Newbie from Bama
 

Hi all! Just found this site and let me say what an awesome site and forum boards this is. I have spent the morning reading through several sections of this board. I have really enjoyed seeing all the quilt pics. Yall are some amazing quilters. Today is the day that I get started on my first quilt. I have my first lesson this afternoon and cant wait to get started. I have been wanting to learn to quilt for some years now. I have read alot about quilting and watched alot of video how to's, browsed many fabric shops, and drooled over a many quilts that I have seen. Coming from a long line of sewers in my family I guess its only natural that I pick up the need to sew. I can sew some but just have never attempted quilting. My grandmothers both quilted but unfortunately I lost them both at a young age. My mother and sister were more garment sewers and never took to quilting and unfortunately I lost them both as a teenager. Now in my 40's the quilting bug has hit me hard and I look forward to when I can proudly show off a finished quilt. Thank yall all for posting all your helpful tips and I hope it wont be long before I can post a pic to share with yall!

Welcome from Minnesota and happy quilting :)

Welcome from Washington,DC and good luck on your class today. Just enjoy it.

Welcome from Kansas

Welcome from North Carolina. This is a great place.

Welcome from Michigan!:)

Greetings! Welcome from Minnesota!

Hi timberlyn and welcome from NE Ohio.

Hello and welcome from northern California! You will enjoy it here!

Hello and welcome from another Alabamian:):) Yes, this is the grandest place.Good luck and can't wait to see your work.

Hello, welcome from Oklahoma!!!

well...welcome from Oklahoma...though raised in MS....and born in TX..ehhehe
if you need any help give us a holler!

Hey Timberlyn, welcome from Missouri. This is the greatest place on the net with the most helpful quilters.
You post a question and you'll get more answers then you may have wanted, LOL

:) welcome from se TX

Welcome from Austin.Tx

Hello to you too & Welcome to the Quilting Board from the state of Washington!!
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Hello and welcome from coastal central Florida! Hope you enjoy your class.

Hello from Michigan~

Welcome from Texas.

mltquilt

Thanks everybody. Today was my 2nd day working on my first quilt. One thing is for sure I think the lady teaching me started me off with one of the hardest quilts...lol She said it was an easy one. She calls it a charm quilt. The only easy part is she had all the fabric already cut into 3 inch squares. Whew these are small squares and alot of them. Not gonna let it get me down though. I am about 1/2 way done with my rows. It is fun but time consuming. I think my next quilt I will definately use larger squares!

Hi from Ohio!

Welcome from West Virginia!

Hello Timberlyn, and welcome from New Jersey

Welcome from Arkansas. You are going to love this board. Everyone is really helpful and very creative.

Hello, and Welcome to the board from North Carolina :) You're going to love it here.

Welcome from Magnolia, KY!

Hello, and welcome from Michigan!

welcome from Southern Illinois and happy quilting to you.

progress
 

ok I am gonna try to post a picture of my progress so far. Hope this works. Not exactly sure what I am doing here...lol. I have 25 rows completed so far on my quilt top. I have not sewn them together yet, I just laid them out to see what it was going to look like. Its not perfect but I really think its a fun and charming quilt so far.[ATTACH=CONFIG]303611[/ATTACH]

Hi and welcome from Lebanon Oregon!! I am excited to see pictures of your first quilt, have fun working on it!!!

Welcome from Mo.. USA

Hello, and welcome from New Jersey.

welcome from another alabamian. good luck on your first quilt. can't wait to see it.

Looks great to me. I love scrappy quilts.