Rothwell even organized several Saturday sewing classes last year for Elowen and three of her school friends, teaching the girls to sew on two vintage Singers.
In the process, she developed a passion for sewing that today she is handing down to her daughter, Elowen, 12. She honed her seamstress skills on her mother’s 1950 Singer Featherweight machine, sewing projects for 4-H Club and beginning to fashion her own unique style. “Every summer, I’d go and stay with my grandmother in Portland, Ore., for three or four weeks, and we would work on sewing projects together,” recalls Rothwell, 57, of Seattle, who was about 10 when she first operated the electric machine, controlling the stitching speed with a knee lever. Some of Victoria Rothwell’s fondest childhood memories are of sitting beside her grandmother in front of a Singer sewing machine and learning to stitch together scraps of fabric to make clothes for her dolls.
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