When Therese Stempin recalls how she first began sewing, she pauses and then from another room produces a small hard-sided case with a handle. Lifting the latches, she opens it to reveal a bright ...

This small dowel holds the thread. Some machines come with several spool pins for various types of thread spools and for decorative or twin-needle sewing. Spool pins can be horizontal or vertical ...

My sisters and I started out with small projects like aprons and dishtowels ... As a newlywed, my first sewing machine was a Singer with the most up-to-date features of the 1960s, a gift from ...