jpthequilter

I am 81 now. When I was three or four my mom would bring me to stay with my grandmother and her sisters who quilted around a dropped-from-the-ceiling quilt frame. They gave me a little stool to sit on amd "my job" was to pick up dropped spools of thread and needles. To keep me happy they gave me a little pile of scraps to play with. One day they noticed me busily "sewing" the scraps together with a needle with "no" thread in it. So they gave me a threaded darning needle to see what would happen. I sewed away handing over little piles of scraps more or less stitched together. Since they matched the colors in the quilt, they would tell me that "my block" would always be the lowest left hand one. They loved fun and were accomplished liars!
It took me a while to grow old enough to realize that they were joking with me....but by that time I really could stitch together pieces into a block.
....although it took me a lot longer to ever get near to their fine stitches.
Jeannie

okiepastor

40 years, but there was a hiatus in there of about 15 years when I did other things---

davis2se

4 years here

taciage

Sewing since I was 5, seriously quilting 7 years...the only quilt I made before that was in High School and I'm not counting it since it was a cross stitch kit. It is a joy-filled therapy!!!

yellowsnow55

21 years of quilting.

Lavada

i helped my mom when i was six sitting under the frame that hung from the cieling but started serious about 47 years ago whem my daughter was born

dakotamaid

Did my first baby quilt for a cousin at age 16, started serious quilting at age 25 and I'm now 60.

marymay

I have been quilting/sewing clothes for 47 years.

MillieMoseley

I think I have been doing it for about 10 yrs but the last 5 I have been into it more.

3incollege

quilting for 11 years