When I got married my first buy was a sewing machine. I had moved to a new district to start my married life and there was nobody there I knew who could run up curtains for me ( no ready mades then).
From there on I made my summer frocks and when the family came along I made them dresses too. Of couse, there was masses of left over bits of material and eventually that lead on to quilt making.
Today, it is much more difficult to track down materials, and clothes have become cheap enough to buy and even throw away, so quilt making has become more of an art.
qilts in Scotland were made to keep us warm in bed and were generally lined with an old blanket or equivalent, and used in place of the modern day duvet. Life now, has changed and moved on, for the better? That is another topic for discussion!