Before I left home, the only cooking I could do was to fry hamburger, broil Spam, and make a very simple salad. My mother thought males' ability was mainly to mess up a kitchen... so keep them out of it. But, on my own, I did lean more over the years.
But I've always thought I might be able to learn to use a sewing machine for the simplest repairs. Watching people who use one, it appears that it's not that different from how you use a bandsaw, which I learned to do in my teens. But no one's ever shown me how to use a sewing machine. So I have no idea if I could do it, even at a very basic level.