I am SO HAPPY to have found this site, and by accident! I am a longarm quilter and a professional embroiderer...work out of my home. I was a nurse for years but hopefully am retired now, I love working from home. Some weeks I have more than I can do and some weeks I wonder where everyone went....lol. I have been sewing since I was 9, many, many years and I have loved it since I began. I made all my own clothing through High School and spent the days in Home Ec teaching other students how the thread their machines. My first machine was a gift from my mother, a Singer touch and sew, the old gray ones, a 620 I believe. It was a great machine. There have been many since. I have now come full circle I guess, what I use 99% of the time is a high speed, straight stitch machine. I have a little Pfaff 1473 as a backup when I need a zigzag, which is very seldom. I have list my Pfaff Creative Vision for sale, in fact, due to the fact that I never use it and it is just wasted with me. I know there is someone out there who would love her the same why I loved that old Singer, so hopefully I can get her to her new, loving home.

Thanks for letting me be a part of this forum, I know I will learn a lot of new things from all these very knowledgeable ladies and gents! Michelle Guadarrama

Welcome, waving from Indiana, USA

Thanks, Indiana!

Hi from Eastern Washington. Love the doggies. What are their names? Would love to see pictures of your projects. :thumbup:

Hi and welcome from the sunny state of Florida(except it's raining at the moment)! Cute quilt inspectors!

Hello and welcome from Alabama!Love the quilt inspectors :D

Hello and welcome from Ontario

Hello and welcome from SW Iowa. Glad to have you here.

Hi and welcome from Kentucky

Welcome from Oklahoma with a Massachusetts accent. So happy you could be here. There is always room for one more quilter.

I have had two Dachshunds in my life, but they never did dress up. :wink: