As far as I know, my sister and I are the first quilters.
My husband's mother was born in WV (in a coal mining town that has the same name as her maiden name) and the only photo I have of his maternal grandmother is one where she is sitting quilting at a quilting frame. His paternal grandmother was a quilter, left quilts finished and not finsihed with written instructions of what she was doing. I never knew this until after she died, I really think we could have been good friends.