dear i'm past forty an runnig to fifty real fast but I started quilting back when I was in high school.An have cut out more quilts than I have put together I cutsquares for my mom to put together.There was about twenty or thiry thousand squares.an that was back when you cut them out by hand an I still have the scares on some of my fingers from the blisters Igot from cutting all of them out.I was pregnant an it was something to do that kept me out of trouble.When I moved out mom still had squares to sew together.she did a bunch of tops up an just sold the tops back then for like twenty or thirty dollars a piece.anshe had a whole bunch of them.She hand quilted any that she done.