When I slept at my paternal grandparents there were hexagon quilts on the bed. On occasions she would have me draw round old cardboard templates onto newspaper and cut them out. When I was older, about 7, I was allowed to tack the fabric onto them. I spent hours with my Grandma doing this while she was sewing the hexagons together with the minutest of stitches and telling me tales of when she was young (in the Roaring 20s she was a "flapper" and danced on the stage.) This was all I knew of patchwork and never attempted it myself. I came to patchwork afer being talked into attending an evening class in September 1997 by a friend who wanted to make a hexagon quilt. However the class was all about rotary cutting and fast machine piecing which appealed to me and my friend didn't return the following week!