Sheila_H

47 I started last year when I was off on disability I learned to sew when I was about 10 my grandmother taught me. I always loved the quilts and a nurse I worked with was a master at quilting she showed me some of the work she did and I promised myself one day when I had time I'd learn. I've been taking classes since then and love it!

catrancher

2008, when I was 54 years young. I'm even younger now!

MrsM

I think I was 39?

purrfectquilts

Age 7, using scraps from a box of my grandmother's clothes in the attic and a treadle machine in the barn, sitting on a hay bale. Tied quilts at first, using old blankets as the filler.

Aully

I got my first sewing machine when I was 11, I sewed crafts and clothes then, I started quilting when I was 22 which is 2 years ago, I also got a new machine 2 years ago.

blueangel

I started in my 40's.

bloomin'Iris

Just started, real soon to be 55....sigh

tmg

I started sewing at 23. When I worked at a commercial drapery shop. Made some dresses for my girls when they were small.

Started quilting when I was 37 after my oldest daughter could not find anything she liked for bedding for her new bedroom. That was 2 years ago. I have made 10 quilts in those 2 years.

june6995

I have sewn since 1950 but did not make a quilt until after 2000. That would have made me about 66 years old.

I always thought it was something old ladies did. Now I know what I was missing. A ma making up for lost time!

June in Cincinnati

hobo2000

G'ma taught me to sew, emb., and crochet starting when I was 4. Had to wait till I had long enough legs for the treadle. Designed and sewed my clothes for years. Made suits for husband and sons, etc. I started quilting in'88. So around age 50.