My step-daughter will be off to college next year, so we gave her a sewing machine last C-mas so she will be able to at least do her own repairs/alterations. (she and her brother have both brought them to me for the last 7 years) I am hoping that she may find her way to quilting one day.

That's something I never thought about until you brought it up.

We quilters just have the best time with each other - and age has never

seemed to enter into it. If I didn't look in the mirror every once in a while

I'd still think I was way under 40!

I was 21 when I made my first quilt. My DIL is 29 and has been quilting for 6 years. I teach young ladies to quilt. My 17 year old student just finished her first quilt. When she started taking classes from me it was for garments. I wanted her to try quilting so she can have a taste of all types of sewing. I think her two older sisters have put in quilt orders.

I just leaped over the 5-0 mark..a little, but I started quilting at 47...I told my Dad..he said..."why learn that, its an old lady thing and you aren't that old yet".. :roll:

I've always worked with my hands..crochet, knitting, cross-stitch, etc..since in my teens. I'm really glad to see folks younger than me to keep the craft alive...but its so much fun, I can't imagine it dying out!

I am 37 and I started 6 years ago and I have completed over 30 quilts of various sizes. No kidding its hard to quilt when you have small kids...lots of quilters ask me if I hand quilt and I may get an hour a day so I feel I have to get the most out of that hour or two...so it is machine quilting all the way...good luck finding someone your age in your area...

I'm 33 and have been quilting only for a few years. My sisters call it an old lady hobby! I tell them atleast I HAVE a hobby!

dear i'm past forty an runnig to fifty real fast but I started quilting back when I was in high school.An have cut out more quilts than I have put together I cutsquares for my mom to put together.There was about twenty or thiry thousand squares.an that was back when you cut them out by hand an I still have the scares on some of my fingers from the blisters Igot from cutting all of them out.I was pregnant an it was something to do that kept me out of trouble.When I moved out mom still had squares to sew together.she did a bunch of tops up an just sold the tops back then for like twenty or thirty dollars a piece.anshe had a whole bunch of them.She hand quilted any that she done.

I am 34 and I may be the youngest in my guild, but age has never entered into it either. We have lots of fun!!! I love spending time with people with the same interests as myself.

Kids aren't the only ones with a thing about quilting. I'm 58 and started quilting in my mid 30's. I was divorced and whenever I would meet a man and we would talk about our interests, I could almost see their eyes glaze over when I mentioned quilting. To them quilting = boring and old. I think it's societal and kids just know what they're taught.

I'm 27, and been quilting properly for about 3 years.

My BF teases me about it being an old lady hobby too, but I've seen the age of some of the men he golfs with! I'm not sure you can ever be too young or too old to take up a hobby.