I want to say from birth! As far back as I remember, I could never get enough. My dad did woodworking, my aunt taught me to knit. When I was 6, my eldest sister got married and moved to Michigan. She got a job a Simplicity Pattern Co. and I began sewing. I was 7 when she had her first baby and I made my first quilt for him. It was tied, but a quilt none the less. I can't remember a time when I didn't have projects in the works. Sewing, knitting, crochet, macrame, weaving (loom), basketweaving, tatting, and of course my passion...quilting.