I learned to embroidery at age 9. I sat in the porch swing with an elderly neighbor lady.
she was probably the age I am now or maybe even younger!LOL. My maternal grandmother helped me with my first sewing project. We went to the grain elevator, bought two bags of chicken feed.took it home, emptied the bags, washed it and cut out a skirt and top. Many years later I bought a tub of feed sacks and in the bunch was a piece of that feed sack I had used. I still have it today. I've sewed for 60 years...OMG! I don't sew clothes, but I am teaching a young college girl to sew clothes. I bought her a quilt kit for her birthday and so she made and machine quilted it . Hopefully, she will want to make another and another and another....