beginnerquilter

Thank you for your help...I'm having a friend that lives not too far from me is going to help me out. I also belong to two Quilting Groups in my town too.

There is no Quilt Shop in my town and I don't think there is a Quilt Shop in the Big City either which is a good hour from where I live at.

I am doing this slowly so I don't make a mistake and so that is why I joined this board so I could get my questions answered.

Ditter43

I love your enthusiasm..It will carry you a long way! Practice is all you need. Your first blocks are not bad...just a little "wonky." Ricky Timms got famous with his wonky quilting.. :D
Ditter

beginnerquilter

Well since that picture was posted I have squared them off and cut them into a smaller size square. They look so much better now than they did in that picture.

I didn't know anything about squaring them off until somebody mentioned it and so that is what I did.

Thanks Ditter...you made me laugh about Willy the Wonky... :)

beginnerquilter

I meant to say Ricky Timms...not Wonky Quilt...I was think of Willy the Wonky when you mentioned about Ricky's Wonky Quilts. I'm not wide awake yet. It is early yet and I haven't had my coffee yet either. :)

Oklahoma Suzie

Hi, and welcome from Oklahoma. Great practice squares.

Marcia

Looks like you are off to a good start with lots of enthusiasm.

Another tip for you. When you are making half square triangle blocks (we call those HSTs) it is so much easier if you lay two squares of fabric right sides together (RST), draw a diagonal line across the back of one square, stitch a 1/4" seam on either side of that line, then rotary on the line. When you open your fabric, you have made 2 squares with each side being a triangle. There are formulas to know what size to cut your squares to make different size blocks. This is so much easier to do than cutting and sewing 2 triangles together!

Here is a tutorial online that may help illustrate what I am talking about. http://quilting.about.com/od/quickpi...squaretria.htm

Good luck! You will be an expert in no time!

beginnerquilter

Thank you....they are much smaller now too. I got them squared off and they look so much better. I have started to put them together tonight.

Lisanne

That's the best way, friends and quilting groups!

beginnerquilter

Thank you for that Tip about the HST....I was wondering how a person made those.

Thank you all for giving me Tips and so forth. They do come in handy especially when you never made one before. :)

cande

We all have to start somewhere and you're off to a good start. There's so many wonderful quilters on this board and they're all so willing to help with any questions, I can't begin to tell you how much I've learned in the last couple of months!