My mom and my two grandmothers had a hand in it. With Mom it was machining and hand embroidery as well as cooking and baking. Grandma Sya sewed dolls clothes by hand and did I ever think she was nifty! She also tried to teach me to knit, but that is a long story for another time. Grandma Hannie inspired and demonstrated and helped and tried her hand at everything from sewing to crochet to macrame. At about 8 my parents bought me a secondhand Singer manual machine and we did some fantastic things together. How I wish I had it now! In return, I taught all three of them to do candlewicking when that became fashionable and I have very sweet and fond memories of times spent with them acquiring the many skills they had to share. My Mom, at 72, is still sewing quite a bit, but the quilting bug never got to her.