I started quilting in my early 40's (I'm 50 now), right about the time my hormones started to get weird. Designing and quilting and fabric and new ideas just flat consume me. I see designs and color combinations everywhere. This obsession has saved my sanity I think. The crazier my hormones get the more I concentrate on the quilts. I think it keeps my family safe from me! DH is all about making one of the now spare bedrooms into a quilting room cuz he knows I need alot of solitude these days. Kids are leaving for college-big change in our lives. Quilting gives me something consistant that I have total control over.

Wow-I wrote an essay...that wasn't the plan, but it got me through another hot flash!

Sherry

I remember once getting an email from a gal who had recently started quilting and was consumed by it - she was seriously concerned about her mental state - FOR REAL - my response was "welcome to the club"

I'm a school teacher, and in my summer months off I just love to make quilts and work uninterrupted on the many projects I have in various stages of completion. Yesterday my grown son called to say that he suggested that he and my husband do an "intervention" for my quilting habit. He thought he was being cute but I didn't think so. I told him he should be proud of the work I do. He says he is, but he really doesn't mean it. I know he doesn't "get it" and neither does my husband really. Fortunately, I'm able to ignore them most of the time.
Barbara