My MIL taught me how to crochet and hand embroidery while I was pregnant with my DD,she is now 25,I embroidered several blocks and learned to put them together with sashing stripes and tied them.Then one day I was at an elder neighbor ladies house and seen her quilts and totally fell in love,so I started asking her lots of questions and went to the library and checked out quilt books and taught myself,using scizzors and cutting one block at a time,then one day I seen a quilting show on PBS and she was using a rotary cutter,bought cutter and mat (boy what a difference) and I've been quilting every since.