Oh love this painting and brings back memories of mum having the old treadle sewing machine..... I used to do a lot of sewing when I was a young wife and mother too..... from hemming flannelette sheeting for cots to making clothes for the kids..... I was actually quite an industrious housewife when a young teenage bride.... the philosophy was if not going out to earn money alongside your husband was at home saving money with baking and sewing and knitting....now though materials for this are expensive.... as baking has become a fashion mode and home sewing and knitting become handicrafts with this label seems to have put the material prices up.
