I started sewing when I was 6 years old. Mom was an amazing seamstress-made all my clothes as a child. She would let me sew scraps on her sewing machine while sitting on her lap (she called them lap lessons), and by the time I was in the 10th grade I was making my own winter coats. Fast-forward some 20 years later, my granddaughter needed a bedspread. I whipped together some scraps I had to make her a simple 5" square block quilt. I've not made a stitch of clothing since then, with quilting being my new passion. Thank you, mom, for the lap lessons. I'll treasure them always.