you soound like me, I worked for twenty pluss years and never thought I would be quilting,I am on my fourth quilt,
I have sewed ever since I was 10 yrs.
My mother inlaw was a wuilter,everquilt was hand pieced and quilted,she put the quilting frame up in the fall after canning and everyone walked around it in the winter
sorry it took me solong to answer
d.swindle