I have always been 'crafty', experimenting with crocheting, leather tooling, macrame and decoupage (Boy, does that date me as a hippie girl). I had long admired quilts but wasn't much of a seamstress. However when my only daughter went off to law school I missed her so much, the empty-nest syndrome compelled me to take a beginning quilting class at the local adult ed ctr. That was in 1989 and the beginning of a new and wonderful time of my life. I have learned so much and a lot of it has not been from taking classes but from other quilters who so generously share of themselves and their experience. Thank you all for that!