You don't have to be an expert seamstress to be able to sew with handwoven fabric.
For me, weaving is always an adventure, sometimes because I head off into uncharted territory and sometimes because I end up in unintended places. But some weaves are adventures in themselves.
Sometimes when you are in the midst of something like Convergence you don't have a good sense of all that is going on.
You don't always cook by a recipe but you use them for inspiration. Anita talks about how she uses weaving projects from books and magazines as her "weaving recipes".