The nice thing about sewing your own clothes is you can wear things that weren't made in a sweatshop in a 3rd world country. Trying to get US-made clothes is expensive and difficult. Even if it says Made in the USA there are tricks to get around that & still legally be able to say it. I don't care so much what country it is made in but I want to know that it is fair trade and not made in a sweatshop. I'm willing to pay a little more, but it's usually a LOT more and I can't afford it.

Not that I sew my own clothes. I can sew a little but not that much, and there's only so much time. This weekend I chose to build my own bicycle wheel and regretted it. It was fun, and rewarding and all that, but it made for a busy weekend and I didn't get it finished so I'm without a bike at the moment. (I walked.) Long before the weekend was over I wished I'd paid to have it done.