None of my kids can sew. I don’t know if they can even do a hem.
My stepdad was a great seamstress. He repaired all his work clothes (he was an iron worker). He sewed bedding for the corner group my sister and I had in her bedroom. He even made the bolsters.
@aunt_bea my sister was two years younger and she had the option of taking wood shop. Did you go to a LA Unified school? I don’t think the schools my kids went to taught sewing even as an elective.