Sewing... does anyone sew?

I have very little ability in anything requiring needles - knitting or sewing. My mother had no leaning towards those skills either. But there's nothing like incentive - I had a notion of a very French styled coat that I wanted and couldn't find for my daughter when she was small. So I made it. Only piked out on the buttonholes, dressmaker at the end of the street couldn't work out why I was asking her to do them!  Along with the knitted lorikeet coat (unlikely to be worn by my two grandsons!) they are my two best efforts to date.