When the girls went home for holidays they took two suitcases. One was to wear and one was for their moms to fix. They couldn't even sew a button on. One of the first things I had packed to go away hade been a small sewing kit. My senior year fashions said hemlines had to go up and I was shortening skirts for half the dorm. I had more clothes in my room than a department store. I also took up knitting that years. In my spare time!

In olden times women made all the clothes and knitted all the socks for the family. Girls were taught how to do them too. My mom taught me to embroider and crochet at age 7. We listened to radio shows and did needle work. By 8 I was sewing my own doll clothes on a treadle sewing machine after watching mom sew my dresses. My gram knitted mittens but didn't teach me. I taught myself in college. No I wasn't studying home ec. I taught two young kids in my family too Nancy.