My step son-in-law wanted to make a nylon jacket when he was in college. He found a friend who had a sewing machine and she was willing to teach him how to sew. He still has the jacket (I did some patching on it a while back). When his first son was born, someone gave him a flannel blanket - just two yards of fabric RST and turned. Bill loved it and started making them for others, some with matching pillows. He's made dozens of these. One day Bill was at the sewing machine, I, his step-mother-in-law, was cutting fabric, his mother was stuffing the pillows, and his mother-in-law was slip-stitching the seams closed. All in the same room. It was great.