The past two weeks have been very, very hectic. Aside from an increase in the busy-ness of everyday life, I’ve been learning more about my Brother Quattro sewing/embroidery comb machine. This little sundress is the result of my first attempts at using a few of the amazing features. I’m just blown away with the impact of technology on today’s sewing machines.
Somewhere, I have a booklet printed in 1900 which celebrates the advances in Singer sewing machines up to 1900. In that little publication, it was stated that every advance possible had been included in the newest Singer sewing machine model. Again and again, it stressed that there were absolutely no more improvements possible! The machine stitched forward and backward and stitch length that could be adjusted. What more could sewing women want? The machine of 1900 was perfected.
They were wrong.
But first, here are the specs on the dress. The pattern is Martha Pullen’s Summer Separates.  Now that my granddaughter, Laurel, is 8, I am happy to have a pattern that reaches up into the big girl sizes. Continue reading
