well, I think I have shared this before, but, just in case...:mrgreen:
I have been sewing since age ten...clothing, home dec stuff.
Lots and lots of clothes for my girls and dresses for myself for church.
I had not been around quilts much, so my perspective was they were hodge-podgey and didn't capture my interest.
I loved the one my grandmother made for me, but was too busy sewing for my girls to even think about quilting.
It wouldn't have worked out very well way back then.
There were five of us living in a small house. My sewing space was
1-drag my machine to the dining table.
2-oldest left home, got a space about 4' x 9'
3- another left home, but we got a computer etc. so i just moved my stuff, didn't gain any room.
4-last dd got married and I got an 11'x15' sewing room, finally.
I have been disabled for many years and some things flare, so when I got the room, I wasn't ABLE to quilt.
Then, when I began to feel better, I had a conversation with my grandmother that used to have her own craft store.
She was teaching her senior citizen's group how to make a wall hanging. As she described it in detail, I really got into talking about the fabrics and she encouraged me to try a small project.
So I bought a quilting magazine. I have so many now, I'm not sure I would know which one it was, but I have them in chronological order, so my guess would be the oldest one ;)
It opened up a whole new world, but the clicker was, the moment I realized that sewing garments usually took one or sometimes two fabrics.
Quilting could require many cuts of different fabrics in all kinds of colors and patterns...WOO HOO...I was hooked.
It was like being told instead of buying one candy bar, you need to take a bag and go fill it up with a bunch of different kinds and they are going to look fantastic together.
I will never be a one bar girl again :mrgreen: