If you can run a saw, you should be able to run a sewing machine. The manly machine is the old treadle, but it requires you to run the treadle with your feet, and guide the fabric with your hands, and that takes a bit of coordination.
You can get an electric one. Then once you figure out how to thread it, and you'll probably need reading glasses for that, you only have to worry about whether it is in forward or reverse--the basic machine that is. Lace is pretty easy to sew on. I bought some harder stuff, it also had little pearls to deal with and those hung up on the presser foot. So, the pockets didn't get lacy pearly decor.
Had I been able to find a different foot for the machine, the pearls would not have hung up. But such is life.