Er… I actually have churned butter and made lace…
(Not at the same time)
I can sew elastics and/or ribbons into ballet shoes. It doesn’t have to look good, because it’s all on the inside, it just has to hold.
I have my mother’s mid-60’s Kenmore sewing machine, in a closet somewhere. I don’t think I’ve ever used it since she gave it to me in the mid-80’s. My mom could sew anything, but I did not inherit that skill, alas.
In an extreme emergency, I could sew up a torn seam, and probably a button. Maybe a hem. I mean, I know how to thread a needle and make knots and move it back and forth. It would be ugly, but probably serviceable temporarily.
In real life, my solution to items that need sewing is to throw them away and buy a replacement that doesn’t.
Leave? Never! Where would I go if I did? 
Thanks!
Yep; chose option 1 – learnt when I was quite young, and come from a family who were accomplished at various sewing tasks and handwork, etc. Made my pocket money for a few years that way (spinning/weaving, quilting, etc – enter enough competitions and shows year round and it can keep you in spending money).
Well, depends on how you use it. I made a hand embroidered patch with a duck in a sunbonnet for the bag I use to carry my stuff to the shooting range. I used eight dollars worth of solar screening and my large grommet tool to double the size of our football tailgate tent.
Besides, these things come in waves. Cake mixes and Hamburger Helper went from being the rage to being scorned. Baking your own bread was unheard of, then trendy, then you got a machine.
I prefer to think of it as expanding my range of options. I need a new skirt. I might buy, I might sew. I need a new pillow for my couch. It’s got to go with my two tone green sofa, purple throw, and lilac chandelier (seriously). Ugly pillows at Big Lots are $15, for this color combo, I’m definitely sewing. I’ve seen $90 pillows at Target that I could make for less than $10 by sewing myself. That’s a lot of beer money.
Yep, me too. I can make clothes from a simple to moderately difficult pattern and have, but I don’t enjoy it. I do like to make my own pillow cases, curtains, and heat packs on a regular basis, though. My last sewing projects were making sleeping bags for toy people and putting elastic into the cuffs of my sleep pants that lacked it.
Si.
Sew so-so? Si.
Oddly enough, when I was sewing up a pair of leather work boots for a tradesman I never felt “little womanish”. I usually felt kind of butch doing that, it’s sort of macho sewing…
Probably has to do with materials and context.
In between 2 and 3. I can patch up things manually, and I can somewhat use a machine. I used to would be number 2, but I’m so out of practice since my grandmother died 15 years ago that I’m probably much closer to number 3 now.
We had a couple of med students in our quilting guild for a while and they were amused that these are used to tie quilts:
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Sewing is that thing you do with seeds, right?
I’m probably between 4 and 5. I can probably patch something up, but it’ll probably end up looking like shit.
I really want to learn how to weave, though.
Sort of ditto 
I hand sew Elizabethans and have been known to buy fresh water pearls by the ounce and silk or cotton velvet by the bolt :smack:
I voted choice #3 but I’m really more of a 3.5.
I can hand-sew buttons & have hand-fixed a falling hem or two. I’d never try to hand-hem anything I intended to be seen wearing. I have bought and used basic sewing machines, but could never learn to make anything other than a bunched-up mess tied together with a lumpy ball of machine-tangled thread. My talents apparently lie elsewhere.
I fit into the “can sew on a button, etc.” category. But generally, I “effect repairs” by having the skillful seamstress at my local dry cleaners do it.
As you sew, so shall you rip.
One of the skills that my mother sent her three boys off with was the ability to repair buttons and clean up a pants cuff. It has been a long time since I fixed a cuff but I repaired a button a few months ago, much to the amazement of our empregada. 
I picked “In a pinch, I can stitch on a button or repair a hem or a seam with a needle and thread.” That pretty much sums it up perfectly. In fact, just the other week I broke out a needle and thread to sew up a small hole in the underarm of a favorite sweater (even just last week it was still cool enough for sweaters; not so much now). Buttons and small holes are the best. I could probably fix a hem.
That’s a lot! 
Me, too! A simple A-line pattern. I was so proud of that thing, but I was never really one to wear skirts.
One of the things I loved about going to school in England for the equivalent of 7th and 8th grades is that everyone got to take woodworking and metalworking classes. In the former I made a coat hook that I never used but kept for the longest time, and lost track of a few years ago; in the latter I made a plumb-bob that I lost almost immediately.
The only thing I regret about breaking up with the last guy I dated is that one of his friends was going to hand-make a corset for me for the next Renn Fest. I was dubious about my ability to look good in one, but he disagreed. I would have liked to find out who was right.