I watched my mom make a quilt with such enthusiasm that I wanted to try it. Her first quilt went together in no time and she had the fever. She was 53 when she made her first one. I didn't start quilting until about 26, ten years later. My first quilt was for my daughter who was five and then her sister when she was 3. I never got to make quilts for my other two children because I was too busy with the four children I had given birth to and the one I was married to at the time. I recently started quilting again and I realized I have missed it.