Anthea's quilting story

Are you all sitting comfortably? Now I'll begin. This is my first blog in my story.
I've been married to Gary since 20th October 2001 and I have 3 children Chris, Gemma and Natalie.
I have had an interest in 'stitch' since I was at school but started muddling around trying to make quilts when my youngest Nats was a toddler. I bought a book called Through the year with SunBonnet Sue. To be honest I didn't have a clue what I was doing and just 'muddled along.' Instead of producing two quilts, one for each of my daughters, I produced a bag of attempts!
I kept the idea in the back of my mind for about 10 years until, when I enrolled at Manchester Uni as a mature student in 2004. We were told that in the second year we would have to make an accessible personal profile so that people who can't read could learn about us and so I resurrected the idea of through the year with SunBonnet Sue tailoring the blocks to represent my life. I put it together with about a minute to spare, I bound it in class on the hand in day! but didn't have time to quilt it, so it has stayed in that state, folded inwards to protect it from the sun and laid accross the bottom of my bed for the last 4 years.