When I was 4 or 5 my grandmother guided me making tea towels and potholders out of feed sacks on her old Singer treadle machine. A few years later, my mother gave me some stamped cross-stitch and a little lesson in embroidery. I joined a 4-H club and I learned more about sewing clothing. I think that if the seeds are sewn at an age when a child can recall it later in life then the child will draw upon that experience when the time comes that her fingers get a little itchy for an outlet to her creativity.