oldbalt99

Each year my mom sewed two sets of clothes for her eight children. Five sets play clothes, school clothes for winter and summer. She had enough material to make a new set on demand. One day At Thirteen I decided to do something with the smaller strips that would never make a set of clothes. And my very first scrap quilt was started. Seeing I was serious about finishing something, my mom taught me how to start and finish a stitch without a knot. She taught me how to use a sewing machine when I was five, and which included color matching, material care and the evils of a tracing wheel. Still when I started putting those scraps together she to straight of grain and scraps. When the top was finished, she gave me a history lessons on quilts and added that when her mother put her quilts together she used ties, or knots, as she names them. I loved my grandmother so I specialize in tied quilts.
I hope I did this right here are two pictures of quilts and they are both tied.

Rose Bagwell

Mainly by myself and watching quilt shows on T.V. Did not take lessons til I was well into it. Just like my gof, I never took a lesson til I was way into it. You can probably determine that I seem to do things backwards. I regret not having taken lessons from the begining, but it has worked out fine for me.

Drew

I learned from a nun. She opened her apartment for lessons. There were about 15 of us. She did everything by hand, but some brave students started to piece by machine. The rest of us soon followed! I wanted to make a quilt for my first child.

aronel

I became disabled, and had always had a desire to quilt. My DGM was a wonderful quilter, unfortunately for me she had passed, so, I bought books, watched shows, taught myself how to sew then went on to quilting - a lot of trial and error.

aronel

I became disabled, and had always had a desire to quilt. My DGM was a wonderful quilter, unfortunately for me she had passed, so, I bought books, watched shows, taught myself how to sew, then went on to quilting - a lot of trial and error.

Thumbelina

A former neighbor wanted to take a class but didn't want to go by herself. WE took a one day class and I haven't looked back since. Then had me hook, line and sinker. If my husband didn't care I'd sew 24 hrs a day, seven days a week.

nanquilt

I went with some of my friends to a LQS and took a class on hand piecing and quilting. Since the hand quilting did not become a favorite of mine, I took classes on machine piecing and quilting. This was about twenty years ago.

stephaniequeen

What a beautiful quilt

drella123

With help of some very good friends,

Cottontop

Bought a book: Lap Quilting by Georgia Bonesteel, collected holiday fabric for eons, then (after retirement) dove right in. Cut the first one out with scissors block by block, triangle by triangle...eventually took 2 classes at lqs. As they say: "I've come a long way since...(I hope)."