My DGM would move everything out of her dining room, every winter. I was about 5 years old. She would sit there for hours and tell me stories as she stitched. Every week, 8 ladies would come and they would all talk and laugh, each one quilting. One day, one of the ladies ask me why I didn't sit with them. She handed me a needle and thread and showed me how to make the stitches. So that is what I did every winter until I was about 15. GM passed and so did the quilting.
MY DH and I decided to open a fine dining restaurant in a historical building. One of our Cooks did quilting, but she tied most of hers. She and I then attended a quilt show and took some seminars. That was it. The first 10 years I only did 3 quilts, but now that I am retired this past February, I have 7 tops that I need to quilt at this moment. My DGM with me now every time I enter my quilting room. I am more than "hooked on quilting".