I visited Tracy McElfresh of https://www.tracyssewingstudio.com/ recently.   I know Tracy spends a lot of time teaching people to sew.  I asked her how she learned.

“My grandmother came from Puerto Rico to New York City and sewed in the garment district there.  She would bring fabric remnants from work and use them to make all of my mother’s clothes.   So as I was growing up my mother didn’t want to just go to a store and buy my clothes.  She taught me how to make clothes by deconstructing old clothes.  I would go to thrift stores and buy things that were very inexpensive, take them apart, and reassemble them into clothes that I loved.”

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