My grandmother quilted for over sixty years and always, always ripped her fabrics. After getting ahlzeimers and going to nursing home, she started ripping all her gowns to pieces. She would bring the bottom up and bite it with her teeth to get it started and then stretch her arms out to rip it. She had all the nurses baffled as to why she was doing it and after I walked in and saw her, I instantly knew that in her mind she was quilting again. lol