Welcome from Germany/Kansas! I'm going to be staying with my sister during the transition in the northwest corner of Illinois, we love going up to Milwaukee/Madison/and the all important New Glarus! LOL. In August there will be a speaker named Claudia Pfeil...a great longarm quilter. I don't have all the details, but she's wonderful and it's worth looking in to. :)
I also rip out the pages on the quilt magazines and save them as TIPS, WANT TO DOs, and QUILTING DESIGNS (I'm a longarm quilter) :)
Anyways, WELCOME again!