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Lewis began quilting about 30 years ago when she took a class at a quilt shop just a couple of blocks from her former home in New Orleans. She remembers her instructor as a “dyed-in-the-wool old-time quilter” who insisted that “real” quilts were handmade, so Lewis’ first quilt—which graced her bed for several years—was completely stitched by hand, including the backing. Although she didn’t grow up quilting, her mother taught her to sew as a child and she won a ribbon in the local county fair around the age of 8. “My mother never made a quilt, but my maternal grandmother, as it turns out, was also a quilter,” says Lewis, “so I guess you could say it’s in the genes.”