I started learned about quilting in my 20s from when I would stop at my Great Aunt Maude's home in Kansas when I drove from CA to NYC many times. She used cardboard templates to piece quilts using scissors to cut. She had a GFG for her granddaughter hand quilting it on her frame in the Living room. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have ever started quilting. Both my grandmothers and mother sewed a bit but none of them quilted. I was sure that quilting was going to die in the 80s but with new inventions, it thrived.