Teaching sewing today – Ginette Lemay

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The thing is, there aren’t any sewing courses like there used to be either, learning how to sew on buttons, make clothes, it’s not that anymore. That’s… it’s too expensive and it takes too much… time! Which they don’t have. They don’t have the time for that the way they used to. They want to make little things. You know, like make a… we’re making a… a bag with several pockets, you know, with a zipper. It’s very trendy right now! But there are a lot of steps. So during the holidays, they sewed… they were sewing… They can make a few seams, but they don’t know how to sew [chuckles]. So they get to work and it’s got to be done quickly, you know. They’re quick. You know, you turn around and OK… I say, “Oh, look, you needed to do that step first.” They don’t read the instructions. So, that’s what the sewing classes are like. We… we pick up the bag. We look at it together. And then they ask me, “We’d like it if you could do it in the daytime.” Because some of them don’t work. There are young Fermières, in their forties, who are at home again. People are going back to that, too. So I said, “Alright.” And there are older ones who come. So they want to work.