I wasn't in Junior High yet (7th thru 9th grades). My grandmother signed me up at the Singer Sewing Center in the town nearest us. I made an outfit that was a little top & a knife pleated skirt in a lovely pastel lilac. I wish my mother wouled have kept it. It was my grand-mother(mother's side) that got me into sewing. I stopped making clothes when I began a tean-ager because I never mastered the actual tailored look. I started into quilting about 4 or 5 years ago when my husband had a critical hospitalization & we just happened to go past a local quilt shop that also sold sewing machines. I have the new one (still learning to use it) & several of the old 221 Singers. I've made a few quilts & now trying to get back to garments since I can't seem to get what I want in the stores.