An age for quilting????

[RobinQuilts]

When someone makes a dig at my quilting passion, I just say I'm happier quilting then you are not quilting. I don't exactly know what that implies but it sure keeps the (goober's) mouth closed. :wink:

[MamaBev]

I am in my mid 50's and have been quilting off and on for about 20 years. Intensively for the last 6. One of my best quilting friends is my son's girlfriend, who just turned 21. I am so jealous of her as her Grandma started teaching her to quilt when she was about 6 years old. So we quilters come in all shapes, sizes and colors - just like our quilts.

[MamaBev]

I think it is so wonderful that quilting has become such a popular, universal and ageless art form! What a marvelous way for people to connect, to learn new talents and share them, to express themselves and find satisfaction and joy! I've met some of the dearest people through this activity. Quilting is my passion, as it is for so many. It has nothing to do with age, and the more people can see the fruits of our labors, the sooner they will realize we are "ROCKIN" and not in chairs! Go Quilters!

[MamaBev]

When I was younger I wouldn't touch a sewing machine, it wasn't an age factor it was a "girl" thing. I'm a tomboy, still love to wear my boots.

But, now, I love quilting...love piecing by hand, I'm 50 now...been hand piecing for about 10 years.

However, my neice, who is 10, must be older than dirt, and younger than rock by heart, because she's been quilting her little heart out.

And she does a great job of it too.

[MamaBev]

I'm 47, my daughter is 23 and in law school, and she just started quilting last year. She said she felt like her "creativity" was being stifled with all the book work, and she needed a creative outlet. I'm so happy she chose to try quilting.

[MamaBev]

I started quilting in my late 30's. My family all think I'm nuts :lol:

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[MamaBev]

Age is just a number. Why worry about how old or how young.
If you enjoy your craft, then why care?
Let me say this: when you reach a certain age of what I is called the 'third age' of life...all expectations of what you can and should do go out the window. I always use my my 91 year old mother in law...yes 91. She still lives independently (OK in a senior complex but has her own apt). Plays bridge 3 times a week, swims...yes swims 3 times a week. She also handles her own money and investments. She loves to discuss politics and has an interesting perspective on life and events. Also she is never HOME...always on the go.
So if you are young or more senior...if you enjoy the craft just simply say 'you should try it'.
Life is too short to junk up your creative mind with something so silly as a number.

FW (who is trying to track down her Mother In Law)

[MamaBev]

My Mom will be 87 in August. She lives in a Senior apartment building in Corpus Christi, TX. She's still doing water aerobics 3 times a week, and works out on the weight machines at the gym there about 3 times a week. The other residents see her zipping around the building with her Helios oxygen container on her belt, and want to know what octane she's got in that little tank :lol: . She also still makes her own bathing suits, since the suits nowadays don't cover areas she prefers to have covered--she hates the bottoms being cut so that they come up really high on the hips, and the backs going down too low. When she moved down here a year ago, her sewing machine got broken, so we found her a little Janome Gem Gold. It's light enough that she can move it around easily herself, and has the right stitches for sewing her bathing suits, too. She's also been doing a bit of mending and hemming for the other folks in the building--she tells them no, she doesn't take money, but they can send a check to the Humane Society. She's never quilted, though.

I did find out that my paternal grandmother did make quilts. Only one has survived to the present day--it belongs to one of my cousins in California. I've asked my aunt to see if he might be willing to send me a photograph of the quilt. She said the other quilts all got worn out, as they were used on the beds when she was a kid.

Pat in Rockport, TX

[lindaquilter]

I'm 51, and my daughter is 22, and she quilts more than I do now!! So it's a hobby for all ages. Your friend just does not appreciate your art form, too bad for her. Enjoy and keep looking for those quilt stores!

[lindaquilter]

My son started quilting at 4. No one told him it was an old lady hobby, apparently. :wink:

Lisa

[lindaquilter]

I started my first quilting experience at 20, dropped it to make clothes for the kids but am so glad that I have started in agian.

I also used to get the funny jokes about quilting, but after i started makeing quilts for friends whose husbands have passed, using their shirts and pants for the fabrics, and embroidaering names and places on them the jokes have stopped.
They are now appreciating the time and effort that goes into what I do. I am the only quilter in a world of golfers.

[lindaquilter]

I am the only quilter in a world of golfers.

I know what you mean, only here I am the only quilter in a world of musicians :lol:

[dfrank27]

I am the only quilter in a world of golfers.

I know what you mean, only here I am the only quilter in a world of musicians :lol:

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[dfrank27]

One of her guitar quilts was published as a pattern, in a Quilting Arts calendar. My husband has been doing a series of them! He loves quilt shows, too.

[dfrank27]

just saw this thread and had to reply i am 37 and have been quilting for for about 4 years before that i did crossstitch, knitting, crochet, about any needlearts hobby you can think of i dabbled in i started sewing when i was about 11 or 12 in 8th grade home ec class. i thought i was the only one my age also when i started taking classes because everyone was my moms age or older but i have found out differently being on here. and i have to say that in all honesty many of the pics of those who post here look amazingly young so either you all are lying about your ages or quilting has some sort of fountain of youth qualities to it so maybe more people should try it instead of the nip/tuck method of controlling your age. by the way my mom quilts and sews also and many people including my sis who doesn't are jelouse of the close relationship that we have.
gives everyone something to think about huh!