To avoid housekeeping.
Because it's something I can do well that not many people can.
Because I love cutting and sewing with the fabrics I have chosen, to make something wonderful.
I remember when I was too little to actually make anything much yet, but I had an intense longing to make something nevertheless. I took scrap bits of wood from around my Daddy's saw and tried to nail them together to make a sailboat. I just wanted to make something, anything, and didn't quite have the skill yet. Not long after that I started making doll clothes by wrapping bits of rags around the dolls and pinning the ends. I was born wired to make things and clothe people. The desire was there long before I had the skill to do anything with it. By the time I was 10 I dug out a sewing machine that I had never seen my mother use in all my life, and began to thread it by following the diagrams in the manual. That sewing machine gave me 'wings'!