For years, I used to visit my local quilt shop and fall in love with all the quilts. I was busy being a single mom raising 2 kids. No time for classes. Then I was busy raising my grandson. I kept dragging him into the quilt shop to see all the quilts. In 2003 I was laid off. I finally got to take a beginning class during the day. I pieced the quilt for the class but never finished it. The 1st quilt I actually finished was for my grandson. I designed it myself since I couldn't find many patterns for little boy quilts. I haven't stopped quilting since I took that 1st class. I recently starting hand quilting. I really like the look of hand quilting.