I remember when I was probably in 2nd or 3rd grade going to my grandma's house and she wold have a quilt frame set up in the corner of her dining room and I could never figure out how she got all of those squares together. When I was a little older I had an Aunt that would have a basket of little quilt pieces that she was hand piecing.(I watched her and it looked easy). When I was in my 20's I decided I was going to make a quilt.... so I cut some squares and triangles and tried to hand stitch them together... needles to say it did not work. In my 30s took my first quilting class and have been quilting ever since. My first one was all hand pieced and quilted, after learning strip quilting have not had time to do much hand piecing or quilting. So many quilts.... not enough time. When my Mom passed away I got one of my grandmother's hand pieced and hand quilted quilts. I treasure it.