I remember when my grandmother would do quilts. As a kid I always wanted to help and she would let me. That is how it all started with me. Now I sew all the time work and home. LOL

This sounds a bit like my experience. It wasn't my Mom or Grandmother that taught me but school where we had once a week classes. I never forget the socks we had to knit. One turned out tighter then a drum and the other one one could have fit two feet into them. Sewed Aprons and pillowcases on trundle sewing machines, knitted squares with different stitches to be assembled for a blanket and embroidered a sampler to keep sewing needles. We also learned how to darn (repair) socks which then became my job in the family. Hated it and haven't done it once I left the family. I picked up knitting and crocheting again in my 20s and haven't stopped since. Basically I love all crafts and will fiddle with most of them. Some for the challenge and never to use them again and some will stick like machine embroidery.

We have treasured memories of precious time spent with the people who taught us over the years. I am so glad for the sewing lessons I had as a child from my mother.

I always remember my grandmother doing crochet work - she has such lovely items and when I started with machine embroidery - it was she that I felt watching over me - the first double-pineapple crochet doily I made - it was an awsome experience to think about that.

I learned to sew in Jr & Hight School - not that I ever really did well - but when my children were small - I sewed them almost everything they wore and me, too. My sewing skills were never that grand and I drifted away from it - but many years later - my Mother was showing me something that she was going to make a relative on her embroidery machine - she had some trouble with the computer end of it and wanted some help - I helped her - not know much of what really needed to be done - but she ended up stitching it out and it was lovely. I never knew until several years later - how that memory had been a seed planted - I wanted to make a blanket for a little one that I was baby-sitting - she was tiny and my sewing machine just wasn't going to do the job - so I went looking and found a place - that showed me an embroidery machine - I put some money down and in a month - I had bought and paid for my 1st embroidery machine and the rest is history. I have a love of lace, but still enjoy all the various ways that we can embellish items and make them so unique and special with embroidery work. What a joyful creation - the embroidery machine. My grandmother would be totally amazed.

Here is the a picture of the doily - that my grandmother inspired me to make & watched me stitch out:

My mom did crafts but always in private. Never saw her working on things. She did tatting, knitting, sewing, crochet, and copper tooling. Would see progress on what she was doing and then the finished item. She basically never taught us how to do things because she had no patience. Always too busy to help us. Her saying was, "Not now I'm busy." I saw other mothers doing crafts and was able to watch enough to figure out on my own. At eight years old my mom had serious surgery and arranged for me to ride my bike to the Singer sewing lady and take sewing lessons. Took some Home Economics classes in school but now it's call Healthy Living and don't offer sewing anymore. Had so much fun making my daughter and son clothing when they were little.

your story gave me goose bumps it is beautiful and i guess we do take for granted our skills passed on by our mothers so thank you mum who has long been upstairs......It is funny my daughter has no interest in sewing or craft but her daughters just love my sewing room i looked after them from a very early age when their mother had to go back to work (5 months old) so they grew up in my sewing room and played with scraps of material an asked me to dew them together to make a quilt for her dolls bed eldest is not at high school and when her mother askes her does she want some help with her sewing project she says no I will ask Nan.....soozie

This bought tears to my eyes. Instead of an aunt watching I had my grandmother, who my mother and I lived with. Thank you for the memories. Sarah.

My mother did every craft that used thread! During WW2 she used to remake peoples clothes for them to give the illusion of something new and make shildrens cuddly toys with the left overs. That was before I was born, but when I was little tt was natural to do what she did by her side.
As she got more frail (she lived to be 91) and couldn't do things herself, she had great pleasure sitting at my side giving advice and instruction as I did realised her ideas for her.
My daughter did the same with me from being very tiny although she doesn't do much now. Perhaps when I am 90........

my mother was very good with craft knitting sewing and i also feel like you she is watching over me and it makes me feel good that i am not the only one smiles