I wonder what term hand embroiderers use to describe themselves in print? We don't really 'sew' as such, but we certainly 'stitch' and do lots of it too.
I must admit, I'd never even thought of what to call my machine related activites until I came here but then if I'm talking about machine sewing/tailoring I've always said that 'I'm a sewer' which is fine if it's heard. It's only in print that the word becomes somewhat confusing depending on the context.
Hmmm! Seams (pun intended) to me that the machine is the stitcher, the one using it the operator. One more monkey in the wrench.
Not something I would stock, but if you take it private I may be able to order.
Embroiderer is what I've always used. Or just "I embroider".
I usually hear the cross-stitch folks use "stitcher", and the other embroidery folks tend to be more specific.
I usually just use "I sew" or similar construction, and stay away from nouning a verb
Kay
If I am embroidering, I am an embroiderer. For the collective, because I also sew, knit, crochet, I call myself a "needlewoman". p.s. I am also a beginning weaver, but I have not yet mastered a drop spindle.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
I got the Tshirt for that earlier this year :-)) I have finished a sampler but my loom is sitting doing nothing since that time.
If you can spin on a wheel, it should take you about 5 mins to learn how to use a drop spindle.
I wrote a 213-page book on professional sewing without once using the words "sewer" or "seamstress". It was a challenge!
I call myself a craftsman.
Yabut, are you really a "man"??? That's the problem with many of the terms for "what we do", they are gender-specific. I choose not to be identified by my gender.
Don't get me started on "[fill-in-the-blank]person/people"....
Beverly
I'm a 'professional sewing loony' to many of my costume customers, and The Sewing Lady at school. Suits me!
I say that I do specialty sewing.
While making a Christmas purchase for my daughter (aluminum faced thermal blanket to keep in her truck) I struck up a conversation with the proprietor of Uncle Sam's (military surplus, paint gun and airsoft supplies, outdoor outfitters).
He gave me one of his cards listing their brand new website, and I gave him one of mine. He was no more than politely interested but when I mentioned that I had an industrial machine that could handle multiple layers of canvas, nylon or leather, he lit up like a roman candle. It seems he gets lots of inquiries about repairs and custom items.
I told him that I might not be able to handle certain projects but that I'd be happy to come up (by appointment), take a look and offer an informed opinion and/or an estimated cost for the repair.
Wasn't the consensus quite a while back to call ourselves sewists?
Why must everyone be labeled? I call myself Liz, and that works just fine for any area I happen to dabble in.
Nope, I'm a woperchild.
My family calls me a nick name that has no relation to my unusual real name. Folks around town refer to me as the quilt lady, the dog lady or the sewing machine lady depending on how they know me. There might be a few said behind my back too. Most are not too bad but just one would make life easier! Taria
Liz wrote:
Consensus??? In *this* group??? ;-)
Beverly, sewist extraordinaire...
How to it.The upper looper broken
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