National Sewing Machine Day

Over the past several months sewing machines have been brought out of the closet and are being used more and more frequently as people are re-discovering the joy of fabric projects. And we’d be amiss not to thank the sewing machine for the hundreds of thousands of masks they’ve been kicking out for everyone to use. Isaac Singer patented his first commercial sewing machine in 1851, but he was sued for patent infringement and lost his case in 1854. Oops, should have checked his design a little more closely!

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