It’s really not better to imitate ready-to-wear. People who don’t sew don’t know this. Hazel brings me some knitwear: but can you do that? She’s pointing to a double-stitched finishing. Yeah, I say, I have double needle, but that doesn’t mean I want to use it, not now. There’s also that problem of people who think things are always better if done by machine. I mean, so did I, so guilty, really, thinking badly of hand-picked zippers. I realize the absurdity of this amateur study of garment making. I had to write something, so I wrote this. It’s okay, finally. I could spend a year learning to do well what I have spent twenty years doing badly, and after that year, I could still be bad at what I do.
