I've only been quilting myself for about7 years, but I've always been facinated with this beautiful skill since I was 4 years old and was exposed to quilting at my maternal grandmother's house on the farm. She almost always had a quilt on the frame then and even after she and Grandpa moved to town. My mom and her sisters also quilted (Mom did more whole-cloth quilts than pieced ones). Only me and one other of my sisters have the quilting bug (so far). I don't know if my paternal grandmother ever quilted, as I was only 5 years old when she passed away.