Actually my quilting hobby started when I finished a cross stitch ring-bearer's pillow top and a needlepoint canvas about 3 years ago. I wanted to have them made into pillows, and it was so outrageously expensive that I made a vow that I would never pay to have someone finish a pillow for me ever again.
So off to the sewing machine store I went and the employee who demo'd the Janome 11000SE for me got me thinking quilts and embroidery and the rest is history.
My Grandmother was a seamstress in the men's clothing mills in Massachusetts during the war and she did slipcovers after that. I always remember her sewing, although she never did quilts. I just love the geometrics of quilts.