I began quilting while still in college and then let it go for many years when life got in the way(kids, jobs, etc.)And then again when my second husband said he would like to have a double wedding ring quilt and was amazed at the prices for a hand quilted quilt. It took 15 years to actually get it completed, again life just got in the way. Then it became a way for me keep going when I was going through chemo(breast cancer) I could still feel like I was doing something while I was off work and I had accumulated quite a stash by then, from my grandmother, my step mother, my girlfriend's grandmother, yada yada yada! I've always stayed busy with some kind of needlework, knitting, crocheting, counted cross stitch; but found returning to sewing was my first love; I have the quilt my great-grandmother made before she married in 1881 and the comforter my grandmother made in the 50's.