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Article: Toy sewing machines recall proud traditions
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 4, 1989
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Lois Dixon began to sew when she was 9 - "as soon as my legs
were long enough for my feet to reach the sewing machine treadle,"
she says.
She learned to make her own clothes, worked 4-H sewing projects
in high school, majored in home economics at the University of
Kentucky at Lexington, and taught home economics in three states.
Now, since her recent early retirement, she is still sewing and
loving every minute of it.
No wonder Dixon, as well as many other home economics teachers
and seamstresses, likes to collect toy sewing machines - especially
since they are made of the same materials and operate in the same
fashion as adult sewing machines. Doll collectors and working-toy ...