Here's my very first quilt. I bought a kit while on vacation when I was in my 30's. I did it all by hand from the piecing to the quilting. Didn't have a clue to what I was doing. I just outlined the pattern & whipped stitched around the little boy. It took me years, because I would get sick of it & put it away in a closet for months. I finally finished it, but decided that quilting was not for me. (It now lays at the end of a bed in our guest room.) In a very snowy winter a couple of years ago I got the quilting bug and decided to try machine quilting. Now I'm hooked on quilting.