How did you learn how to quilt?
05-15-2011, 04:50 AM
#61
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Live in Michigan, but I'm in Heaven when in my sewing room
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Just dived right in. Kids were all older so I was no longer sewing there clothes and I wanted something different to do. So glad I did. I love the creativity of it all!!
05-15-2011, 05:04 AM
#62
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Daphne, AL
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I taught myself how to do basic quilting. Finally convinced an expert quilter to look at what I was doing and evaluate - which she reluctantly did. She must have liked what she saw because she loaned me lots of books and started sharing info with me - invaluable.
05-15-2011, 05:14 AM
#64
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Duluth/ Superior, WI
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Mostly self taught, when I started there were no classes and no one in my family quilted. Made a small baby quilt back in the 60's for a home sewing project in school. In the very early 80's talked my grannie into taking a class with me at the local quilt shop (turned out to be a sampler and all by hand). From there it's been knowledge from books, trial & error (lots of that), other quilters, the quilting board and just the desire to learn all I can.
05-15-2011, 05:33 AM
#68
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Arizona
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My mom taught me how to sew on a treadle sewing machine when I was only 5 years old... and I've been sewing ever since. But in 1985 I got hooked on quilts, and now that's the only kind of sewing that interests me. I'm mostly self-taught, but always learning new stuff through books and websites.
05-15-2011, 05:36 AM
#69
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Location: Grand Junction, Colorado
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My mom's cousin taught me how to sew when I was 10. I learned more about sewing in the sewing section of home ec in high school. Her cousin made a lot of quilts but I didn't start quilting until I was 52. Then I just got a book and took it from there.
05-15-2011, 05:38 AM
#70
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About 30 years ago I took a class offered by BOCES adult education. Wonderful, very elderly white haired lady taught it and insisted it all had to be done by hand. When my hands got so bad I couldn't hold a needle anymore I gave it up for many, many years. Finally about 6 years ago I bought a Viking machine and started taking a few classes. It's wonderful to realize that my great-great-grandmother would have done everything by machine if it had been available-LOL.
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