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

[htuttle]

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

Sewist.

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

[htuttle]

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

Seamstress, Sewer, or Sewist.

Sewer doesn't really work in print, tbh.

[RockRaven]

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

[KT2000]

3. I am a seamster

and proud of it!!

[sorcrow]

4. Sew what.

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

Regards,
Crow

[applegrove]

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

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]

6. In my HS autograph book -

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

(name withheld)