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htuttle

(23,738 posts) Sun Apr 5, 2020, 10:22 PM Apr 2020

Today I learned, while learning to sew a better mask today,...

...that the gender neutral term for 'one who sews' is 'sewist'.

Sewist.

As in 'I am a lousy sewist..."

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Today I learned, while learning to sew a better mask today,... (Original Post) htuttle Apr 2020 OP

Never mind. I just googled it, and the argument is far from over htuttle Apr 2020 #1

I can see how sewer would be disfavored in print... RockRaven Apr 2020 #2

I am a seamster KT2000 Apr 2020 #3

Sew what. sorcrow Apr 2020 #4

I'm not a detailed oriented person so my seams are not perfect. That is applegrove Apr 2020 #5

In my HS autograph book - Backseat Driver Apr 2020 #6

htuttle

(23,738 posts)

1. Never mind. I just googled it, and the argument is far from over

Reply to htuttle (Original post)

Sun Apr 5, 2020, 10:24 PM

Apr 2020

Seamstress, Sewer, or Sewist.

Sewer doesn't really work in print, tbh.

RockRaven

(14,958 posts)

2. I can see how sewer would be disfavored in print...

Reply to htuttle (Original post)

Sun Apr 5, 2020, 10:27 PM

Apr 2020

KT2000

(20,572 posts)

3. I am a seamster

Reply to htuttle (Original post)

Sun Apr 5, 2020, 10:30 PM

Apr 2020

and proud of it!!

sorcrow

(418 posts)

4. Sew what.

Reply to htuttle (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 01:31 AM

Apr 2020

Couldn't resist the pun. And better a sewist than a sewer.

Regards,
Crow

applegrove

(118,600 posts)

5. I'm not a detailed oriented person so my seams are not perfect. That is

Reply to htuttle (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 01:58 AM

Apr 2020

why i mostly sewed bathings suits when i did sew things. The stretch stich on the elastic of a bathingsuit does not have to be exact. Now i am sewing masks. I am trying to be exact but in the end better to keep family and friends from spreading COVID than not. Plus i feel like i am doing something.

Backseat Driver

(4,385 posts)

6. In my HS autograph book -

Reply to htuttle (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2020, 03:03 AM

Apr 2020

By the sewer I lived
And by the sewer I died
They said it was murder
but it was sewer-cide.

(name withheld)

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