Generally, I’m not too persnickety about what you call me as long as it’s not meant to be mean. Here’s today’s quibble: I like to do things with fabric, thread and needles. You can call me a seamstress, a dressmaker, a tailor, a quilter, a dollmaker, an embroiderer, or a knitter and I’ll admit to any of those designations without kicking up a dust, but I do take exception, as one who sews, to the term I read in the Modesto Bee article today about the closure of JoAnn’s Fabric Stores as a sewer. I’m sure you can guess why. I understand that a gender-neutral term for one who sews as a hobby is needed. Sewist seems to be in Vogue on PatternReview where we who like to sew clothing go to compare notes on everything to do with our chosen hobby. Should I bother to alert the editors of The Bee and tell them to get their minds out of the sewer?
This is what I do all day...