crafty55

Hi, my name is deborah. I am a life long seamstress (i use to even make wedding dresses!) but this past fall i decided to make christmas quilt gifts. No knowledge except what i picked up online. I got as far as all of the fronts, but without a sewing table extension, I found it to difficult to do the actual quilting part so they got partially made gifts so far. (yes, i shed a lot of tears about that because i worked like a fool trying to get them done in a month!)

I am new to the board, though while looking i went into the challenge thread section, and saw where newbies were looking for quilting angels to help them, so i posted my story there already.

I may as well do it here too, so i am including the pictures of the quilts i made. (the two owl pictures are front and back as i ended up kind of an almost second quilt for the back as i was mixing and matching fabrics to make up the back fabric. (not really a good idea i have found, but oh well, it is going to just be a throw around its chilly quilt anyway.) I started to hand quilt the one for my son (the drinking one) and i am almost done with it. finally getting the hang of the stitches and all, but i really want to do machine quilting. However, being handicapped...the hand quilting has given me something to do while watching tv and such, so i will probably always have a hand quilt to make for now on!

I am an avid crafter, and have taught polymer clay and beading classes through the years. Stopped sewing a few years back when i had an unusual tense summer of picky rich but wanting to spend nothing brides. thats why i am getting back to sewing with quilts, I still get a tummy ache when i think of brides! lol. quilters i have found are amazing talented people who LOVE to share. I am a sponge, I am excited by what I will learn here.

P.s. i STARTED with the crazy quilt, because I knew i had all of those fabrics on hand to use.

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