Advice needed : Sewing lessons

This is why I started teaching sewing back in 1989--because of so many asking me to sew for them. I'd done it for so long (since the late

1960's), and was so tired of sew> I always get asked by friends or sometimes mere acquaintences if I

Exactly - I would never ask somebody to sew something for me. For one reason then I would never learn how to do it myself. But when I couldn't get my first machine to thread properly, I wasn't above asking my sewing friend over for lunch and chat, and she gladly showed me where I had gone astray while she was there.

Inviting people over is one of the few ways I can motivate myself to clean, so it's a double bonus around here. :)