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She self-describes her sewing as terrible-- "You should just look at my stitches"-- and makes up for it uses only the cross stitch and the back stitch, mostly just to hold material together. She hides her poor stitching by finding clever ways to hide her poor stitching, such as using ribbon to cover up the messier edges on sewn-on lace. She has made mistakes such as sewing the front of a dress to the back of one while making an alteration, and then having to take all of her changes thus far out. She also is unfamiliar with how to handle various kinds of fabric, having at one point actually broken a needle while trying to stitch fur to faux snakeskin. In addition, because she did not know how to use have a thimble and did not think to acquire one, she found herself pricking her hands very frequently why trying to stitch these materials together.
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