I didn't get to join 4-H or Girl Scouts or anything like that.
I learned to hand sew before I was in kindergarten and then took sewing in 7th grade.
I got married when I was 16 and my mom gave me her old machine when I was 18. For years after that I tailored my clothes that came from the second hand store and made my dressy clothes. I made all of the boys shirts and pajamas until they were about 7 to 8 because by then I could buy them cheap t-shirts and they both wore the same size.