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I made a short sleeve blouse with a jewel neckline and center back zipper. We had to baste the zipper by hand and tack down the facings and hand-stitch the hem. It was for my 8th grade home economics class and I almost failed - I brought my project to my mother because the teacher was always having me rip out and do over what I sewed and I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. My mother said if I ripped anything else out I would ruin a good piece of fabric and told me to make the blouse on my own, and complete it before showing it again to the teacher. It turns out the only thing "wrong" was that I was left-handed so my hand stitching looked different and my stitches went in a different direction. Lucky for me my mother also sewed left-handed! She was the best teacher I ever had - she always told me that if the inside wasn't as good looking as the outside it wasn't done right.