Well, I have firm evidence of my grandmother(father's mom) my mother, myself, my daughter and now my granddaughter are all quilters. I am quite sure that my great grandmother on my father's side would have had quilting and sewing in her skill set. My grandmother on my mother's side of the family was a seamstress as a profession before she married and moved to the farm and had a family. I never saw her making quilts but she did have a glorious collection of buttons.
I recall my mother, #8 of 9 children, say that her mom was a really good seamstress but she was so old when I came along that I never saw her sewing.