granniegg

Yup, that is the best advice you can give anyone: Read, Read Everything!
Words bring in the world to you.

Pats8e8

My cousins all quilt and they invited my daughter and myself to make blocks for a family quilt. Ours were the strangest blocks of the group! I signed up for a class at the local college but it was all hand quilting. Meantime I saw a Quilt in a Day demo and was sold. I started with those and went on from there. Now I teach the quilting classes at the same college and have for 25 yrs. now.

Letty

Hi,I started with English hexigon patches after a friend got me started.Then I moved to Yorkshire and we were in the middle of ripping out the house and garden ,the place needed everything upgrading.While waiting for workmen to get started I went to a patchwork class. I suppose it was good that it got my interest going but there were far too many in the class and the tutor had friends attending and they seemed to get all the attention. I was hopeless at maths and and sewing so felt rather lost,plus at that time ,in England, cutting mats and rotary cutters were very new and hard to obtain items. However at the age of fifty I discovered a new and wonderful art.We started with the Roman stripe design and I made my own interpretation of it and was told'Oh there is always one in every class !!'After that I bought books and magazines and used my imagination.What a world opened to me,I have made friends and passed on what I have learnt to others.When I have taught I always remember how I felt in that class, and it has given me patience to encourage others.Now the wonderful and generous people I meet on the web help to share ideas,designs etc.Thank you all.

JoanneS

I did - someone brought a group of Appalachian quilters to CT in 1973 or '74. I made a Dresden plate block and was smitten! My friend who went with me never finished her block and still isn't smitten. I guess I should make her a quilt. I made one for her GD, but not one for her yet.

nana2

My first exposure to quilts was at a very very early age when my mother, aunts, grandmothers, greatgrandmother made quilts from feed sacks for warmth in the winter. They traded fabrics, patterns, quilt frames (that hung from the celing) The people who delivered the feed to our farm helped the women get the feed for that week in matching sacks (and I remember the men being very kind with their help, sometimes even expressing how much they liked a certain pattern. This was during World War II and times were difficult. Our town didn't have a fabric store. I remember when all of these ladies learned of the "double blanket". That's when the quilting stopped. Many years later when I was grown with my own family my grandmother passed away (my father was an only child). The grand kids shared a lot of my grandmother's things. One of the things I got was a quilt top of Dutch Dolls. A few years later an old gentleman from church made me a quilting frame that hung from the celing. My mother and her sisters and sister-in-law came to my house and we hung the frame from my garage celing, had a pot luck lunch, and they taught me to hand quilt. Each one of these ladies had their own special way of making their stitches a lot of tales about times past. Of course I still have that quilt and from that day a couple of these ladies began making quilts again. One aunt got all of her grandchildren a quilt made before she passed away. My mother always thought quilting was just too much work. Now she would climb on a ladder and trim trees or clean out the gutters, but she was not interested in quilting. I suppose the short answer here would be YES I did have a quilting class before I began quilting. I just wanted to share this wonderful memory with other quilters. In addition to this day, I watched every quilting show I could find while I was still working and after I retired, I have found time to pursue this wonderful art.

Jeannie

I did.

Linsoblu

I tried quilting after seeing my sister in law do a few. I did a simple 5" block different colors she told me what I did wrong like binding it before I tiring it together. I liked it so after we moved here to Dubois,Wyoming I took a class in town. The teacher turned out to be the President of my now quilters Guild. I learned so much from that class and now if I run into something I do not know I have 40 some great ladies to help me. Best part I hated sewing when I was younger funny how things change.

boomwooshblahh

I'm taking one right now at my university. Best part about it is I get humanities credit for it too! I helped make a donation baby quilt through my church back a few years ago, but besides that I had never quilted before this class... had sewn a little, but that's about it. I love quilting so much now, just wish I had more time for it.

nellie

yes i did and got hook right away ,i started with a pattern called trip around the world by eleanor burns my hero ,and still love making quilts

Pam S

Sounds like you met one of the Quilt Police. I always heard they were out there someplace.