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    Back to It!

    Dec 13, 2019 3 minutes
    By Barbara Emodi

    I did something this week I have not done for a number of years ... I went back into the classroom and taught a sewing class.

    It has been an adjustment for me.

    For years now I have related to my peers, both in my generation, and in experience, when it comes to sewing. We talk in code about FBA (full-bust adjustments), understand how edge-stitching is different from topstitching. We all have silk organza at home, for underlining,

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