suzanprincess

Sewing: 55 years Quilting: 9 months
And already have enough stash to last until death do us part! Looking at unemployment in two months, and not unhappy, as it will give me more time to piece and play for a while.

katykwilt

I've been quilting for about 38 years, not sure when I started, but remember leading a group to make a bicentennial quilt to raffle for school equipment. Been sewing for about 55 years. Obsessed with quilting for about 10.

One of the quilt mags ran an article w/survey info on quilters. For the life of me I can't remember which magazine. Anyone else remember it?

AndiR

I think I started around 1982 so that would be 29 years for me

crafterrn1

Well sewing since I was 11 years old ( now 57 ). Making dolss teddy bears and crafts for 18 years with a few quilts during that time. Then quilting full time since the mid 90's. So I guess I have been quilting about 20 years.

CLMQuilter

I have been sewing for 55 years and quilting for over 10 years and am the only persion in my family that is or was a quilter

Mizgoodie

I did my very first piece work quilt when I was 19 and pregnant with my daughter. I actually cut tiny squares, triangles and so on and sewed it all together by hand. That was over 30 years ago and I did not even think of making another quilt, except for a baby quilt when my daughter was 1 year old, until about 10 years ago. Since I retired this last May it is all I want to do now.

CircleSquare

Quilting since 1971. That's 40 years.
I started when I was pregnant with my first child. I was 19 at the time. I had a trunk full of scraps left from the sewing I had been doing since I was 8 or 9, sewing Barbie doll clothes and then my own clothes.
My first quilt was made from a pattern I designed myself: Three 1 1/2" strips sewn together to make a 3 1/2" square. (Now known as a rail fence.)I drew the pattern pieces on old newspapers and cut everything with scissors.
After that, I got ahold of some quilt magazines, and I've never really stopped making quilts. I started photographing them in 1978 and kept an album. Only a few were not photographed, at times when I didn't have a working camera, or couldn't afford the film and developing. :) Now it's all digital!

materialgrl

7 years this time,but dabbled in it for years,but seven years seriously

judykay

I took a couple of classes in the late seventies when you were taught to use sheets as a backing. That did not work out very well but I did a honey bee pillow that I still have. After the sheet backing disaster I didn't do any thing for a few more years, then joined a small group and started up again so I would say about 20 years.

b.bredemeier

40 years, but got obsessed about 5 years ago.