My daughter saw the ad for the local quilt guild in the paper. He dad was answering an ad for something else and she happened to see the paper by the phone. She wanted to make a quilt. She was 10 and I wasn't into quilting. I called the local group and they said that they would take any age as long as they wanted to quilt and were interested. I took her and she had completed her first full sized quilt and hand quilted it before she was 12. Then I decided to get on the ball and make and quilt and here i am. She is 35 yrs old now.