If anyone is interested in sewing some spandex...or good with spandex materials, please contact me at dancequeen11@hotmail.com Thanks, hope to hear from someone soon!I much prefer to think of myself as a seamstress, but then again it has been my career in the past, before I decided to stay home with my kids, so maybe that's part of it. Could it be time for new designations for people who sew? Both the Janome Sewist 500 and the Janome HD 3000 have a top-loading full rotary hook bobbin. That’s good enough.I am reading a book, The King’s Mistress, by Emma Compion, that using an old English term, sempster.My dictionary app gives this definition for seamstress:The first definition of occupation is a person’s usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living.

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I had to comment on this because I always cringe when I see the word "sewer" for the same reasons you mentioned! I agree with Joy.

Great blog, by the way. A couple weeks ago, I posed a question over on Instagram:So today, let’s take a look at the different terms used to describe someone who sews, so that we can better choose the right word for ourselves!Seamstress is recognised as a term used for and by women who sew for a living, whether this is working in factories ‘seaming’ clothes, or from home with a small sewing business.Historically, they didn’t necessarily have the skills to make garments in their entirety, though I don’t believe this to be true nowadays – I’ve met plenty of seamstresses in the fashion studios I’ve spent time in, and THEY can sew entire garments with extreme skill!Sewer is great when you’re talking out loud. 3. I find the word (non- word?) So often, we put our own creative spin on an idea we've seen and it evolves into something new. and the two words are pronounced differently when spoken. When I am joining layers of fabric together with thread (either by hand or machine stitching) to make one single flat article, I am quilting. I’ll use “sewer” on occasion to describe what I do (“I’m a sewer”) but I really prefer “seamstress” when talking about the clothes I make and “quilter” when discussing my quilting.I’m late to the party but I’ll still chime in. If it were, it would of course be an adjective. I know you are probably too humble to use that term personally regarding yourself. I also consider myself an artist due to being a ceramist (not glazes, but acrylics--finished projects look like wicker baskets), so sewist will fit just fine.The suffix "-ist," used to denote a person who participates in a particular activity or business, has been around since even before the 1300's from the Greek and Latin roots. Should it be added to the dictionary? My grandmama was a seamstress, so perhaps I’d prefer that. These words are fine, descriptive and have no need to overlap. , my children questioned? I wanted to know where sewist had come from and I started an investigation into its roots. Tailor vs. Seamstress. Nope! Both the Janome Sewist 500 and the Janome HD 3000 have a top-loading full rotary hook bobbin. The English language has several of such words - spelled the same, pronounced differently, mean different things.Doing income tax and looking for my title as I've just changed professions, and people, I am NOT putting 'Sewer' on the form as occupation.

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Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The reasons I’ve read and heard vary, but most seem to strongly believe it to be a non-word and a hack-job on the English language. I was taught to sew by my mother, who considered herself a "seamstress, crocheter, knitter and doer of all crewel work."