sorry I keep reading she is married to a marine. marines pretty much adopt and overcome. If you are a military wife you pretty much have to do that too. Or was that just me? either I learned to do it myself or had to pay for someone to do it. whatever it was that needed to be done. letting her learn to sew would be helping her a whole lot more. you might be surprised she probally knows more about it than you think. One girl wanted some tailered clothes done and I told her I don't sew like that and got a D-- in school in sewing. come to find she sewed beautiful clothes for her self and even didn't need a paper pattern.boy was i surprised. but that was in the phillipines she said. I never understood why that would make a difference?