I can certainly sew. I used to be able to knit and embroider too, but it's so many years since I have done either, I doubt the results would be very impressive
I was one of those kids who wanted to know everything and how to do everything. At the time, it didn't strike me as any more strange to learn how to use my mother's sewing stuff than it was to read my father's law books. And let me tell you, at 8 years old, 20 volumes of "The Roman Laws of Jurisprudence" are no picnic!