I started out sewing on a Pfaff 130 that my dad had bought my grandmother. It was passed down to him after she died.
My mom didn't really sew except maybe an occasional mending job. She hates anything to do with sewing. Since my maternal grandma always wore aprons, I decided to make her aprons. I would always beg for fabric every time we went to town. Never used a pattern, just made them. I'm sure they weren't very good in the beginning but served their purpose I suppose, and taught me alot about sewing too.
I sewed in home ec, and then after I married made hubby's shirts, pants, and clothes for my kiddos and myself.
After years of sewing and not tossing scraps, I decided I needed to use them up, so I started quilting with them.
I've read a few magazines, looked at old quilts and just started doing my thing. It seemed to me the hardest part was sandwiching the layers together, trying to get them assembled without having puckers on the bottom. I bought one of those little square thingy's to use to hand quilt with. I hate hand quilting, I wish I could do better at it, but sewing by hand is just not my thing. I learned about free motion quilting and love doing that.
When I retired there were a few quilts that I wanted to do, just because. One was a crazy quilt, which I thought backing it with satin would just be a neat idea. What a pain! It was so very heavy, and the fabrics I used had alot of "stuff" on them that made free motion quilting a royal pain. I ended up having to quilt a lot of it by hand.
Someday, if I get brave I'll post a pic of it. It is beautiful, but the quilting leaves much to be desired because my spray didn't hold, and it shifted. But, it is was it is, and I dare not try to take out the stitches for fear of cutting the fabric.
Hubby decided after this that I needed a quilting frame and bought one for me. Then he saw the limitations of using a standard machine on the frame, and began trying to find a longer arm machine for me, which should arrive this week.
I still have much to learn, but am getting there. Am very excited about getting the longer arm machine.