Such a blessing to you and the spouses you mentor!

Started about 2 years ago and enjoy quilting very much. Over the hill plus 10 and 9

I just turned 30, but i started sewing when I was in high school. I made a quilt for my little brother as a project in home ec. Thats what started it all. I tried signing up for a home ec class that was all sewing ,but apparently I was the only one that signed up for it so i had to choose a different class. I was sad for weeks.
I think home ec classes should be mandatory. They teach you alot. I found out a couple years ago that they elimanated the home ec department at the school I went to. Now where are the kids going to learn about cooking, sewing, balenceing a checkbook?

I am 65 and have only been quilting about 10 years. I wish I had started when I was 20.

So funny, but you're right. Some of us older ladies do other things besides quilt. I black powder shoot, I camp, row a personal pontoon boat and I also enjoy riding ATV's. So no, we're not old. Age is just a number.

So many of us don't have the time to quilt when we're busy raising a family of youngsters and have to save such fun projects until they all go off to school and some of our time belongs to us again

OOps too old, but good luck.:)

Been quilting since I was 32 and the longer I do it the more I love it:) I'm 68 years old now.
My daughter has been doing it since she was 20 and still loves it!!!!

My granddaughters are both making a quilt top and they love it. One is 18 and the other is 20. The 20 year old has fabric purchases for the next quilt that she is making for her friend that is getting married. I think she is addicted. She shows all the signs. Their Mother, My daughter is 46 and she has just become addicted to quilting since January. One other granddaughter like to piece wiith me, and is 13.

I'm about to learn how to Quilt,!! I'm 70, but I often display old womanish traits!!! ... ... Hmmmm ??

I started quilting at 47 when my youngest child went to college. I've been sewing since I was 10 years old and wanted to start quilting in my early 20's but the children came along and life got busy. I continued doing "regular" sewing projects until I had the room and time for this great hobby!

When myson was young he said doing dishes was girls work and I told him it was the work of whoever was doing it. He is glad now that I taught him girl things.

I'm 48, but my 21 year old daughter has gone to quilting classes with me and she likes it. I think when her life slows down a little...she will join us :) I watched my mom do it for years... I wish I had taken an interest while she was still here.

I just turned 32 and have been quilting for about one year. I learned how to sew when I was a kid, just getting back into it now.

Mid 50's here (I forget the exact number :cool: ) - My DD said the same thing a number of years back (I forget when too)
Seems like the 'age' is getting younger and younger!

There are old women and old quilters but there is no correlation.

I'm 45, but feel 25, and I just started to teach myself to quilt. My mom who is proudly 66 never quilted a day in her life; nor do I remember my grandmothers quilting, they but crocheted. So your "friend" can just believe whatever he wishes. This is a great hobby and he should be so lucky to enjoy one of your creations!!

I helped other people quilt, but had never done one myself start to finish until I turned 69. So age is not a thing that anyone can use here. Yes an old dog can learn new tricks.

53 and definitely not "old." I don't think sensible people connect a craft with age anymore, nor skill with age anymore.

I'm 27 and I started quilted quilting when I was 23.

I may be an "old lady " now, but I have been quilting for 25 years. I am 50's now.

I'm 19 and love to quilt.

Drat, you waited way to long to ask me.!

Well I will be 70, Aug 3rd..I am not old...but the body wants me to think that but I refuse to listen.. .LOL My grandson made a quilt last year when he visited in the summer..he was 11..he's back and he might want to do another one..after he gets back from church camp..my mom quilted all our lives and she was 93 when we lost her...My two daughters love them but hasn't taken up making them..too busy taking care of family...I have a niece that is very interested in quilting..she has made her two oldest boys their t-shirt quilts..for Christmas she got a rotary cutter and mat and a ruler..so she is getting prepared...she just turned 39..I think she will probably get all my things when I'm gone...but I hope to have all my fabric made into quilts before then..I made 11 quilts last year..and already making some now...I love it and don't intend to stop any time soon..just need to slow down on buying....LOL big enough stash already...well maybe not...

Tell your friend that quilting is not just for "old ladies". While I am an older (not old!) quilter, I have many young friends in my quilt guild, quilt club, sewing club and Project Linus group. Quilting is a creative outlet that attracts women and men of all ages. It is time for your friend to join the current century.

I am thirty and I love to make quilts. I have made quilts for all my four babies starting back when I was 20. I sew all my own dresses as well as for my three girls.

Our 4-H kids quilt!
 

And they are only 10 in many cases! In fact, it was their projects that inspired me to start quilting after I retired.

I started quilting when I was 35. I am 39 now, so still pretty newb, but I know many younger people who quilt. I think the sheer # of responses here should be enough for your pal to eat some crow! :)

I'm 34 and started quilting when I was 21.

I suspect that some of the 'old ladies' label comes from the fact that people have more time to do what they want (whatever that is) once they retire. Plus women have 24/7 occupation with house and kids, so for much of their lives they don't get to have hobbies in the same way that men do (yes, I am making vast generalisations here, but as a general rule...). So OK, the kids grow up and leave. The house is still there, but the retirement-age women I know seem to decide that there is more to life than having a perfect house (I agree!) and/or insist that hubby take on his fair share of house-chores when he retires which allows them to have more free time to quilt. Or paint. Or dance. Or scuba dive. Or whatever.

I agree with you. I'm 58 and I'm not old and my daughter who really loves to quilt but is still learning is only 23. She'd really take offense at being called an old women even though with two young kids there are days when she feels like it.

I'm an old woman (will be 72 in August) and I quilt. I quilt because I love it and because I now have the time to do it, not because I'm old. When I was young I sewed clothes for myself and my two daughters. I was a teacher and when I wasn't planning lessons, grading papers, preparing visual aides, driving children to ball practices, dancing lessons, and the rest of the stuff that moms do, I was volunteering at the church or taking care of my home. Now, I quilt when I want to and I keep house when I want to, or drop everything and hit the road with my retired DH; but mostly I quilt. You can tell your "friend" that he's got a lot to learn about "being old." :D

I started quilting in my 40s. One of my daughters started at age 8, there are men quilters in our guild, one was the president of the guilt for 2 years!

We visited my husbands daughter yesterday for a birthday celebration, and his granddaughter came by - she's in her twenties. She showed me a darling lap quilt she had made for her mother. She just recently got her sewing machine, and has been making quilts and purses and all kinds of things in her spare time. So there - it's simply fun for anyone!

I'm 43 and I started my first quilt top at 20.

Am 52 and enjoying quilting with a vengenace and passion. The only sad note is that I started only at 41. Two DDs entered quilts and won competitions with bed-size quilts at the age of 17 and 18. Our quilting group also has some 30-somethingsand 70-somethings and we are all bound together by the love of quilting. One of my dreams is to retire early and start a quilting group for under 30s.

I'm "old" now at 57, but I've been quilting since I was 15. I do other "old lady" crafts such as crochet and knitting.

I am 34 and love to quilt...it is a bit of an obsession. I am the youngest member of my quilt group, but never feel out of place.

I'm 48 - made my first quilt in my early teens. I guess I'm an old soul :)

37 and have been quilting for about 10 years or so.

I have taught very young children how to quilt for several years the 2 youngest were only 5 years old. Girls and boys alike want to create. Many have several quilts they have made. One learned a lesson on maklng Yo-Yos and then turned around and taught another boy to make them. Never underestimate children. I made my first quilt at age 10 years old. So let him know there are many young quilters out there of both sexes. Marvel