My junior year of high school, my brother gave me a stack of old sewing and pattern making textbooks for Christmas. I was ecstatic! I poured over them for hours and hours. I used barbie patterns and the miniature patterns that were in the books to practice the pattern manipulation techniques that the books taught.
During college, I didn't have a lot of time for fun sewing, but my sewing machine went with me and I used it for mending and alterations for myself.
