I first started in high school, just cutting squares from fabric left over from dress I had made. then sort of got busy with college and life. I joined the air force in 1985 and moved to Nebraska. I took a quilt top of my grandmother's to the local quilt shop to see if someone would quilt it and the woman who ran the shop insisted I do it myself since it was a family heirloom. Been hooked since and have since gotten my mother to quilt as well.