Cleaning shelves
recently at my Mother's house
In New Zealand
I found her Elna Sewing machine handbook
Bought before I was born
The sewing machine
produced most of the garments
we wore as children
until we learned to sew
and made our own
The sewing machine could even embroider
In a back pocket of the handbook
I found the original guarantee
from the Robertson reversible Sewing Machine Co
My mother's three girls
dressed in their beautiful dresses
But my favourite dress
was a red spotted summer number
with matching red piping,
hence the caption on the postcard above
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