Hi, welcome from NW Pa. glad u joined us. There is a very nice quilt shop in Jamestown, NY it is Quilters Haven at 115 McDaniel St. she has classes and is an excellent teacher. whenever i go to NY, i try to stop in her shop and see what new fabrics she has. Other quilt shops in Endicott and in Dewittsville.

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

Thank you. I will call her Monday and ask about classes.

Welcome,steelerfan! You will learn a lot here. There are many tutorials.

Hello and welcome from Elizabethtown, KY!

Welcome! There are two nice shops, one in Jamestown (Quilter's Haven) and one in Lakewood (Calico Cat). I'm from Erie but I've been to both and they are nice.

welcome to the board I am only a hour away from you in Cattaraugus. There is also a couple of quilt stores in Warren ,PA that have classes and check the Joanns in Lakewood. Wouldn't it be wonderful to actually meet while shopping in the stores lol have fun and sit back and relax.

Hi and welcome from a former New Yorker, now in New Hampshire.
Placemats were the first quilting item I made.
I began a quilt thereafter with fabric I didn't like (not wanting to make mistakes on "good" fabric) - don't do it - a mistake, I hated looking at it as I worked and never finished it.

I don't know where Jamestown is in relation to Gloversville or Ravena. Diana Marshall's Gloversville Sewing Ctr and Londa Van Derzee's Log Cabin Quilting are both great shops with good classes.
Londa and Diana are wonderful women and great quilters.

http://www.logcabinfabrics.net
http://www.gloversvillesewingcenter.com

Every other year there's an Empire Quiltfest show somewhere near Albany - good show, vendors and classes. Last one was 2009, so there should be one in 2011.
My son has a place near Hudson, I drive over to take my granddaughter, a new quilter, to the show.
We have a wonderful time and she gets to see work other than mine.

Hi! Not sure how far Jamestown is from Albany but I think the Joann's here offers beginners classes. You can find church groups and look into local quilting guilds. I'm mostly self taught and my mother-in-law has helped a lot when I need it, and so have the ladies here. Truthfully, you can find tons of tutorials and videos and how-to's online, YouTube is a great source that I use often!

Good luck and welcome to the board!

Hello from Jamestown,NY. Nice to see someone from my home.