[Soaring Feather]

Her seamstress friends would show her a lot about dressmaking and without a pattern.

I've known women who do this and I have always been envious of them, I am a pretty good seamstress, but could not do so with a pattern. ;0(

[NY Attitude]

As I remember it took a lot of cloth to start off with before there was a finished product. She would go shopping with her friends and come back to the apartment with yards and yards of cloth. She forgot her dress making talent once we returned to the US.