I haven’t lately, beyond hand stitching for repair occasionally, but I learned to sew when I was just going on 16. I made most of my clothes in HS, and when I got married and had a little one, I made a lot of her clothes too. Many years later, when I had another baby (surprise!), I made a lot of his clothes. I need to get back with the program!
I don’t know how many seperate items I’ve made, I’ve totally lost count, certainly 100 or more. But it’s been several years since I’ve sewn anything. I mostly sewed by machine except for finishing details and hems. I made dresses, skirts, pants, jackets, overalls and shirts.
When I was a young single mom, money was tight, so I’d go to the thrift store and buy big mumuus, super-sized pants, and shirts in pretty colors. I once made the CUTEST pair of oshkosh b’gosh lookalikes for my daughter out of the material from an extremely large pair of jeans. Unfortunately, I’m not the only one who knows that trick, so nowadays it’s really hard to find pretty material in large sizes. Plus even thrift stores are a little too proud of their stuff these days.
I haven’t ever been able to get the hang of either knitting or crocheting, though I did embroider for many years (learned at the same time as when I learned to sew). I have never spun anything or made my own fabric, though I have dyed my own fabric before.
I don’t know about “ancestor” but my Aunt Vonnie, my dad’s eldest sibling, is the one who taught me both to sew and embroider. She taught me to embroider while I was sick. In 10th grade I came down with mono, strep throat, and tonsillitis all at the same time and was out of school for 6 weeks solid. It was sheer hell, I couldn’t even ***squeak ***my throat was in such bad shape (not fun for a chatty Cathy), I did a lot of embroidery. 
