Anonymous
Sounds like you are very lucky and blessed Lavender.
My grandmother taught me to chain stitch, we were opposite hands and she really didn’t have the patience for teaching me beyond that, but it was enough to start. I’m pretty sure she started me on cross stitch. My best friends mother taught me a few more crochet stitches and from there I have been self taught. I got my basics of machine sewing in Home Ec, but I never really got too excited about it.
I started with seed beads after getting scammed in a work-from-home job offer. I never got any money but I still got my earrings I made (and they rejected). I have kept one pair because 1) they are pretty and 2) they remind me not to fall for scams anymore.