Both of my grandmothers sewed. Mom's mother sewed baby clothes by hand for a company in New Orleans and she taught my mom. Mom is 86 and still sews the baby clothes by hand. She's sewn clothes for hundreds of babies in her life. I learned to sew by hand from her and by the machine on Dad's mom's treadle machine. I was in 4-H and had to make an apron for my first sewing project in fifth grade. Sewed from then on and made a lot of my clothes and my daughter's. Quilting was started so I could make hand made gifts. I don't have the patience to do the hand work my mother does. After she's gone there will be no one that I know of to do this kind of work.