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She self-describes her sewing as terrible-- "You should just look at my stitches"-- and 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 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.
In addition to the thimble, she wishes she had had more advice during the process. She had had a friend who stopped her and fixed her mistakes immediately before completely ruining a zipper, but she wished she had someone to advise her before such a potentially fatal mistake.
Person B:
B is a young college female with minimal previous sewing experience (knew only the back stitch). B was making a plushie dog from a DIY kit purchased in Chinatown. The kit came with paper patterns, pieces of felt, stuffing thread and needle, no instructions, and labels written in Korean that she couldn't read.
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