Glenda C.

I started quilting a long time ago. My Mom 2 Aunts and Granny would sit around Grannys old square table, lower the frames from the ceiling and quilt. They could finish one in 1 days. I was around 8 years old and sometime Granny would thread the needle for me and let me quilt, and at first she probably took the stitches out and night and fixed the quilt, but my love for quilding goes back the around the age of 8, now I am 74 and still love to quilt. I have that old square table now in my kitchen. It is 4'x4' and when the leaves in it it is 4'8' [email protected]

Annz

I was living and going to school out in Los Angeles. I was in my early 20s, myself and a few coworkers wanted to take quilt lessons. I took my first quilt lesson from Mary Ellen Hopkins in Santa Monica Calif in her very first quilt shop. She was so much fun. Now she is a renowned quilter, lecturer, designer and probably a lot more. I was so lucky to have had my first lessons with her. We made Christmas placemats and I'm sure a lot more but I cann't remember now.

Ruth Ann Ridgeway

I was asked by my daughter to make her one for Christmas. I had always refused to make a quilt. I didn't want to sit and cut out little squares. I have had so much fun I have a Pfaff hobby quilter and sixteen or maybe ok 20 sewing machines mostly treadle in my sewing room. I teach my sister, and grand daughters to quilt and sew now that I have started this. I had always sewn for survival. School clothes needed outfits for concerts and so on. Now I have tubs of material and enough machines to begin a school. It is all fun and good even though the local joke it it is my sweat shop.

gwena

What and inspirational thing to do...I hope your daughter is doing better. Maybe your love of quilting will rub off on her some day....Its amazing how things work out.

I started quilting just cause I love FABRIC and can't get enough. It was an excuse for me to keep buying more and its also that creative part in me that wants to try to do more and fabric is my medium. I've been like that since I was a very young girl and I am nearing 70

DLM3

I love my story. I have told it here before once. My cousin Ferz (Jennifer) was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 45. She was like a sister to me. I spent a day a week with her (or more) the entire year she was alive. She was so creative and I wanted her to teach me everything she could before she died. We started a quilt in November 2009. She passed away on Christmas Eve 2009. We got as far as pinning the layers together. Since I have made 8 quilts! It is a true gift that she has given me. I am so greatful and think of her every single day while quilting.

Friendly Quilter

I have sewn all my life. My mom one day when we were shopping said that know one ever made her a quilt. Well I could not have that, so I took her over to the magazine rack and pick up a Quilt mag. and told her to pick out a quilt and I would make it for her. I had now idea that they had rotery cutters ,cutting boards, any of the new notions that make quilt life easier. So I did every thing the hard way. I got the quilt made (it took six months) and I was hooked. That was 12 years ago and I have made well over hundred quilts both for family and friends as well as custumers. I have been machine quilting for people for 9 years. But now I really enjoy making quilts for me. But the grandkids, family and friends are always putting in their orders. I LOVE QUILTING.

Linsoblu

I hated sewing when I was younger, so my mother in law got me interested in quilting about 8 years ago and I fell in love with it I guess because it's not making clothes.

kirksmom

gosh, I thought I had put my 2cents in but when I checked the forum, it wasn't there. I needed something to do when our son died. I had seen many quilts and my daughter quilted. So I figured this would help me to ease the pain of his loss. The very first quilt I did, was for my grandson, ( my son's son). He was so proud of that quilt he had to show everyone. I did it all by hand. He still has it to this day. since then, I've made quilts for my grandchildren, great grandchildren and friends. I only kept one and that was a turning twenty pattern.

Butterfly garden

My mother had us help tie comforters when we were preteens, stretching them on Grandma's 1901 home made quilting frame. I made patchwork baby quilts for my children (now in their forties) and just kept going. I still have Grandma's quilting frame and still use it.

cosyquilter

My mother insisted we do a summer project every year, so the year I turned 12 I decided to make a quilt with my grandmother. I chose a Dresden Plate, piecing with circles and triangles then applique. OH, My. Not for a beginner, and grandma was a perfectionist! I had done simple sewing on a old black Singer straight stitch, but never a quilt or anything very complicated. But I finished it and used it for many years until the appliques literally disintegrated...my own children were in their teens by then. Since my retirement, I have gotten a long arm, and am doing custom longarming. Fun... I think my next quilt will be a dresden, just for old times sake.