Letter of the week
Singer sisters
Sylvia Wigham [13 June letters] is certainly not the only owner of an ancient Singer hand-operated sewing machine! I acquired a Singer from a friend’s 90-year-old mother. I used it for many years and often did clothing alterations for my mother-in-law, thinking she didn’t have a machine herself. After she passed away we cleared her house and, to our surprise, found a Singer hiding away in the spare room. It seems she never used it. All the decorative gold scrolls
