“If you can’t handle a pillow case, what’s it going to be like when you make our dinghy chaps?” says Paul as he looks at me in front our new sewing machine and laughs. Paul is 10. He is a lovely person. This summer he cradled a pot-bellied pig on his lap. But he is … Continue reading Humble seamstress beginnings: repairing a pillow case on our Sailrite (industrial) sewing machine