[QUOTE=IAmCatOwned;4815243]I think you are just being reactionary. It will pass. I AGREE with you in part. We stopped exchanging gifts when my youngest sibling was 18 and out of high school. Only children in the extended family receive any kind of gift. We do more for each other during the rest of the year (I don't work well to deadlines). However, homemade food or sewn gifts are welcome by everybody except one.
I think it's a fine thing to teach your granddaughter sewing skills. But, lets remember she still deserves to get some new things, even packaged in plastic!
I agree with your comment on the granddaughter. She might LOVE to learn to sew with you, but to a child, that is not a gift - that is what a grandmother is supposed to do. No matter how much we dig in our heels and scream, the world is NOT going back to life before iPhone and Xbox. And taking away "store bought" things a child likes will not make her love you more!