Monday, November 30, 1925
Put in the day sewing. Cut out waists of the two remnants I got Friday and with the skirt Bess outgrew and gave me, I expect to have a decent costume for all the going I’ll do. Have so much sewing to do and the mending has stacked up till my sewing machine is snowed under.
(To clarify, a "waist" is a type of shirt, I think without shirttails to tuck in.
Bess, Grandma's sister in law, must have had trouble with her weight.
So much sewing. Grandma sewed most of what she and the boys wore, it seems.)
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My grandma Kitty also sewed most of what her 6 kids wore - my mom said that in the late twenties, Kitty could put newspaper on the floor, have my mom lie down on it, make some marks for a pattern and produce a coat when mom came from school. I guess all that practice really did make perfect!
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Annie, I too made most of my kids clothes, but I needed a real honest to goodness pattern. I've heard of people who could make something with just a minimal sketch and I admire that ability, which I didn't have.
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