I'm a Floridian also so welcome and I'm a hand quilter also. It may take longer but I enjoy the process. I want to get into some machine quilting but have only done one so far.

Thanks everyone for the welcome... I oh sooo bad need to finish a quilt for my beother...I only started it 5 years ago. Feel free tp pester, taunt, bribe or whatever might work to get it done!!!!! The feed dogs on my machine don't drop down. I have a plate I can cover them with but I won't be doing anything fancy until I get a machine that regulates the stitches. It's to much puch-pull for me. I have Fibromyalgia and would rather do it by hand till I can let the machine do the hard work. 'Like hand quilting isn't hard work'. :lol: I love the Zen in quilting. I have been meditating for 3 years and love the calmness of both endevors!

If I were to live anywhere else it would be somewhere in the Bule ridge...but I don't do snow! So I guess Gainesville will be home another 40 (yikes!) years.

Welcome from central part of Indiana :D :!:
Love love love your rooster, I might mention I love chickens and roosters :lol: your hand quilting is beautiful. What are you doing reading this post you are suppose to be working on your brothers quilt! Get a move on it girl :!:

Welcome from Roscoe, Illinois. Your rooster is wonderful!

Welcome from SW Iowa. My hat goes off to you. I couldn't begin to hand quilt.

Welcome from Oregon. Your chicken in your quilt is beautiful. Your hand quilting is amazing. You must have a lot of patience to do that.

Hi Sharon,
I just finished the last plantinging the garden so now I can sit back quilt and watch them both grow.

I had a plan when I started quilting the Rooster quilt for my grand nephew. It started with celtic spirals in the center and it sort of evolved into echo (sp) quilting...by the time I got to the outer edges I cursed myself for quilting so much per square inch, because I had to keep to the same density the rest of the way. arrrrgggg!

This is a special quilt because I combined some of my mom's stash with mine to make the quilt. She passed away several years before he was born. I have three lap size tops that she left that just worked out to be the personalities of my niece and two nephews. And two others that I will finish for my son. I have picked out and purchased the fabric to enlarge them . Now each will have a quilt of some of her making. I know she did not plan these for them but it just worked out that way. So in a way I still get to work with her on their quilts.


Thanks for the encouracement!
Do you have some photos posted? What do you like to do?

Thanks and Namaste

Welcome from SWFL! Which part of Florida do u live?

Thanks everyone for the compliments on the rooster.

What a hoot, I just found out I am allergic to feathers!

I'll try to post mor pics. Yall tell me where I can find pics of your work, and thy kind of techniques you like to use!

:)

Hi from Florida, also. I have two questions: love your rooster, did you get him off a web site? Some of us, are doing chicken/rooster quilts :P
You mentioned an annual Quilt show in Gainesville? Could you tell me when the next one is? I've never been to one, and maybe I could manage it. Seems those that have, loved it. You posted a pic...your in girl. You been reading, so you know, everybody loves pics! :D