My grandmother started me sewing when I was very young, 10 or 12. She taught me cross stitch and how to blind stitch. She tried and so did my mom to teach me to crochet, never did accomplish that! I like you really started in junior high with home ec (which they don't teach here anymore), and went from there making my own clothes and then my childrens clothes. Didn't start quilting (even though I'm from a family that all quilted) until my husband retired from the Navy in 1992, but I must be older than you!