Thank you for the cheerful welcome! I am really excited about this exchange and the opportunity to meet everyone here! I have been quilting for approx 4 years now and love making smaller projects in addition to quilts. Having dabbled in many different arts and crafts techniques over the years, I found my true passion after visiting a local quilt shop here in Upstate NY and admiring all of the beautiful fabric available today! I have acquired so much fabric that I am afraid that my DH may contact the producers of the new reality show Hoarding..Buried Alive...LOL. On a serious note, it is not that bad...YET, but I have fabric and sewing notions scattered throughout the house and some have made their way into our cars since I started making yo-yo's with my scraps after seeing a beautiful yo-yo quilt pictured on the cover of a magazine... And speaking of cars, my license plate cover reads "Warning This car stops at all Quilt Shops". Hmmmm...Do you think I might have the Quilting Bug?