my DH's Aunt Joann gave me a christmas table runner. Then visiting her home in Houghton Lake, MI she had her quilting blocks all over the dining room table and that made is worse. Husband begged me not to start quilting so I held off for a couple of years, then finally made some placemats as I was waiting to hear about a job position I had interview for. Figuring if I started something big I would get it. Well 6 sets of placemats later I didn't get the job and DH said you could have made a quilt for the bed. I layed out all the placemats and he was right. So then I started on large quilts and haven't stopped. That was almost 3 yrs ago and I have done 38 or so quilts.