thanks for the nice compliment. no, i have not been making quilts for yrs. remember my grandma doing it tho, and getting blue ribbons at the fair. but yes, i have been sewing since i was l6. and taught 4-h sewing a couple yrs. and they took their stuff to the fair, and were 'judged'. and i had a stickler for a home ec teacher yrs ago. the quilt's believe it or not are all 'easy' patterns. or just a notch above that. been quilting about 10 yrs 'this time'. and i am still leaning stuff all the time. there for a while, when i made a quilt, i did something i hadn't done before. and i tell myself, it's suppose to be a hobby. don't kill yourself. 'we are suppose to be injoying this.'