If you’re a Sewing blogger or even a casual reader of this blog I trust you already know that the sewing community is awesome. Dare, I say, it enriches the home sewist. Still, some people think otherwise. So I put this together as a response to a post on Medium titled How “indie” pattern companies, Instagram and the sewing blogosphere are stifling home sewing. Medium is an open writing platform. Anyone can publish an article to it. Professionals and amateurs alike use it to find an audience. The piece from December 2017 didn’t receive much of a response. But there was