So. I've been sewing for a long, long time. I learned to use a sewing machine when I was 11, and was sewing most of my own clothes by the time I was in middle school.  Thanks to my HomeEc teacher, Miss Marcy Helzer, I got my technique down. I could topstitch like a pro or throw in a zipper - any kind of zipper - like nobody's business. Miss Helzer taught me that "shortcuts always look homemade." (Yeah. She's also the one with the classroom motto "So shall you sew, so [...]