I realise now that I was quite an efficient dressmaker in my teens and twenties. My mum showed me how to work her Singer - same model as yours, janea. I remember a princess line blue dress with about eight gores which I managed somehow to put together without help, when I was 16. Thought I was the bees knees. The bridesmaids' dresses which mum and I made for sister's wedding were another triumph - ripple satin and fully lined. Not much nowadays. I got out of the habit when the boys were small. Maybe I'd have found it easier if I'd had daughters!
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