Unlike many others, I was NOT drawn to my grandmother's quilting. I accidentally found myself in the quilting section of the now defunct GEnie BBS (late '70's I think it was). I was drawn to the warm friendly atmosphere and figured I had to try my hand at this just so I could say I "belonged" to this great group of people. Then I went to the quilt show in Lancaster, found modern quilting and was hooked totally.
I played around with quilting, mostly doing squares for swaps. As bad as my work was, I'm surprised they let me "play" with them. Many years ago I did a lot of garment sewing and thought that should easily translate to quilting. Ignorance is bliss as they say... When GE sold the BBS, the group broke up and I didn't touch anything quilty again until a few years ago. Now I am diligently working toward improving my skills and have a lot of respect for quilts of all styles.