My great aunt sewed for YEARS. Her sister...my grandmother...sewed too but not a lot. My grandmother told me that Cora sewed all of her own clothes when she was young...don't think she had many store bought clothes. I remember when I was about 4 or 5 my mother would get a BIG box in the mail just about the time school started and it would be all kinds of clothes that she made for me. At Christmas when she and my great uncle would come to our house...there was always a big box full of clothes that she had made for me. And when I started playing with dolls...she would send me big boxes of clothes for them too. She sewed up until the time she had to move out of her apartment and into a retirement home where she died in 1993.
I WISH I would have thought to ask her what she was going to do with her stash because she had TONS of fabric in her 2nd bedroom/her sewing room. I have no clue if she gave it to someone else or donated it somewhere.