I started sewing around 7-8 yrs old. Mom set me up to the sewing machine and I took to it like a duck takes to water. In Home Ec. in school the teacher got frustrated with me cause I would always say" thats not how my mother taught me". I made all my own clothes and then all my childrens clothes. As they got older I started making other things. My first quilt was with a card board template and sissors. I chose to make attic window cause it only had three pieces. My seams don't match and my points are cut off but I still have that quilt. I hand quilted it. Then I purchased an Eleanor burns book, trip around the world and a true quilter was born. My sister decided to get in on the act and we opened a quilt shop. For ten yrs we had fun, taught classes (even took classes ourselves) We sold the shop and are retired but I continue to make quilts for sale, for gifts, for charity or whoever else needs a quilt. Marge