Sew many times...

I thought, ".... the only option here is to make do with what is available, or do it myself?."

At the age of 19 - I was a joint home/mortgage owner. (1983)

Married at 20 - ( August 1984 )


We moved from our 1st home in Fazakerley and into our Formby home in November 1986. I discovered I was pregnant the following December (87) and J was born September (1988) when I was 24 years old.



So I bought a second hand sewing machine and learnt how to sew and made dresses for J and myself. I didn't want to dress my baby girl like a teenager (although I was looking forward to that eventually). I wanted full skirted old fashioned styled "Girlie-girl" dresses. They weren't in any of the shops I visited. I couldn't find the woollens I wanted either, so I started to crochet cardigans.

When she was approaching one, J was beginning to toddle around and I made her first woollen camel coat, with a beret. Her 2nd coat was similar in that it too was woollen but double breasted with brass button details were included in this red coat.

I became pregnant with K shortly after J's 1st birthday. By now J's blonde hair almost reached her shoulders, just the curls at the ends lifted it away. (J always twiddled with her hair while drinking or pondering).