I took Home Ec in high school and enjoyed it very much. When I became a mother of a boy and a girl I sewed a lot of their clothes, that was in the Stretch-and-sew days. I made T-shirts, pajamas, and a lot of my daughter's little dresses. There was a fabric store walking distance from where we lived and I would go down there and pick up remnants, they had the best remnant table I have ever seen, then or since then. The pieces were usually just big enough to make a little dress for Jennifer. What I loved about having all of the remnants was that I could put together something that was all of my own choosing after I got them home...I still love having that kind of choice...that's why my stach is sooooo darned big. Choices is what it's all about.