In the mid seventies, I made my mother a quilt. I pieced it together by machine, then I hand quilted it. I had seen my grandmothers quilts and really wanted to create quilts. Shortly after that, I started a family, then worked, and then life got in the way. I have sewn since I was 10 years old on my grandmothers treadle machine. Then my mother got a sewing machine and I used that to sew my school clothes. I earned money to buy patterns and fabric. It was cheap back then. Then when I was 49 years old, I finally started another quilt. Jacobs Ladder. Machine pieced it, King size quilt. Then started to hand quilt, realized it would take took long to do, so I quilted by sewing machine. I didn't start the quilting part until about 17 years later when I retired about two years ago. I recently bought a Cutie frame when it was on sale, and yet to have used it. I bought it because I knew I needed the machine to move freely in comparison to the frame I was using. So now I am wanting to pick the right designs/blocks and design my quilt and get it done. The first quilt is the Ohio star and the second is Jacobs ladder.