All young quilters out there...
01-14-2013, 08:41 PM
#193
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: NE Ohio
Posts: 1,384
Hahaha I'm 31 now and I started quilting at 23!! There are also many young MEN out there who quilt...a local kid opened up a shop not far from me and he was only 21 at the time (a few years ago but he's still in his early twenties). Quilting is experiencing an uptrend right now sort of how knitting did in the last decade...it's a GREAT time to be a young quilter!
01-15-2013, 06:49 AM
#195
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Jozefow, Poland
Posts: 4,474
You should send him to some of these blogs and websites, have him take a gander at these "old woman" quilters:
http://greenfairyquilts.blogspot.com/
http://www.quiltingismytherapy.com/
http://www.daystyledesigns.com/aboutme.htm
http://www.designerquilts.com/
Then ask him if he would like some chocolate syrup on those words he now has to eat! LOL
BTW, I have been quilting since I was in my 30's. I am 51 now, so maybe in his mind I am an old woman. I also ride a HarleyDavidson Roadking and have tattoos. So there.
http://greenfairyquilts.blogspot.com/
http://www.quiltingismytherapy.com/
http://www.daystyledesigns.com/aboutme.htm
http://www.designerquilts.com/
Then ask him if he would like some chocolate syrup on those words he now has to eat! LOL
BTW, I have been quilting since I was in my 30's. I am 51 now, so maybe in his mind I am an old woman. I also ride a HarleyDavidson Roadking and have tattoos. So there.
01-20-2013, 07:37 PM
#197
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 16
Another 80s baby here. I'm 31 and been quilting for years. The bonus these days is being able to finance my fabric 'habit' all by myself like a real adult. LOL
None of my friends or family sew. I have been referred to as grandma many times, but they all love it when new babies, weddings, Christmas and birthdays come around. In the process of making sure all my special people have at least one quilt from me.
None of my friends or family sew. I have been referred to as grandma many times, but they all love it when new babies, weddings, Christmas and birthdays come around. In the process of making sure all my special people have at least one quilt from me.
01-21-2013, 06:26 AM
#198
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: CA
Posts: 154
A male friend (?) and I were talking the other day and I told him I quilted and he said only old women quilted. I'm 58 and said I wasn't an old woman and didn't know what constituted an old woman. I told him that women and men of all ages quilted. I said there were many 20 and 30 year old people who quilted. Any of you want to come forward and let yourself be known so I can tell my friend?
04-10-2013, 11:31 PM
#200
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: England Alton Towers
Posts: 6,673
I am over 21 and although a lady of leisure I would not call myself old. Age is a state of mind iam enjoying my present age of (must ask a friend) 64 ? But I feel more like 16, 26. With no responsibility for anyone except myself. I can do what I want when I want, sound like a teenager. Going to quilting classes and listening to their conversations they would make any group of teenagers blush.
Tell your friend there are no old people quilting. Look at the quality of quilts, they are young, full of new ideas and excellent designs etc.
Tell your friend there are no old people quilting. Look at the quality of quilts, they are young, full of new ideas and excellent designs etc.
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