mimee4

You can be so pleased with yourself for making 24 - count them, 24 - quilts. That's quite an accomplishment and definitely brings you up to the high intermediate quilter. Congrats!!

KimS

Don't think anyone would take it that way although you do deserve to brag on yourself having made 24+ quilts. :-)

callie

Interesting discussion. I would have qualified a beginning quilter as someone who did not tackle different designs and stuck with very simple patterns. I would have qualified myself as a beginning quilter from the time I was 17 to 58. I started was watching all the quilt shows on TV and discovered there was a lot of stuff out there that I might like to try. Then I bought a Quilt In A Day pattern book to make the freedom star and never thought I would be using "little pieces" - ha ha. Love that pattern & today will tackle things that I never would have considered before. I would say I'm an intermediate quilter today at age 63 but definitely not above that - people who design their own quilts, make quilts with lots and lots and lots of tiny pieces - now that's expert in my book (LOL).
I have 3 sets of friends who started quilting 3 years ago and two are more beginner quilters and the third jumped from a 9 patch to doing star points & a bargello that is out of this world. Think we all have comfort levels and what we feel comfortable doing or tackling - it's a wonderful world and I love this board for all sorts of reasons. Thanks so much everybody for sharing - great people here for sure.

#1piecemaker

After 24 quilts. I'd say you graduated to the next level!!

Grandma Peg

That's a lot of quilts in two years. Keep it going.

karate lady

Not bragging. Just being a little proud of what you have done. And that is OKAY!!!!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

GailG

I like to call myself an experienced beginner because there are so many quilts I HAVEN'T made yet. I love traditional blocks and had as my goal to make samplers of every traditional block I could find. hahahahahahaa

G'ma Kay

God Bless You!

MargeD

As long as you call yourself a quilter - who needs to know whether it is beginner, intermediate or whatever - YOU'RE A QUILTER AND BELONG TO A GREAT GROUP OF QUILTERS ACROSS THE WORLD. SPREAD THE WORD!! Now did I go a little overboard? Oh well. Sometimes we just need to step out - beginner or otherwise. When I first started to quilt, I learned from magazines and a video with two notebooks of patterns and templates by Georgiia J. Bonesteel. I made my daughter a full size quilt and hand quilted it - the first and only full-sized quilt I hand-quilted - then I developed carpal tunnel from being a secretary. No worries - my husband picked out a basket crib size pattern for me to make into a king-size quilt. I actually quilted it on my sewing machine, made lots of mistakes, but it was on our bed for over 10 years. "Basket Case" was a challenge - on point, pieced handles, king-size, etc., etc. but my husband loved it. Nobody told me I couldn't do it - so I did it. Spread your wings girl and fly. There are no quilt police to tell you that you can't do it. Have fun and enjoy the journey.

Dina

I am going to repeat myself....this is a great place to be! I'm proud to be a quilter and to be apart of this group!

I labeled myself a beginner, and I liked a description I read in one of the quilt books I review for our guild....confident beginner. The quilt book had levels of quilts, like beginner, intermediate, and advanced...and one was labeled confident beginner. That is me!