My dear grandma Helen who learned to sew during the depression, taught me to make clothes without a pattern. I sewed like that for years, until I bought my first pattern. What a revelation! I could make a dress that was not an old fashioned shirtwaist style! I made most of my DD's clothing and mine. In 1990 I had a stroke at 32 years old. I had a wonderful neighbor who decided to start me on a GFG quilt by hand to help with my eye hand coordination issues. I made it into a lined tablecloth for her, but the "bug" had come home to roost. I have been making quilts ever since.