I just love stories like that. Wish my eldest granddaughter, who lives 2 miles away, would take an interest. She sees me sewing all the time but just doesn't seem to care. Her mother has no interest in it either. My mother never had a sewing machine and didn't want one. No grandparents that I knew, so didn't get it from them. My first experience was in 8th or 9th grade home ec. class and I was hooked. Got my first machine, a Centennial Featherweight, when I was 18 years old and have never stopped sewing since.