I think I was born with a quilt obsession. I grew up with quilters and loved to pretend to quilt when I was in elementary school. I quilted on the quilts they were quilting with a thread that had no knot in it. Eventually they let me knot my thread and I've been quilting ever since. I helped my mother and grandmother design quilts when I was growing up and made my first real quilt when I was 18.