49 years of quilting for me. I stated quilting in 1962, to be best of my recollection.
Of course there were periods where I wasn't active, but I do remember making my first quilt with my mom's help, drawing around square cardboard templates made out of cereal boxes when I was 8 years old. It was a scrappy quilt made of 4" squares, no binding-sewn and turned "envelope style" instead, and tied with red yarn.