Well, I have been "lurking" here for about a month and it is high time I introduced myself! I have been quilting for about 3 or 4 years, ever since I found out I was going to be a grandma! I knew that grandmas make cookies or they quilt. My cookies leave something to be desired, so that left quilting.
I haven't finished very many quilts, about ten smaller ones for niece's, nephew's, and friend's babies and for the sweetest cutest granddaughter in the world, Sophia. Until just recently I was working fulltime (that's a whole 'nother we won't get into ) so I didn't have a lot of time to do more.
However, I have many quilt TOPS done! Just waiting to be quilted. And a ton of UFOs too..
I confess to being a fabriholic. Over four years of collecting a focus fabric here and a focus there, and OH.. I best get coordinating fabric.. and isn't that one pretty! and so-n-so would love a quilt made from that and so on... and since I traveled throughout Oregon and Washington for my job, I HAD to stop in every quilt shop I could find and what's the use of stopping by if ya can't pick up a fat quarter or ten..
I have my whole basement family room turned into my fabric storage and cutting room. Soon I will add the machines to the downstairs (once I get a sewing cabinet or four..), which are currently housed on the dining room table. "KIDS.. go eat in your room.. I have to sew!"
Yes, I said machineS.. seems I have started a Featherweight collection this last month. I now have to stay away from Ebay. Ebay is trouble.
Several other friends and relatives accuse me of getting them hooked on quilting. HA! accuse me likes its a crime! I am guilty then, guilty I say! And proud of it! or.. am I quilty?
OK, bad pun. Sorry.
I have some pics somewhere of some of the tops waiting...I shall attach one or two in a few minutes in a separate post. I have to find them first! :mrgreen:

Jana

welcome from Southern CA.

Hey there girlfriend! Nice to hear from you.

Dang UC! You found my post fast! You must live here..LOL..

Ok, here are a couple of the quilts tops I have done. The first one, the yellow one, all it needs is binding. (I hate binding..). The one with the pink peacock feathers is for my nephew's daughter. I hope to finish it before she starts college. (she is 3 years old now). The colorful rainbow one is just one I made because I liked it. :-D

Wow! These are great! What is the pattern for the brightlly colored one! THE RED, YELLOW BLUE, ETC. One you were going to add a border perhaps. And oh, welcome from Denver.

Those are gorgeous! Let's plan a "finishing" party real soon.

Wow those are gorgeous - and welcome from another Washingtonian - over on the Kitsap Peninsula. I think all of us here are alittle quilty of our desire to cut up fabric and resew it together.
Sherryl
Candlequilter

Hello and welcome from Ontario.

Welcome from PA!
wonderful quilts
and I want to know the pattern for the bright one also
I want to make that in batiks!

Welcome from Alabama :-D Nice looking quilts.

Nice work--Welcome from Texas!

Hi Jana, welcome from northern Minnesota!

Beautiful quilts!!! I love them all, especially the bright rainbow one!

Welcome from Ireland

Very Nice! Love the rainbow one. Want to try the first one myself.
Welcome from Skagit County, WA.
Nancy

Welcome!

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

Your quilts are beautiful!!!

Welcome from the CA desert, we moved here from Bonney Lake, WA.

Beautiful quilts. I'm with you quilting over cookies any time.

Wow! One of my own kind. (Although it seems that most of us here are of the same ilk!) Welcome from Western New York!

Sounds like you have been busy! Welcome from New Hampshire!

Welcome from the dry side of the state!

Hello and Welcome from Louisiana! Your quilts look like fun!

i like your bright cheery quilts. welcome from eastern washington.

Welcome to the board from Southern California!!!
Your quilts are beautiful!!!

The pattern for the bright rainbow one is real simple, just half square triangles and squares. I made them 4 inch (finished size). For the squares choose five different medium pattern prints in each color family, numbered them 1 through 5, and put them in the quilt in order.
This quilt top is from a kit, but I am going to make at least one more quilt top like this, using fabrics I have picked out, as I found some more good bright fabrics to use. I may use six or seven prints and make it larger though.
One "trick" is finding blue, red, green and yellow fabrics from the same family for the HSTs, so in the HST's, both triangles seem to belong to each other.
I also used the Thangles paper pattern to mass produce the HSTs. Much quicker, although during Shop Hop I saw a very cool stencil with iron off chalk that you could use instead. Much easier than removing paper.
I think I may go get that... UglyCook? trip to Oly?
Anything that is quicker and easier is for me! :lol:

Oh! We should have gone today, they had $5.00 off!

Hello, and welcome from southeastern Michigan! 8-) It was about time you stopped lurking and joined us!! Glad to have you here! :wink: :thumbup:

welcome from eastern Oregon! Glad to have you on board, lol.

Welcome

Hi and welcome from the sunny state of Florida!!
All of your quilts are beautiful!!! I'm partial to the VERY bright one,LOL!!

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

Hi, welcome from Pitt Meadows, BC Canada!

Thank you everyone for your warm welcomes! :-D :D

Hello and welcome from Idaho. I am pleased to meet you and know that you will love this board!

Hello from North Carolina! Beautiful quilts!