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    Old 03-23-2011, 06:57 AM
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    Well, you are 2 years ahead of me!! :)
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    Old 03-23-2011, 07:15 AM
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    I'm just learning to quilt at 70!!!! And I have 365 days every year....That IS a lot of time....You have lots of quilting in your future!!!! (((Hugs))))
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    Old 03-23-2011, 07:17 AM
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    I had to lauagh when I read your message. I feel exactly the same way. After reading the responses that have been posted, I feel much better knowing I have so much company. I started quilting at 63 &have been obsessed with it ever since. I can hardly wait to get to the next one. I have make quilts of all sizes, table runners and toppers,and a couple bags and pillow cases. Bargello, machine piecing and quilting. I am a member of a Bee and a Guild.

    I really appreciate the advice to ENJOY each project. Isn't that the purpose after all?
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    Old 03-23-2011, 07:28 AM
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    You are young! This past fall, at age 75 I started quilting. So far, I've made 5 quilts and each was very different. I am working on free-motion quilting and getting better with each practice. I hope to be quilting for many more years. I want to someday get around to making a quilt for myself.
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    Old 03-23-2011, 07:40 AM
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    Oy my gosh. I'm 56 and I don't feel i have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel yet! I learned to quilt in 2008 and my family is smaller. Still, each one has a quilt already and now i'm running out of people to sew for. I'm working on "fringe" friends and relatives now. You still have decades of life left. Plenty of time. Don't sweat it--just have fun.
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    Old 03-23-2011, 07:41 AM
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    I quilt with an 82 year old and she hasn't slowed down a bit. Even having a heart attack at the shop didn't stop her. A couple of weeks later she was back at it again. So keep on keeping on!!!!!!
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    Old 03-23-2011, 07:58 AM
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    LOL,, I would suggest making the tops and sending them out to be quilted. That's what I do now and I get many more out that way!
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    Old 03-23-2011, 08:10 AM
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    Originally Posted by susanwilley
    I really wish I had started quilting years and years ago. I feel like I have wasted so much time.
    I started quilting 2 years ago and have only made 1 king and 2 baby quilts. Now I have so many loved ones I want to make quilts for. I'm 57 and it takes me so long to finish a quilt that I feel at my age I am running out of time and I will never be able to make a quilt for all of them. I am finishing up my son's quilt and still have another daughter I need to start one for, not to mention the 6 grandkids that want one . And my DH, can't forget DH. I have another baby quilt to do and my sister-in-law wants me to make one for her. I love that someone would want something that I have made, I just hope that I can get them all done before I get really old and unable to sew.
    Is that silly or what?? LOL
    I feel the same way. :-)
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    Old 03-23-2011, 08:13 AM
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    susanwilley I feel the same way. I started I think early of last year and I am 65 and sometimes I come back here too try too make another square and my heart gets too flopping around and I tell myself you will never get the first quilt top done in time for anyone. But I might cause even though I have a bad heart other parts of me are bad, I ain't gonna leave this old world till the GOOD LORD gets ready for me. I just get confused on how to do things and then I quit/

    Clem55 in your avatar you certainly don't look like 72. You go girl!!!
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    Old 03-23-2011, 08:21 AM
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    Not funny at all ..... I'm am right there with you! ... Hand quilting is what I have been doing for the last few years, and the out-put is minimal .... I KNOW machine quilting would be faster, but somehow or other I have not been able to just jump right in on that yet .... my machine is old and reliable, but the "old" is the better part of that combo :-)

    Keep at it .... I think slow-and-steady will win out in the long run.
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