Tuition from the serious experts?

How could I possibly turn down such an offer?

It wasn't until I read "Generations" (a great book on gendered patterns of inheritance that concentrated on what mothers passed to their daughters, and why) that I realised why my mother, a seriously great seamstress and knitter, had always refused to let me anywhere near her Singer. I tried to learn on the machine at Mawson (where we used to make dog harnesses from lamp wicking) but kept breaking needles. SIgh!

Cheers, Rowan