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- noun One who
sews .
Etymologies
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I prefer the word sewist over sewer but I usually use seamstress.
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I like the word sewist but am always too nervous to use it.
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The word sewist, however, is one of my pet peeves.
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There are no rules in sewing and just as there is more than one way to cook a recipe, or paint a portrait, there are many ways to sew something, and since the sewist is the artist, ALL of the choices are correct.
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I'm getting a lot of flack mostly in email for using the word "sewist" instead of "sewer," so feel free to leave a comment with your opinion ...
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Now, "sewist" I love--it's universal, inclusive, and does not come up with metro sewer districts across the land when you google it.
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I'm getting a lot of flack mostly in email for using the word "sewist" instead of "sewer," so feel free to leave a comment with your opinion ...
March 2009 2009
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Always a keen 'sewist', as she calls herself, it was not until her beloved husband died that Baggott began to think of doing something for herself.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Always a keen 'sewist', as she calls herself, it was not until her beloved husband died that Baggott began to think of doing something for herself.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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I think I said that her last book would be an excellent gift for a tentative teen sewist, and that goes double for this one.
July 2010 2010
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She’s part of a growing trend of “sewists” — people who sew their own clothes — often sharing their projects on Instagram with the hashtag #Sewist or #MeMade.
Making your own clothes is making a comeback. These millennial women are leading the way. Soo Youn 2020
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