*I* certainly have! Go and look at my son James learning to sew and at his quilt he made for a friend.
I'm also in school 2 half and three whole days over the next two weeks, starting tomorrow, teaching 10 YO's to sew with five or six different machines! I'm taking a flock of them into school... :)
Yes, my mom taught me when I was 8. I thought she knew everything. Decades later I found out that she was self-taught and her very first garment was her own wedding dress. She had emigrated from Korea to London to marry my dad, who was the very first Korean student in a UK University. She told me that she loved her wedding dress until someone pointed out that fabric has *grain* and you don't just cut the pieces out at any old angle. :-) She didn't know how much I loved sewing until she realized the pants I was wearing to 6th grade were my own handiwork. That zipper fly and even topstitching floored her! And true to form, I made my own wedding dress later.
I took a fashion design course at a community college and discovered that I hate designing and could never do that professionally. The instructor said that part of a job interview for one of her former students consisted of being put in a room with a pile of paper and told to generate 200 sketches in about an hour. I switched to Architecture and my garment construction experience really helped me enjoy the "tectonics" of building design. The latin rules for architecture apply so well to sewing: Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas. Garments should be durable, useful, and beautiful! I hope to take courses in garment construction so I can eventually sew for others.
I can't wait to teach my son to sew. He's just itchin' to get at that footpedal. Good idea to hold him in my lap and sew something together!
Pora
I started stiching by making dolls when I was a small kid ,used to pester my mother to lend me her old sarees for making dresses for my dolls since then sewing was my passion.I think its in my gene all my mothers sisters love sewing but they say I am a class apart. When in my teens my mother stopped stitching and left hers to me .Now I do all my mothers,mine ,my baby's some of my husbands outfits.I did a month's course to learn the basics but I feel books are a better guide.I would like to go commercial but haven't found the right opening. Thanks for asking
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