Hi, everyone, I just came across this board while looking for ideas for quilting my current project and am so excited to find a place to connect with other quilters!

I first began quilting when I visited my grandmother in Virginia when I was seventeen. I had no choice but to start a project as I ran around with her from quilt show, to guild meetings, to classes, to informal quilting get-togethers- and I was hooked! I made a little patchwork pillow that first summer, and hand pieced a watercolor wall-hanging the second summer (maybe I'll get on here to ask for ideas for finishing it one of these days!). I still get so nostalgic, thinking back to those summers I spent with my grandmother and her quilting buddies! : )

15 years later, I have a husband and six kids, and we're in the process of adopting our 7th. Our life is busy! So quilting for me has been sporadic, to say the least. My current project is a scrappy log cabin that I started for my husband 10 years (give or take a year or two! lol) ago and have only pulled it out every now and then. Two and a half weeks ago, I got super-motivated and have been banging it out- about halfway through piecing the last border, then this top will be DONE! When it is, I'll post a photo to ask for help with quilting ideas.

Anyway, nice to "meet" you all! I look forward to being inspired and learning a lot! : )

Welcome, waving from central Indiana, USA

Hello and welcome, from western Nevada!

Hi from there jesey shore, you will find this board very addicting

Hello, welcome from Oklahoma!

Welcome from New Hampshire. Perhaps I will meet you one day in a Marden's fabric department!

Hello and welcome from northern California!

Hello and welcome from middle of mitten on sunrise side of Michigan

Welcome from northern NY. I will be moving back to Maine the beginning of the year. I can't wait. I love it there!!

Hi Kristin :) Welcome from Minnesota!

Welcome from Oklahoma!

Welcome from Michigan!!

Hello and welcome from the UK!

Welcome from Texas

Oh, I'm so glad to hear that Maine will have another quilter soon! Welcome in advance! : )

Thank you, everyone! It's nice to receive such a warm welcome! : )

Welcome from Michigan.:)

Hello and welcome from the Arkansas Ozarks.
Happy quilting.

Hi and welcome to the board from Iowa. Nice to see you here and hope you will enjoy the fun and education that is offered.

Hi Kristin!

Welcome from Michigan!

Wow! Working on number seven you must be busy from sun up to sun down! Sounds like a ton of fun too!

Welcome from Kansas

welcome from n.w.ind!
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welcome from Michigan.

Welcome to the board from Southern California!!!

hello and welcome.

welcome you will love it.

Hello, and another welcome from Michigan!

hehe, yes, definitely busy from sun up to sun down- or the kids' bedtime, whichever comes first! ;) So I tend to be an all or nothing quilter- it's either in the closet being ignored for months on end, or I'm doing nothing but! Currently, I've been a little hyperfocused on this log cabin top for the past 2 and a 1/2 weeks- it's so *close*! : )

Thanks again, everyone, for all the welcomes! I'm already having fun on here. : )

Howdy and Welcome from Kentucky!! :D

Welcome from over the border. You certainly have a busy life and what ever quilting you can do is great.

Hi and welcome from Mass. so much to learn and this is the board to learn from so welcome have fun

Hello and welcome fellow Mainer.

Hi and welcome from Arizona. Looking forward to seeing your "finished project." :-D

Welcome from Md.....born and grew up in Maine...love the State..wish I were there now.
Warning: this board is addicting but very, very helpful. Happy quilting!

Waving hello from Maryland!

(((( Welcome from Oklahoma ))))

Welcome from Georgia!

Welcome! Born and raised in Maine, now live in Alabama. You will get so much inspiration from this board I look forward to seeing eveyone's ideas and commments everyday!

welcome from se TX