My mom taught me how to sew. She would let me make things on the sewing machine when I was very young. I made a lot of my own clothes growing up, took all the textile classes I could starting in Junior High and thru college. I have always loved fabric, the smell, the texture, the weight of it, the possibilities. It took me a long time to enter the world of quilting, but now I am hooked, big time! :shock: