I have sewn for 45 years and now run my own sewing school. About 25% of my students are returning to update their skills and learn how to fit their "new shape". The rest are enthusiastic new sewers, keen to learn and explore their own creativity and experience the satisfaction of knowing they have made their own one-off original. Quite a number of my students are aged 11 to 19 years - how wonderful to know that regardless of what we hear, sewing is not a dying art!