[Ruthxxx]

I've been sewing clothes since I was ten! Some stuff was pretty awful but I was darned good by the time I hit 20. I wanted to make my own wedding dress but my mother didn't think I was good enough. After the wedding, I made a fully lined and interlined winter wool coat with bound buttonholes and fur trim - that shut her up!

When I was a SAHM, I had to sew or go naked as money was tight. I started a small dressmaking business which grew very quickly. I've done about 26 wedding gowns (none for me) and made most of my own business clothes when I was working. For a while I did theatre costumes and really learned a lot. ('Scuse me - I did make my dress for wedding #2, finishing it at 3 AM!)

Right now, most of my sewing is quilting although I do have a silk bengaline blouse on the go right now and a summer pantsuit waiting.

[Cherrygrl]

I am just starting to learn to sew....I have a very Hourglass shape...Big boobs and Hips/butt ..so when I buy a shirt/dress/bathing suit I have to buy a bigger size to fit the girls in so its always too big in the middle ...I wanted to learn so I could "take in" my own stuff and make the off the rack stuff fit me better...I have started doing the easy stuff first mostly what you would call t-shirt surgery...takin big t-s and making them fitted or making them into tanktops..... I hope to get better and move on to making things from scratch..we will see...