Am I a quilter?

Is quilting genetic?  I'd like to think that quilting is in my genes.  My great-grandmother made quilts, by hand.  The summer that I was born, she made two quilts.  There was a blue one and a pink one.  My cousin, Amy, was born first.  So, she got the pink one.

For my fifth birthday, my mom, grandmothers, aunts, and a cousin took my Strawberry Shortcake coloring book and used it as a template for a quilt.  They embroidered all of the Strawberry Shortcake characters and a strawberry patch on separate panels and quilted the panels, by had to make me a beautiful quilt for my bed.

For my college art requirement, I enrolled in a quilting class.  We made a sampler quilt that just happened to be the perfect size to cover my nephew, who was a toddler at the time.

Fast-forward 12 years and I am now making an attempt at a full-sized quilt.  When I moved in with my husband, we had a quilt in the living room that his grandmother had made.  It was used quite often and slowly started to get holes and come apart.  I fancy myself to be a crafty person.  But, I couldn't salvage this  quilt.

So, now my friend, Melissa, and I have decided to make quilts.  The sad thing is that we have only been able to get together three times in the last six months, to work on the quilt.  But, she is coming over on Saturday and we will work on as much as we can.  I got excited last night and pulled out the ironing board.  I re-pressed everything.  So, we can just pick up where we left off.

I guess we will find out, when it comes time for the actual quilting, if quilting is genetic.