Hello everybody!
This looked like a fun place for a quilt addidct to be and I thought I would take a few minutes to introduce myself as well as my love of quilting.
My name is Sheila and I am a 39 year old wife and mother of three children. My oldest son is 12 and I have 6 year old boy/girl twins. I run my own Legal Support services business and while that and kids takes up almost every hour of the day - I find my self sewing when I should be sleeping.
Never having quilted before but I do sew a little, I signed up for a beginners class and I started quilting just last October and I have never looked back or loved anything more...
I realized that while I do many many crafts( scrapbooking, card making, folk art painting) I am only a dabbler in those areas and quilting has become my passion.
In the past year I have finsihed:
1 - lap quilt (that was my first ever class project) Loved it! Learned tons. - Gave to my mother for CHristmas.
1 Rag lap quilt - for my youngest niece's birthday.
2 - Quilt as you go queen size quilts that I gave as wedding gifts (great pattern from the Spring Fons & Porter Easy Quilts magazine - looks like a cheater catherdral window only larger circles) I will try to post pics if I can figure out how.
1 - Wall Quilt - teacher gift that I designed myself from folk art paitning
patterns made into applique - love that I can re-use patterns I already own!!
1 Fall table runner - Gave to one of my sisters with her Chistmas gift
1 Chistmas Stained Glass Wall Hanging from another class I took - very neat techniques learned there too. If you see the trend developing here - I have that away to (my other sister) :D
Ongoing I currently have a queen size Irish Chain - will be a wedding gift next year for my Brother and his soon to be wife as well as a Harry Potter Paper Piecing project I have started for my younger sister who even at 32 years old Loved the book and the movies and we share this with our children so I am excited to work on that for her! :lol:
Not to mention the unexpected love I have discovered I have for handwork - which I swore I would never like - SO I am doing a Nancy Halverson Block of the month quilt at one of our local quilt shops and it has loads of applique that just looks better when the decorative stiching is done by hand. And in an effort to find use for the bits left over from my 2 large circle quilts I have been experimenting with English Paper Piecing - which is all done by hand sewing bits of fabric to Hexegons or similar shapes and then piecing together by hand - this is very relaxing to do in frontof the TV when I want to be productive but just dont want to haul out my sewing machine (small house - no sewing room but that is on my wish list for the next house :) )
I am sure I could go on and on... (trust me I am a born chatter :D )
but I will say goodbye for now and hope only that I can share as much as I learn!
Sheila @---`,---