Day 362 MarchDoodle machine

MarchDoodle

My CLmooc friends doodle everyday. Today I chose “machine” as a prompt from DoodleADay ElloLovey. See all the entries here: DoodleADayMarch.

It took me all day to come up with an idea for “machine.” Finally, I searched my “go-to” space for finding great photos: Flickr Commons.

I found a great image of a sketch of an old Singer sewing machine, which I used for my model for my “machine.”

I love the image because my first sewing machine — for sewing Girl Scout handkerchiefs and projects before I started sewing my own clothes– was a “pedal” sewing machine! My feet powered the machine! Like this one I just found on Flickr Commons.

And, of course, then my aunt Viola, who spoiled me and her sister, my mom, got us an Elna sewing machine — a portable, electric, Zig-Zag, desktop sewing machinge [picture here].

This is an older version, but a Creative Commons licensed one:

Image Source:

Treehill, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commonshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elna_no._1.jpg

That sewing machine served my needs from about age ten to age twenty-five! …. maybe I’ll find some old pictures of the dresses, skirts, and slacks that I sewed myself.

My favorite place to show was the fabric section at Lee Store at Arrowhead Shopping Center. [source page]. I would spend hours choosing fabric and patterns for my next project.

So today’s March Doodle was a walk down memory lane– I hope you enjoyed it.

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