sosewcrazy

Me too ClairVoyantQuilter!

farmerswife

I saw how beautiful they were and the colors and patterns. Makes you want to take it and put it on your bed and snuggle down for a long winters nap. My mil does wonderful Quilts and so I had to give it a try. Only made one and that was sometime ago and now the bug has bitten again.

ccthomas

The "Plain and Simple" beautifully pieced and quilted Amish Quilts have always drawn me to want to become skilled in this art. Magazines, books, such as Country Living and Country Home that demonstrated how quilts decorate a home also have inspired me to learn how to quilt. Then living in Kentucky with the Paducah Quilt Show (that I want to attend so BAD) also is an inspiration. Skilled - not yet, but I want to quilt.

krisgray

I did it when I was a kid/pre-teen b/c my grandma quilted. When I quit my job after 2 miscarriages to de-stress and concentrate on starting a family, I started hand piecing just like I had with Grandma. My husband would call me and ask me how many blocks I had done b/c he knew it calmed me down and kept me even thru the fertility treatments. It's still a way for me to get lost from the day and regroup.

LAQUITA

My grandmother taught me to quilt YEARS ago when I was about 12. I have not done any quilting until now.

wE have a daughter with special medical needs and I wind up spending WEEKS every year at the hospital with her. It got to be too much hauling scrapbook material up to the hospital all the time.

THEN I had a friend suggest I start quilting and and that I could hand quilt my blacok MUCH easier at the hospital. SO this is how I got into it.

LaQuita
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Ruby Y Campos

I always thought I was born quilting. My early memories are sitting next to my mom with the large quilt in the frame which took up most of the living room in our old farm house. So as a result I really learned to hand quilt before I taught myself the piecing. I still love the hand quilting, but realize there are other ways of getting projects finished. If I have a 'heirloom' quilt I will take it back to Iowa and have a quilting shop there arrange to have it Amish quilted. For my grandchildren's quilts I will machine quilt (or have it machine quilted) since they are laundered a great deal. Small projects I still like to hand quilt. I went through the period of making most of my own clothes, made clothes for my daughter and now only sew quilt related items: wall hangings, table toppers, table runners, placemats, etc. Sewing has indeed been good therapy for me. I can get lost in my sewing room and forget everything else. Ruby Y Campos

weezie

I've sewn for over 50 years, but really got interested in making more professional looking clothing in the early 1980's. My wardrobe (mainly for my secretarial job) was very sparse. I wanted to make clothes to wear to the office that did not look dorky & home made so I started watching all the sewing programs on t.v. that I could find to watch. As well as learning loads of helpful tips, I learned what notions would be helpful and how to best use them. Somehow watching the sewing shows (mainly Sewing With Nancy) branched out to include quilting shows. There were a lot of excellent quilting shows on t.v. at that time (1980's & '90's). Now I don't have access to any in this viewing area.

In addition to making clothing, I made a lot of dolls. When I quit working in the mid-90's, I quit making clothing, continued to make dolls and started to make quilts. The quilt making has since shoved the doll making totally out of the picture. As it is, I need to live to be about 150 years old (and be active and creative) to make all the quilts I want to make.

P.S.: I'm not sure I'm getting any better at this hobby. Each quilt top I make is quite different from any others I've done, so creates a whole new playing field and new frustrations.

jayelee

In 1981 my husband bought me a sewing machine for our first anniversary I didnt sew but he thought my mother did so I should i learned to make doll clothes and dolls but in 2002 I had a heartattack at 42 years old and the doctor said I needed a destresser So I decided that maybe it was time to get serious with my sewing machine I picked up some fabric saw a quilt pattern that i fell in love with and decided to make it smaller Lost my heart to little quilts

Ms. Shawn

Sounds Great do you have pic of your studio? :mrgreen:

Ruth Ann Ridgeway

I began two years ago when my daughter told me she wanted me to make her one for Christmas. I had two weeks to get it made and made one for her, my other three kids, and almost finished a king size one for a friend plus made one for my bed for Christmas, then I got busy for the rest of the winter and finished about eight more. It was one thing to sew clothing and be done with a piece in a day, but I had to do a quilt in a day to be able to get home with everything before Christmas as I teach and live in SD then then travel to MO for Christmas.