Greenfinch you could be on to something there. My maternal GM and her sister were both fine needlewomen, one a tailoress and the other did marvellously intricate decorative beading on bespoke evening dresses. My mother hardly knew which end of a sewing needle was up - she once famously lay my younger brother, at about 2 and a half years old, on an old skirt of hers and cut round him from the waist down, through both thicknesses of material, then sewed them together thinking this would constitute a pair of trousers . Needless to say.....
Then I turn out to be an enthusiastic needlewoman, making my own wedding dress and bridesmaids' dresses, and virtually all my DD's clothes as she was growing up - and many of my DS's as well when he was little.
And my DD? Hasn't got the slightest interest in sewing, knitting, crafts. It'll be interesting to see if her baby, due in June, will become a little tailor or tailoress