Brooke looked pretty happy about today's class- and slightly tired, because she'd been up all night reading takes on red carpet fashion, shhh it was her job- because they were starting with something she knew how to do. Again, shhh it was her job.

"Sewing!" she announced, calling everyone to gather around the little table of supplies she had set up. "It's a pretty basic skill that everyone should know how to do because there's really no reason not to. If you lose a button on your shirt, are you going to throw the shirt out? I mean, if you lose the top button it can be a statement, but like, one of the middle ones, it's an easy fix. Or if you rip something on a seam, you can repair it instead of wasting or replacing it. It's really pretty easy," she said, picking up a needle and thread to demonstrate. The loose end goes through the tiny hole in the needle. You can wet the end a tiny bit if you need it to go through more easily. Then you'll tie a knot at the end of the thread, because it you don't, and you put it through fabric and expect it to stay put, then I have no idea why you'd think that. And then you can start, like so."

After showing them how to do that, Brooke said, "You'll try that out today, and then afterwards I want you to test out the sewing machines over there. I've got written instructions by them, and you can practice just learning how to work the machine, because next week I'm going to give you a pattern to work on. Just, uh, don't sew your fingers."