Also, blaming yourself is a response of people who are geographically isolated, and maybe a little insecure … homesewers are going against the grain and much kudos to them – consumerism is currently king.

I’m glad you can professionally critique patterns offered to homesewers, that’s useful. Companies don’t like changing, but they also worry about reputation

I’m so happy to know it was Butterick and McCalls’ and Simplicity’s faults and not mine.

though I have kind of bad eye hand coordination and think that that is part of the problem… I don’t dare sew clothing any more, I think they would come out pretty horrible.

I make lumpy homey looking quilts and patchwork shower curtains.

Nice blog.

Camille

The difference is, we know where the problem lies and hold that party accountable for repair. With homesewing, it’s a huge project because the responsibility has been deflected to the sewer and I don’t think that’s fair. And it’s hard for each individual person to learn (much less learn they need to learn) what they need in a constructive fashion, where the controls are etc.

I don’t think I could teach in real life to a bunch of people although I wish I could. It seems to work best if I teach teachers or other very experienced people because I have social problems. I come off out here as kind of mean but in real life, I’m a very nice person, very tenderhearted (too tenderhearted) but people easily get the idea from how I write that I’m mean and rigid. I overemphasize things and it comes out as stridence. I can only see that stridence if I’m rereading something I wrote a long time ago.

I have thought that a week long retreat for a bunch of people interested in more advanced drafting and sewing would be fun but I’m not someone who is a set-er up-er of things. But, I’d go where ever anybody invited me. I don’t get invited to homesewing things, just industry stuff (and, no claire’s ever there, lol). I really don’t know much about the homesewing business although I wish I did. I think I have a few ideas that people would really enjoy; things that would really improve the enjoyment of their sewing which would improve their quality of life. Hopefully, they’d find time to teach and pass it along. I worry that so many of our skills are dying, they are on my end and I’m not being reassured with any materials from the professional or enthusiast press. There are no advanced sewing books I can recommend ;(

I hope I’m not out of line here but have you ever considered a 2nd career teaching industrial methods to home sewers? Many of us enjoy taking online classes. I’d sign up for yours in a minute and am surely not alone in that. Just a thought…..

I invite you and your friends to submit requests for tutorials at anytime. There is _nothing_ I’d like more than to know what they want to know. I’d love to write a book for home sewers on their top ten sewing peeves.