I started hand sewing when I was a kid, then I got a sewing machine for my graduation gift...well money and I bought it. Started making clothes ect. then when I got married, my Ex'smom was a quilter. She's an awesome, backwoods type, does everything on her own.....still uses a woodstove to heat her house at 80! I learned to quilt from her...she saved all her scraps, and let me take what ever I wanted from them, gave me old books, she was awesome! I made my DD a quilt, then started making them as baby gifts!