Homecraft with BYU

Working at Deseret Industries in the Homecraft Department I was surprised to find out how much fabric was available to us. I was once taken to a warehouse in Salt Lake where there stored an amazing amount of bolts of fabric. There was a big variety, but a huge amount. Someone or some company donated thousands of yards of very high quality denim to the church. Wow! (After the fire in the building we had to cut it ten yard pieces and wash it all. It was a gigantic project!) The program at BYU was able to use this in the mass production class to create items for us that would be very popular. They would actually design the clothing, cut it out, sew up some of the items and send the reminder back to us to package and send out to people in their homes to finish. All finished items would either be sold in the store or go out on Bishop's orders. Large donations of fabric weren't always as fashionable as denim so the finished items, although very serviceable, weren't always as popular.

I didn't actually work with the class, but I did help with everything connected with the class that went on in the building. I learned to use all the saws and how to layer the fabric so you could cut multiple layers at once. I really enjoyed all the mass production techniques I learned.