Honestly, I‘ve been around sewing machines since my early childhood, as my dad first bought me a toy sewing machine from Russia, while he was on a business trip. I think I was about 6 years old at the time and the machine was fully functional, so I immediately started with my very first sewing projects (I especially remember some kind of a small round pad that I created for my toy baby carriage, which I still have to this day!) However, as I grew up, I sadly had to put my marvellous tiny machine aside and the only sewing machine noise that I could hear at home came from my mom’s sewing machine, which she was using quite often.