if someone I knew couldnt use their hands for some reason I would help them out, but my first MIL was such a wonderful quilter/ seamstress - all her "friends" and I mean every one of them kept her busy sewing day and night.
Some had tons of money and could pay her, didn't; 2 had sewing machines as good as hers - actually, one bought hers just because MIL got a bells and whistles Janome - and they still came with things to alter, mend, sew from scratch. The Stars wanted her to just "whip up curtains for the Eastern Star hall" a set of 10 floor to ceiling windows. They "thought" they had the amt of material, but she had to buy thread, and, oh any other little items curtains need.
She quit the Star. She tried to start saying no, but after 45 yrs of being walked on, people thought she was going crazy due to her husband passing - lol.
She made me clothes over the yrs, as gifts, and has given me several quilts. I have never asked her once to sew anything for me and I never sew for anyone so as not to get into that trap!! sharet