Cut & Sew Studio is warm and welcoming. Catherine treats beginners and experts equally and gives a lot of one-on-one attention. She clearly has a knack for both sewing and teaching and makes sewing seem approachable. I know now that though you can "self-teach" to an extent, having an expert to guide you provides invaluable knowledge. This is especially true with sewing, as if you do one step wrong, the rest will go awry. A lot of craft classes (pottery, knitting, etc.) feel very rigid and feel almost like you're back in high school (oh no!), because you sit there and follow along step by step and the teacher doesn't move on until everyone is finished. That's not how Cut & Sew Studio operates, which is really to its advantage. Catherine doesn't mind repeating the same thing twenty times & lets you go at your own pace. For the Intro to Sewing class, you are at the sewing machine almost immediately. Clearly, she knows we will learn best by doing rather than seeing. I highly recommend this studio, even for the person who has never even seen a sewing machine let alone made anything.