Retired teacher?
How many of us are retired teachers who love quilting? I knew I wasn't an artist when my 1st grade teacher held up my purple orange juicer as a bad example. In college I would never have taken an art class if it weren't required. I fell in love with my first color wheel, became a professor teaching interior design and all levels of sewing, too. And lots about color!
I became serious about sewing when I needed maternity clothes, had very little money, but could buy fabric for 39 cents a yard. I took classes in adult school, then in college. Now I'm thinking of making a small art quilt of a purple orange juicer.
What's your background, and what brought you to sewing/quilting?