Itwas in 1987 when I asked a friend if she would like to quilt - neither one of us had ever done so, but she "yes", so we went to the library first to check out quilting, then to a fabric store to see what we could get. She and I decided that day was THE DAY so we found patterns and materials, went back to my house, threw materials in the washer, ironed the materials, then sat to figure out what in the world we were doing! Ok, made a quilt from many blocks, no sense, but just wanted to do it! From beautiful blocks, i.e. using pencils andcardboard, cut out 12 blocks, sewed them, and finished them -now I realized we must have been kind of stupid - not one was a simple block! But I am so proud of what we did! I'll send apic of it later! taken up enough space on this reply! P.S. I'm hooked!