I learned to sew in my 7th grade Home Ec class (yep, back then in the 60s when you had to take it in grade school); learned to crochet in my Freshman biology class (no it was not on the class curriculum), tried to teach myself knitting but could never cast on without having a big loop at the end of the first row; hooked rugs and did some needlepoint in my early 20s, caught cross-stitch fever about 15 years ago and now that I think about it I made my first "quilt" when I was 17 (back then I thought it was just sewing) but really never got into quilting until six years ago.