I was always messing about with some rag by hand. My mom may have shown me something, she never had time to really teach me anything. So I'm self-taught. In high school I got a C for my skirt which is really funny now. There have been so many times when sewing was my fall-back living. I've sewn hundreds of replica uniforms, costumes for museums and shows, a hotel canopy, old-fashioned dresses and maids uniforms, kids clothes, seat covers. I'm a cross between seamtress and mechanic