Just saying hello for the first time. I've enjoyed reading all your posts and once I get organised will hope to add from time to time.I've been collecting fabric for ages and now I'm sort of retired...do we ever really retire?.. I can start to sew again.

HI, welcome from Kentucky.I;m a fabric collector too, I think there are alot of us on here.You will truly enjoy the time you spend on here.

Welcome from PA. I got into quilting when I retired from teaching in 1996.

Welcome!

Hi Marie, welcome from northern Minnesota!

Hi and welcome from the sunny state of Florida!

Hi from Elsie down under [Australia]

Welcome from the CA desert.

Welcome from VA. Glad to have you here.

Hi and welcome from Georgia.

Welcome from WV, USA!

Welcome to the board from Southern California!!!

Welcome from Ireland

welcome from New Hampshire

Hello and welcome to the board!

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

Thanks for your welcome, I do enjoy reading about everyone.

Hello from Idaho. I'm glad you joined us and am looking forward to getting to know you.

Hello thanks for your welcome. Hope to jump in more when I start sewing. Moved house and the sewing room will be the last but one to get done. So Im doing cold turkey at the moment ..smile

Hi....I'm new to this site too. I am very interested in making patriotic quilts for QOV. I'm looking for a pattern that I think is called/referred to as Bricks. It is kind of a scrappy quilt made up of rectangles of various colors sewed together to make a quilt top. I know that sounds reduntant, but I don't know how else to describe it. Can someone help me find this pattern or give me some sizes for the rectangles? Please? I've been a quilter for about six or seven years and have more stash than I'll ever use in my lifetime. I spend winters in AZ so I have stash there as well as in MI. I've been trying to "clean up" some of this fabric bec I know the dumpster story....that's what kids do when you are gone!! Hope to hear from someone soon. Thanks!! Still Strippin

Hello Nancy, as Im a novice I cant help you with the pattern but I too have lots of fabric gathered when I was working. Now Im retired and I hope to do a quilt for each of my family and a few friends. Then I hope to do children's and baby quilts and play mats for our local hospice. Better to use it up although it will take quite some time I think!!

Hello and Welcome to the Board :D:D:D

Hey Marie.....I'm wondering if you were a nurse before you retired? I was a hospice nurse the last five years before I retired!! I did alot of other nursing jobs but hospice was by far my most loved. It was basic nursing but the most rewarding. Small window of opportunity if you understand what I mean. Thanks for your note and I hope to hear from you often.

Thanks.....

Hello Nancy
I was a volunteer at a hospice many years ago and I was a nursing auxillary at the Royal here in Belfast until the 90's.There's no work like it I think. I just wish I had had more years there.

I could not agree more. I was a late bloomer and didn't go to nursing school until I was 36 y/o, so when I got out of school with lots of bills to pay, four kids to put thru college or whatever they decided to do, I had to go into hospital bec hospice was a "low budget institution". Still is, I think. But the last five years before I retired, I did what I originally went to nursing school to do and went to work for hospice. It's God's work, I'm sure. Wonderful people. Only trouble is, all your friends die. But, at least you have the privilege of caring for them and enabling their passage to be easier.

Really agree with you. A chance to give back something for all the things in life which went right for me, my children and my partner. I wish children growing up could spend some time helping people in this or some other way, gives you the right priorities in life I think.I had to work too to bring up the children and although it was hard at times they now all have a work ethic and are great kids..kids???the youngest is 33!!

Hey Patty Patches....Thanks for responding. Where in Kentucky? I pass thru KY when I go to GA to see my youngest son. I've visited the Cherry Pit and a coupla other shops there.

Hello and welcome from Ontario.

Thanks, Patti....I appreciate the welecome

Where ini GA? Have a son and dtr in law in Winder, GA...an hour north of Atlanta.

Thanks....glad to meet you!!

Thanks Ann from Belfast here and a real novice. Your quilt is beautiful.