My first experience sewing I was 4 years old on my Grandma's treadle. Been sewing off and on ever since. Then my family and I took a trip to Arkansas and Missouri about 10 years ago. There was a place selling quilts and I wanted one. We went to look at them, but the pattern I wanted did not come in the colors I wanted. I looked up at my husband and said I can make one. We came home a week later and I started. It took 6 months. There are no accurate 1/4 inch seams and nothing lines up but I kept practicing, looking on the internet, reading books, and at the time started watching Simply Quilts. I never took classes, I like to learn things at my own pace. Now, I couldn't imagine not doing it.