When I was about 46 years old, a women I worked with showed me a pillow or drew me a picture of a quilted pillow top. I was so interested, I ask her a bunch of questions about it. I had sewed for many yrs but did not quilt. When we moved here I took a machine quilting class at the college. I made about 13 quilts and got out of that again and just got back to making everything else. I am a vendor and sell my products at shows. They are getting so expensive and the sales have gone down and I had to do alot of traveling so just in the last few months I've cut back on shows and started quilting again. I found this board and love it. Quilting has changed alot since yrs ago when I quilted and ther are many new techniques and products out there. It is amazing. I am glad I found this quilting board and all the friends. I also join the local guild here which I belonged to many yrs ago when it first started. Now they have at least 85 members. this is a small town. I am the only one in my family that sews. I taught my mother to sew. That is a switch. I have 4 brothers and 3 daughter. My granddaughter just stared to sew in the last yr and has one of my old machines. She likes it.