I understand how teens like to shop and try on clothes, so maybe you won't be able to make all, or even most of their clothes, but after looking through the pattern catalogs, ready-to-wear styles are available to the home sewist that will please a teen-ager.

[Henry Jones was] an avid hunter who'd become an old hand at reupholstering Jeep seats and making sportsman's clothes for his field forays in pursuit of wildlife, he diversified his business interests by adding fabric to his shelves of staple goods.

'I wasn't a seamstress, obviously, and I sure didn't want to be called a sewer, because that looked too much like something else,' he recalled. 'Of course, we have to be so politically correct nowadays that the accepted term has become 'sewist.'

…or a sempstress as a 'sewist', or a conchologist as a 'shellist'. All these words may come into use among 'progressivists', but are equally abominable with 'scientists'.