Being a Seamstress is...

• Taking over your parents' garage to store your fabric.
• Taking over half of the family room as a sewing area.
• Buying cool patterns when they go on sale even though you never use patterns.
• Learning how to be really, really good with an iron.
• Owning two irons - a regular one and a mini one.
• Having your mom bring you back fabric as a souvenir.
• Not letting anyone you know throw away curtains because they're the best sources of awesome cheap fabric.
• Organizing your thread by color and type.
• Spending more time analyzing the costumes in movies than the dialogue.
• Asking for a dress form for Christmas.
• Daydreaming not about boys, but about awesome new sewing projects.
• Actually dreaming, not about boys, but about awesome new sewing projects.
• Maxing out your credit card on fabric, rather than make-up.
• Measuring the economy by how fabric prices fluctuate. 
• Winning games like Scrabble and Scattergories because you know obscure clothing words.
• Finding mysterious bags on your front step full of fabric because everyone knows you'll give all sewing stuff a good home.
• Going garage-saleing so that you can snap up bargains when people give up sewing and sell their stock. 
• Regret wasting even the smallest bit of fabric because IT'S FABRIC!
• Having your friends send you links for every cool costume and sewing reference they find and say "Look! It's you!"
• Play "Who am I?" at your birthday party and your friends tag you as Edna Moe from "The Incredibles."
• When distracted by a superhero costume, it's usually because it's physically impossible, not just because it's immodest. 
• Being unable to fall asleep because you didn't hem the organza properly. 
• Wishing we still had old fashioned quilting parties because getting together with other girls to sew sounds like the best thing ever.