Sewing: An Employable Skill

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by Amberly York437 views·Updated Apr 23, 2021
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  1. I created this Prezi presentation because I wanted to dispel
  2. some myths that I've been hearing about sewing.
  3. So the number one thing that I've heard is that
  4. sewing is a dying hobby.
  5. However, with the um invention of the internet, you've got
  6. Pinterest and all these um ways to get different ideas,
  7. hobby sewing is making a big comeback with sores.
  8. Young Soares who whose parents did not teach them how
  9. to sew and young mothers, you're seeing that a lot.
  10. Um when I was in my college class, some of
  11. the best sewers in my classes, we're guys.
  12. Um and they were showing, I'll actually show you some
  13. in just a second, some examples.
  14. Um I created using this because I think it's very,
  15. very important on the surface.
  16. This is kind of what you see the dying hobby,
  17. but a little bit below.
  18. We started to see that it is a useful skill.
  19. Um It helps our students, I'm a teacher to junior
  20. high, it helps our students to learn so many useful
  21. skills that will help them in life.
  22. Um one thing is that it is a money saver
  23. because it helps us to repair broken things rather than
  24. just replacing them, whether it's clothing backpacks, furniture, if we
  25. want to update our furniture that's old or if we
  26. want to buy used furniture and update it um up
  27. cycling unused items to meet current needs, uh, fitting clothing
  28. for you and your family.
  29. Um there's a lot of ways that saves money.
  30. It also is a really great opportunity to provide service.
  31. I've seen people so toys for kids in hospitals, sewing
  32. sanitary napkins for women in third world countries, uh, sewing
  33. blankets for refugees.
  34. Um, there's lots of lots of ways we can apply
  35. this to better our community.
  36. Um below this, um, is student development, there's a lot
  37. more going on with sewing than just sewing.
  38. Um, when you learn a lot of soft skills with
  39. this, so you're they're gaining hand, eye coordination, Being able
  40. to visualize things, process thinking, uh self efficacy k being
  41. creative that patients that um even interpersonal skills, problem solving.
  42. A lot of these skills are occurring as you saw
  43. as you figure out how to do things, learn new
  44. things. Um It's really really great um project to work
  45. on if you want to develop a lot of these
  46. skills that are so useful for our students in no
  47. matter what they decide to do.
  48. Um And of course last but not least are some
  49. careers. Yes there are a lot of fields involving um
  50. sewing. So I'm just going to point out a few
  51. um One is an industrial design, Okay these are just
  52. a few items that need for a person to create
  53. these two completely design.
  54. They have to have an understanding of how sewing works,
  55. they need to know how to sell.
  56. Um And even with um the machines that end up
  57. selling a lot of these things together, somebody has to
  58. set that machine up to do certain things and they
  59. have to know how sewing works in order to make
  60. the machine do that.
  61. Um Of course fashion.
  62. There are so many things k it's not just designing
  63. um like clothes, okay you can have a tailor, you
  64. can have someone who just alters clothing, you have the
  65. actual manufacturers and the actual workers um shoe and leather
  66. workers. Somebody has to design the shoe that you are
  67. wearing. Um Somebody's making patterns, somebody is operating these machines
  68. that are creating um all this all these items of
  69. clothing you can go to target and by um So
  70. there's a lot of different fields within fashion.
  71. Um, One of the ones that I most love is
  72. the outdoor recreational design.
  73. Um, I'm in Utah and one of our universities, I
  74. had a meeting with um, someone from their outdoor recreational
  75. design program and they were telling us how a lot
  76. of their students didn't complete the program because they got
  77. jobs in that field because they already knew how to
  78. sell. These companies want people who know how to sell,
  79. um, even like sails for boats, require somebody to know
  80. how to.
  81. So, um, all of these camping gear, somebody needs to
  82. know how to, so that, yeah, so these are just
  83. some of the reasons that showing is such an important
  84. skill and should be in our schools.
  85. We need more sewing teachers.
  86. We need more students learning how to, So thank you.
  87. Thank you for your time.