DOTTYMO

I was about to retire and needed a hobby no one else in the family did. I looked at sewing but wanted more. I came from a family of knitters, crochet, tailor and wood turners. I saw quilting and decided I would do that as it also linked in my love of numbers. Been doing it now for 10 years and really enjoy it although I do find people outside quilting don't get it.

notmorecraft

I have been sewing as far back as I can remember, used to design and make wedding dresses always made curtains and soft furnishings. I am one of these people who loves fabric, picked up some fat quarters, decided to make a quilt and have been hooked since. That was 2011. I signed up for a college course last year and I love it.

Monale

Since I was a kid, I have loved all kinds of needle work and sewing and was dreaming of quilting for a number of years. I actually started collecting some cotton fabric scraps about 10 years ago for the day I would take up quilting. However, I thought that in order to do so, I would need 3 things:

1) lots of time (meaning: I would have to wait until retirement which is still decades away!)
2) lots of space (I would need to settle down and have a spare room)
3) own a sewing machine

This view changed in 2011 when I met someone who introduced me to English paper piecing and showed me how hexagon flowers are made. I was hooked! My first quilt was a GFG, but then I decided that there probably isn't much you can't sew by hand if you don't have a machine, and so I pieced and quilted a couple more quilts and half a dozen baby quilts by hand before I moved closer to my mum which means that her vintage Bernina record 830 is now on "semi-permanent loan" with me (my mum uses her only to mend and alter clothes and either comes over to do so or borrows her back when I'm away). Having a sewing machine on hand means that I am now learning FMQ. I still have a long way to go, but I'm really enjoying it!

Sandygirl

Moved "rural" after Y2K. Pulled out my old singer to make curtains. Got the bug to sew again. Knew there was a quilt shop in town. Popped in, told the owner to load me up on supplies and show me what to do. I know how to sew. Did garments years ago but not quilt. She got me going! Over the prior years I Dabbled in some sewing but life got in the way. Needed something to keep me busy in my new town. Shop owner introduced me to the cult! ( guilds) . The rest is history. Quilting opened me up to a great, new world. Why I never stopped in a quilt shop at my old home is a mystery to me! I am one of those who says..."I did not know people still quilted!". Ok, DUCK!

Sandy

Sandygirl

Ha ha! I don't get "golf".

Sandy

Onebyone

I was an avid thread crocheter. No one in my family quilted but my MIL made my DD a tied quilt and she loved it. She asked me if I could make more quilts in different colors. I bought a quilt magazine. I remember buying a rotary cutter and small mat. I cut on my coffee table thinking this will be like crochet, I won't need much room at all. I now have a two room studio with two walk in closets full of my quilting needs.

Shelbie

By the time I was 17, I already had a pile of scraps from all of the clothing I had made. Ivy who worked at the same fabric store as I did on weekends gave me a couple of cardboard shapes to make quilt blocks to use up the scraps. Many years and dozens of quilts later, I still have piles of scraps and still make Shoofly (Monkey Wrench) blocks sometimes.

quilterpurpledog

I learned to sew when I was about six years old and have never looked back. For many years I sewed because it was a necessity if I wanted and clothes to wear. In high school my mentor was my clothing teacher and I went on to become a Home Economist. I made my first quilt for my first son in 1968. It was embroidered blocks alternated with solid yellow squares. From then on I just kept sewing and growing (so did my stash and stuff). I sew some almost every day. I am still happily learning new stuff. It just satisfies my inner being. I make lots of comfort quilts and charity quilts as well as family projects.

PaperPrincess

I had sewn all my life, but never quilted and there is no history of quilting in my family, although I appreciated the time and skill required. Purchased batik fabric on vacation on a whim, and a friend explained how to make a wonky log cabin block. The fabric aged, uncut, for about 6 years, occasionally I took it out and petted it. After I retired I decided it was time and I figured that that quilt would be a one of. I was surprised to find that I loved every part of the process, even pressing and binding. It was the start of a slippery slope!

Geri B

Grew up thinking a sewing machine was as important to a house as stove refrigerator..learned on my moms old singer treadle...when in high school, first partime job after school bought myself an electric sewing machine...look out world, here I come!...sewed clothes, home deco after marrying, etc. was a hairdresser, ceramic teacher..always using my hands to create something. neighbor was an avid quilter and would show me her beautiful quilts, but at the time I thought, not me. Kids got older, not as many demands on me. Loved garage sailing and at one picked up a bag of cut squares......but them up in my little attic sewing room......one evening out of boredom, decided to sew them together......need I go any farther.....