I have been sewing since I was 8 or 10 years old. We used to play with moms sewing machine and make doll clothes etc. I sewed clothing for years. I thought about quilting but never did one. My mom was making purses and I decided to make one. I went to buy purse fabric. I looked at it laying on my sewing machine and for some reason decided it looked like quilt fabric. I went to a quilt shop and found a pattern. My first quilt was a paper pieced quilt out of the 50 paper pieced stars book. It is a queen sized.