Collecting My Thoughts

I learned to sew in 4-H in the 1950s (my teacher /group leader was Mrs. Bechtold and of course, Mom helped), and my children learned the bas...

What made saying good-bye to this dress so difficult is that my mother made it. She was only 43 and I was probably 15 when I checked on her ...

My mother (1912-2000) had this attitude about all housekeeping skills, and particularly was careful to look nice when Dad came home from w...

The original copyright for my Singer Sewing Book is 1953. It has similar pithy words of wisdom. "The psychiatrists say that ugly dress...

The clothing and hair shapes and styles of the late fifties were harbingers of the changes we would see in the early 60s--blousy and bouffan...

Sew Homemade When I was a little girl, my mother made a lot of my clothes--the rest were "hand-me-downs" from my two older sisters...

2957 High tech, high touch That's an old 80s expression for people who worked on computers all day then went home to eat tofu and qui...

204 Handicrafts some of us didn't do We had such a good time in writing class today at the Public Library "Writing family memories....