I too am a shy person. I started out just reading the posts that were listed in the newsletter--for quite a while. Then I checked out some of the pictures and recent post---for a while. I was here for 6 months before I got up the nerve to post. It took another year before I got brave enough to post pictures of my quilts. I probably would have never posted anything if the people on this board were not as wonderful and supportive as they are.