Hello from Healesville in Victoria, Australia. I've been reading the board for a while but only just worked out how to comment. You are all so encouraging to each other it is great to see. I belong to a few quilting groups, but at the moment are a bit stale. Fairly new to quilting i spend a lot of time looking at magazines and my fabric not knowing where to start. My avatar has a scrappy quilt my first one all done by hand except the small border which i put in by machine as worried about stretching fabric as lot on bias. I knew nothing about color value or rules of quilting, apparently put stars in wrong position. But i think it turned out ok! Have a few smaller ones that are not bound yet. like the other Aussie will show you when I work out how. Good to be on board finally!

Welcome from Southeastern, PA! USA

Hello & welcome from Michigan! Glad you joined us!

Hi there from Frankston. I am thinking of organising an Aussie get together, are you interested?

Hello and welcome from Ontario, Canada.

Welcome aboard from Georgia

You quilt is lovely. Welcome from Colorado, USA

Welcome!

Your avatar is not very big, but what I can see of it, it looks great. I see nothing wrong with your placement of the stars. Are they string pieced or crazy quilt pieced? They look like the stars might be crazy quilt pieced.
Welcome from southern Oklahoma. You will like us here. We have fun and learn a lot, too.

Welcome from Ireland

Hi there! Welcome from Minnesota,US!

Welcome, good to see more Aussies coming on board.

Welcome from rainy Sunbury(bucketing down). That's a nice part of the world you live in. Everyone here is so nice, and helpful.Got a question, jsut ask.Someone will answer, no matter what time of day/night.
I also see nothing wrong with your placement of stars. As for rules, the only rule I know about quilting, is
there are no rules. Enjoy.

Greetings from New Hampshire
Neat avatar quilt

Yes please, count me in.

Hi rainy day, get together sounds great. ( my son tells me it is too dangerous to meet up with crazy menapausal quiltersthat i meet on line especially from Frankston) I say you only live once, besides i was brought up in Dandenong, which is similar. Passed thru frankston on weekend on way to Dromana, had i known would have waved as i went by :)

Yes the stars are crazy pieced. Put a better pic up soon. Thanks for the welcome.

Thanks for welcome. My husbands family on father's side was from Ireland. I think from County Clare??? Recently had a reunion, where several relatives were out from Ireland. Surname "Reddan"

Will let you know what, where and when Sandy. G'night.

Frankston - where the scum meets the sea LOL.
Dandenong - where the Nongs are handy!

Hello from North Carolina!

Hello and Welcome to the board :D:D:D
So happy that you joined us!

Felt bad about last comment i did point out to my son that not all quilters are crazy and memapausal like his mum. Some are quite young, others well past that stage. Some of my best friends were made just by mentioning quilting or thru other quilting friends. Anyone who puts time and energy into beautiful creations can't be too bad. Never met a quilter i didn't like.
:) As far as meeting on line, i pointed out most of his friendships are online.

Welcome from Missouri, USA, so glad you joined us.

Frankston - where the scum meets the sea LOL. ha ha

Welcome from another Melbourne quilter.

Hello from Perth, Western Australia. Two of us recently met up while shopping for fabric. Totally random and unexpected. Small world...and yes...sons can be fairly cheeky when it comes to Mum's who Quilt.

Welcome your avatar is wonderful I love your quilt!

Hello from Ohio.

Hi there, wish I was a bit closer but I guess a 3 - 4 day drive is along way to go to catch up for a coffee.

I just drive 70 kilometres every Thursday to meet with a patchwork group.
:cry:
look forward to chatting some more

welcome from Charleston, South Carolina
carol(ceegee)

Welcome from New York.

Welcome from Arizona!

Welcome from Michigan.

Welcome from Pleasanton, California.

There are no rules, just whatever you like, however you like it. The goal: to create something to use, not necessarily something to put in shows.

Hi there - you're a close neighbour - only 20 mins away. Hope you are keeping warm and dry.

Rainy Day and lindyline - count me in.

Hi there - I am way up in Dalby and it is freezing here at the moment also

I am like Mirrabelle too far to drive for a coffee but have a great get together

Welcome from Perth WA.

Welcome from Arkansas, USA.

That would put you in Lilydale, Tolangi, Wooriyallock or Narbethong ( if you go the other way and drive fast) or somewhere in between. I go to a quilting group in Lilydale once a month and also Marysville and buxton, where i recently shifted from :-( .

Hello Scrappysandy, welcome to our world :thumbup: Who's the "other Aussie" you're talking about - there are a few of us here :lol: Enjoy the company, enthusiasm and inspiration given so freely here.