My first quilt was a creation which just came out of my head. I always did garments but never quilting. I bought a lot of four yard pieces of fabrics at a really good sale and was trying to figure out what I would make out of my beautiful collection of fabrics. I was over-laying about five or six pieces on my kitchen table, touching and feeling how wonderful they felt and low and behold I thought this could be a quilt for my bed. I played with my fabric for about two weeks and one morning I got up and knew what I wanted to do. I did a "double wedding Ring" with my very own touch because I didn't know at that time there was a quilt by that name. I just got pencil and paper and began to make the pieces that would work together and meet in the same way time and time again. I used colored paper and taped them together using a 1/2" seam allowance. OOPS. My very good friend came by to see what I was doing and said" those seams are way to wide. She helped me trim back to what was the first 1/4" seam I had ever sewn. By the time my quilt was finished and this friend of mine did the quilting I was one of the happiest people alive. I still use that quilt on my bed. I did not know my friend was a quilter until after I had completed my top and she told me she quilted and would finish my quilt for me. She just let me do my thing with making my very own creation, other than the 1/2 seam I had taped over for seams and never told me she was watching over my shoulder "just in case". What a blessing to have a friend like this for most of my adult life.