I am self taught and I guess we do most things ourselves. It must be in the DNA, because, for a whole year it was "Monca do it self" and a scream if we said the H word (help)
I had been in 4-H since I was 8, so when it was time for high school, I looked into home Ec. The teacher told me not to bother, I probaly knew more than her in the sewing area.