At least one great-grandmother quilted. Her daughter, my maternal grandmother did not like to sew or quilt. Cooking was her speciality.
My paternal grandmother did some quilting. I have a quilt she made from dress fabric scraps. It is machine quilted and tied.
My mother sewed and crochets but never quilted. She says she thought about it a lot but was overwhelmed with the patterns before rotary cutters...thos that say cut 1,000 of this template and 1,000 of that template.
I started quilting when I was about 30 years old...about the same time rotary cutters got very popular.
One of my dad's sisters has quilted for years. I know she was hand piecing and quilting in the 1970's. She is now in her mid-80's and still sews on the machine making quilts, eye glass cases and tote bags for charity.