I taught myself to sew for my four girls since they were little. I stopped when the last one was a teenager and begged for store-bought clothes like her sisters, so I stopped sewing altogether. That was 1989. When my last and final grandson was on the way in 2008, I bought a "Quilt in a Day" pattern (which I found out is a lie) and made my first quilt. I thought sewing it together and making a backing, sewing together and turning it right side out was quilting. Was a week from giving it when I found out what "quilting" really was. I think I have done some form of quilting every day since then.