I have been sewing since 7th grade and just started making quilts about 10 years ago. I'm almost 65. I was looking for a new hobby and prayed about it. The Lord led me to quilting. I was browsing on the internet one day and saw an ad for freequilting.com. When I went there, the Lord led me to this pattern that seemed pretty easy. So I tried it and was hooked. It took me almost a year to finish and I hand quilted it. It was the one and only quilt that I hand quilted. I've machine quilted ever since. Hand quilting is just too slow. I have so many quilts in my head that I can't take a year to finsh each of them.