I learn to sew on my grandmother's treadle sewing machine. I think I was about 8 years old. I made clothes for my cats as I didn't play with dolls. Later I learned to make Gram's aprons and then simple gathered skirts for myself, then blouses. Gram was a good teacher. She taught me to embroidery and my first project was kitchen flour sacks towels. Gram took a gingerbread cookie cutter and outlined that on the towel and I embroidered that and then the days of the week. Wasn't much in TV programs by then, only 3 channels. Course with all the 150 channels today, there still isn't anything worth watching on TV.