Is this the perfect hobby?
 

Hello, all! I'm brand new to both sewing and quilting, but I love color, design, fabric and puzzles, and I like making useful things, so it seems like the perfect hobby for me. (Tried knitting, but there is no way I can handle yarn in July when it's 105º out!)

I'm looking forward to finding answers all of my very newbish questions here (like, do you end up with bits of string everywhere from snipping after you sew each seam, or am I doing something wrong?) :eek:

Anyway, making my first quilt for my new baby niece and am having so much fun. I decided on a disappearing 9-square and when I tried to describe the geometry behind it to my husband, he accused me of being a quilting nerd. This from a guy who spends his spare time pushing bits of cardboard around to play WWII board games. Ha!

Welcome from The Woodlands area just n of Houston -- yes, I wonder where all the little threads come from and how I can clip all of them!

Well, I think it is the perfect hobby. When the heat goes up in the summer, you can piece a top instead of hand quilting in a hoop, which ends up with the quilt on your lap!!

I like the variation of patterns and the challenge of color placement. My daughter, a math major in college, liked the geometry of the patterns.

Enjoy the hobby, and welcome to the QB!

Welcome from North Texas.

mltquilt

Welcome from Minnesota and happy quilting :)

Welcome from the Suburbs of Chicago! Quilting is the perfect Hobby. The infinate possibilites keeps me hooked.

Welcome from Southern California!

Empty tissue boxes are very handy! If you use the kind that have the plastic flaps on the opening, keep one on hand wherever you are sewing - you can put your cut threads in & they don't fall back out. Otherwise I spend my life picking threads out of the carpet!
Welcome from England : )

a warm welcome from western KY