I lurked for about ten minutes and decided to join. This is one active community! Wow!

Hello, my name is Shanelle. I'm 30, I live with my boyfriend in the Indianapolis metro area, and we share our house with a 12-year-old Corgi dog (his) and a 3-legged cat of indeterminate adult age (mine). I work in professional theatre as an electrician and my job is seasonal, which means summers are spent crafting my fingers off! 8-)

I'm still fairly new to quilting, but I'm not new to sewing--I can remember my mom working in her sewing room when I was a wee little thing, and she'd give my siblings and me fabric scraps, buttons and a threaded needle :shock: to keep us out of her hair. I know I made a lot of vests for my Cabbage Patch doll, and I was probably 4 years old when I played with that thing? So I've been sewing at least that long. I just started quilting this past winter (I decided my sister needed a lap quilt for Christmas) and I've been going gangbusters ever since, learning as much as I can. I'm also a pretty serious knitter, and sometimes I play with embroidery. Fabric and fiber make me happy. :) In addition to the crafting, I'm a runner and a healthy-living nut, so I keep myself pretty busy. Some people, when they learn I don't work in the summers, talk about how they'd get so bored and go stir crazy. I just come back with "I might not work, but I have plenty to do!"

I'm looking forward to posting and reading here, and getting inspired by all the amazing work I've seen so far. Here's my latest finished effort, my third quilt ever. It's a crib quilt for a friend who is having her first baby. I gave it to her yesterday at the shower, and she loved it, so I'm happy!

Welcome from Colorado. Your quilt is gorgeous. I love the look of hand quilting and your work is really great. This is a wonderful group to participate in. We're glad you're here.

Welcome from the woods of New Hampshire. You will find a LOT of help and suggestions here. Your Quilt is lovely. :thumbup:

Welcome Shenelle, Nice to have you with us. And you did a wonderful job on this baby quilt. Hard to believe you are a beginner.

Welcome from Alabama. Love your quilt.

Welcome from Michigan! Your quilt is sooo nice!

Hi Shanelle! :) Welcome from Minnesota!

Your quilt is beautiful ... I love the hand quilting!

Cute quilt. Your sttiching is beautiful. Welcome to the board.

Hi Shanelle and welcome to the QB! Your quilt is really pretty! Looking forward to seeing more of your pics!

Welcome from Pennsylvania!! I'm orginally form NW Indiana. You will love the ideas on here.

The hand quilting is gorgeous and you are going to fit in just fine here.....we are all material addicted and attached to our sewing machines and needles by long tethers....lol

Welcome from California!

Your quilt is amazing. You are pretty amazing also. Most of us NEWBIES just write a line or 2. You wrote like you have been here forever and you even posted pictures. Stay with us, we all like what you do and this is fun place. Welcome.M

Welcome from Maryland....your quilt is pretty

Nice Quilt! Welcome from Michigan.:)

A beautiful quilt and your hand quilting is grand! Are you a hand piecer as well? Oh, Hello and Welcome from Maryland!

Hi, welcome from North Carolina. Love your quilt.

Hello and welcome from the Ozarks in Arkansas.
Happy Quilting

Hello, and welcome from Idaho!

Hello and welcome from the UK! What a beautiful gift for your friend. Thanks for sharing.

Welcome from Oklahoma! Beautiful Quilt!

Welcome, Shanelle, from Louisiana.
What a great baby quilt. I checked out your blog and saw more of the pics. Your hand quilting is GREAT!!
And you are one FUNNY gal!! Loved your pics of the "ice sculptures" (frozen plants!) and was that bacon you put on your
ICE CREAM???
Again, welcome, and you will be a great addition to this site. ENJOY!

Hello there and a warm welcome from southern California. Love your quilt. The colors are just awesome. Glad you decided to join us. This is the best quilting board to belong to. The people here are so helpful and friendly....one big family.

Hi and welcome from the Arkansas Ozarks. You work is beautiful :)

Hi from Winnipeg, Canada. I've been reading this site for several months and have finally decided to join. I am relatively new to quilting having only started 3 years ago when I retired from teaching. I am loving it - both retirement and quilting.

Welcome from Kansas

Hi & welcome from Oregon! Beautiful quilts - thanks for sharing them.

Aw, shucks. Thank you! I don't really have any readers besides my boyfriend so my blog becomes more about entertaining myself than really conveying any useful information about anything. ;-) And I think he only reads it to be nice, since he already knows about everything I put up there... But yes, that was bacon on ice cream. It's good! I don't eat a lot of junky stuff, but when I do, I don't do it halfway. :thumbup:

Oh and go Saints! I'm a Colts fan (of course) but I'm cool with the Saints too. My guy was at Purdue at the same time as Drew Brees so he's a huge fan, and I end up watching them almost as often as the Colts. :roll:

Hello and welcome from Oregon

Welcome from North Carolina.Your quilt is beautiful and the hand stitching is so good.

Oh and go Saints! I'm a Colts fan (of course) but I'm cool with the Saints too. My guy was at Purdue at the same time as Drew Brees so he's a huge fan, and I end up watching them almost as often as the Colts. :roll:[/quote]

You will find alot of Colts fans here (mainly fans of Peyton Manning-since he grew up here!). So for the Saints first Super Bowl, it was quite a show for us to have the Saints and Colts going head to head!

I'd like to add a warm welcome from Arizona where we have a very DRY heat! Finding this board you will come to learn is one of the best things that will have ever happened to you. Night or day, fellow quilters are here with words of support, help in finding things, fabric sales, technical expertise.......all at the click of a button. Pace yourself my dear, it's addictive and the more time you spend on the computer is less time to sew! hee hee. Seriously, it's what I call my happy place. Enjoy!

hi and welcome from oklahoma beautiful quilt and hand quilted. great job

Welcome from WV, your work is beautiful!!

Great job..and welcome from Michigan! :)

Hi and welcome to the board from Iowa. Lovely quilt. You will enjoy it here.

Welcome from Michigan. If you are a fairly new quilter you should be proud of the work you do.

Hi from Ohio!

Hello, welcome and happy quilting from Germany! What a beautiful quilt!

Thanks! I haven't hand-pieced anything yet, but someday I will have a grand magnum opus of a project. So far all my quilts have been gifts, so they needed to go quickly, but I do love hand-sewing.

Welcome to the board from Southern California!