My moma made our clothes even though she worked all day in the factory sewing. She was divorced and dad didn't help her any. there was 4 of us. My Granny, moma's moma sewed all the time as she was a deaf mute and she had raised her 3 children alone because G-pa died 3 years before I was borned and I'm 56. She made quilt tops and pot holders and clothes. all on her treadel, which I now have. She sewed on it for 70 years. So I was always around sewing but My Granny gave me my first lesson. She let me quilt a potholder on her treadel machine. I never did like making clothes so when I got back to sewing at age 30, I wanted to make quilts and so I taught myself.