Originally Posted by jeanniep
Hi , I am a Raw beginner at patchwork, and I live in Australia
I read up all the tips I can find. I have made my first quilt."out of my head" and it is not too bad, I think! I am 80 yrs. young , so hope I can really stay around to make more !
I admire you for leaning a new craft. I hope you are around to make many more quilts. They say leaning new things and doing something creative helps to stave off Altzhimers so I hope I can keep quilting and learning new things the rest of my life. I have wanted to quilt for a long time but didn't really get started until after I retired though I have been a sewer most of my life. I want to design quilts as well as make them. I am learning to machine quilt but am not really good at it yet. Maybe someday I will be. I also like to hand quilt but though I am not bad, it is a long way from perfect. I hope to get much better at that too.