I come from a long line of quilters, Mom, Grandmas, Aunts, Sister, but it was my Granny that got me hooked. I lived with her after I graduated from HS, had a friend that was moving back to CO and I volentureed to make her a quilt. Granny said I could go thru her scrapes (didn't call it stash back then) and pick what I wanted. I choose the maple leaf pattern, Some where I got the notion that Granny would do most of the work...NO SO. She showed me how to cut and piece the first block and said to let her know when I completed the remaining 11 blocks. Once I had all the blocks done she showed me how to strip it together and once I finished that step we had an old fashioned quilting bee and I learned how to hand quilt from 2 of the best quilters, my Granny and Aunt Bertie. Took a year to complete the quilt but my friend loved it After that I was hooked and have not stopped quilting since.