There was no 4-H where I lived when I was young. I was a girl scout though. Did a little sewing there and I absolutely hated it, a bit more in home ec in high school, still hated it. I finally came to sewing a few years later when my daughter was little and I could make her cute clothes. I didn't start quilting til I was 38 and an empty nester looking for an all consuming endeavor. Been quilting for the past 30 years.