{"id":1301,"date":"2012-03-09T07:23:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2012-03-09T07:23:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:23:13","slug":"ode-to-my-sewing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/09\/ode-to-my-sewing-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to My Sewing Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/101-sewing-machines.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1140\" title=\"101.sewing machines\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/101-sewing-machines.jpg?resize=590%2C147\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week I spent most of the week in my studio sewing.\u00a0 I have a couple of commissions that involve sewing the first being a processional banner for St Paul\u2019s Church in Burlingame.\u00a0 Part way into the week my beloved, and much abused, Bernina sewing machine stopped sewing.\u00a0 I have to admit that I work this dear old friend hard and rarely oil or service her and I have high expectations that she will never stop; this week she could go no more, so off to the repair shop she went (sewing machines are one of the few mechanical things you can get repaired anymore).\u00a0 I dropped my faithful friend off with my fingers crossed that I hadn\u2019t pushed her too hard this time.\u00a0 It got me reflecting on significant sewing machines in my life.\u00a0 Early on I was drawn to sewing, my mom always sewed for the family, especially special occasion dresses for my sister and I.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t long before I was sewing clothes for our tangle haired Barbies and other dolls.\u00a0 Somewhere along the way I was given a little kiddie hand crank sewing machine and away I went.\u00a0 My visions were bigger than that little machine and soon I was allowed to use my mom\u2019s mocha brown Singer (like the one pictured on the left).\u00a0 When you sew you have to learn the ins and outs of your machine; the bobbin, the threading, the tension, to know your machine, to deftly put in the bobbin and thread it up in a snap is a true bond.\u00a0 When I left home of course I couldn\u2019t take my mom\u2019s favorite friend, that mocha Singer is still the sewing machine she sews on.\u00a0 So when my grandma offered me a typewriter as a graduation gift as she had done for my two siblings I declined and had the audacity to ask for a sewing machine instead.\u00a0 She agreed and I was given my first full-fledged sewing machine.\u00a0 It was a 1980 Kenmore, I tried to find a photo on the Internet but these were not the sturdiest machines and I\u2019m not surprised no one is selling on one eBay.\u00a0 That Kenmore served me well but I dreamed of a German Bernina.\u00a0 At the time it was the premium of sewing machines sturdy and solid and full of stitches, just what a sewing machine should be.\u00a0 I bought this Bernina from a little old German man on Geary Street in San Francisco.\u00a0 It was the biggest purchase I have ever made. \u00a0Mr. Bernina let me make bimonthly payments and I would bring in my check every two weeks and give my machine a stroke, the salesman finally felt so sorry for me he let me take it home two payments early, I guess after so many weeks he decided I was good for it.\u00a0 That machine (the middle one pictured) has been my companion ever since, sewing not just cloth but cardboard and paper and anything else I could think of.\u00a0 While it was in the shop I borrowed my friend Stephanie\u2019s Bernina.\u00a0 This machine was given to Stephanie by my mother-in-law, right before she died.\u00a0 As I sewed on it this week, I felt I channeled Leonora in the whirly of the motor and the stepping of the stitches.\u00a0 It came to me that a great many church banners had been sewn by her on this machine, in fact the banners that grace the refectory here at The Bishop\u2019s Ranch were sewn on this machine as well.\u00a0 What a gift to revisit my dear friend and mother-in-law through the hum of her machine (on the right). 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