gosh, I thought I had put my 2cents in but when I checked the forum, it wasn't there. I needed something to do when our son died. I had seen many quilts and my daughter quilted. So I figured this would help me to ease the pain of his loss. The very first quilt I did, was for my grandson, ( my son's son). He was so proud of that quilt he had to show everyone. I did it all by hand. He still has it to this day. since then, I've made quilts for my grandchildren, great grandchildren and friends. I only kept one and that was a turning twenty pattern.