Mainly, I learned from my dad. Mom was terrible with the "home arts". I fought my sewing teacher every inch of the way. Dad never met a technical skill he didn't want to learn. He made sails for his boat as a teen. In WWII, he made a spinning wheel and loom and turned waste wool from the shipyards into a 3 piece suit and a bunch of upholstery using family antiques as a pattern.