Hello from North Carolina
07-19-2017, 06:35 AM
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Location: Clemmons, NC
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Hello from North Carolina
I love to sew, and have since I was a kid. I've done clothes, home decor, and the occasional Halloween costume for my son, but after he grew up there was little left to inspire me. Then one day my step-mother, who used to hand quilt, suggested I look into quilting. Well, I'd rather scrub toilets than hand sew 
, but she showed me how quilting was so much more than that, and took me to my first show in Pigeon Forge, TN as a birthday present. Well, I've been hooked ever since, and love almost every minute of it. I still hate hand sewing, and I don't like to do the actual quilting part(although I do it on a machine), but the fabric, the colors, the patterns, the piecing - all that I love. I've lost track of how many quilts I've made over the last ten years. Duh, didn't think to take pictures of them before giving them away until about 2014. But I can't stop and now have a devoted craft room filled with fabric, 3 sewing machines, and all sorts of tools and notions. Too much fun!!!
Now as to why I'm here. I'm a programmer analyst and I also own a business, but both are done from home, so I'm limited on meeting others. I didn't want to socialize via the Internet, but not wanting to get into the world of Facebook, I was sort of stuck, until I found this wonderful board. I really wanted to meet others that love to craft with fabric, but I didn't particularly care to join a guild, although I do spend a good deal of time in my local quilt store and take classes, but it's still hard to make new friends with the way my life is organized. So, here I am, hoping to hook up with others that have the same obsession - I mean passion
- about quilting that I do.
So - waving from North Carolina!
, but she showed me how quilting was so much more than that, and took me to my first show in Pigeon Forge, TN as a birthday present. Well, I've been hooked ever since, and love almost every minute of it. I still hate hand sewing, and I don't like to do the actual quilting part(although I do it on a machine), but the fabric, the colors, the patterns, the piecing - all that I love. I've lost track of how many quilts I've made over the last ten years. Duh, didn't think to take pictures of them before giving them away until about 2014. But I can't stop and now have a devoted craft room filled with fabric, 3 sewing machines, and all sorts of tools and notions. Too much fun!!!Now as to why I'm here. I'm a programmer analyst and I also own a business, but both are done from home, so I'm limited on meeting others. I didn't want to socialize via the Internet, but not wanting to get into the world of Facebook, I was sort of stuck, until I found this wonderful board. I really wanted to meet others that love to craft with fabric, but I didn't particularly care to join a guild, although I do spend a good deal of time in my local quilt store and take classes, but it's still hard to make new friends with the way my life is organized. So, here I am, hoping to hook up with others that have the same obsession - I mean passion
- about quilting that I do.So - waving from North Carolina!
07-19-2017, 10:54 AM
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Location: East Oklahoma - pining for Massachusetts
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Welcome from Oklahoma. You have come to the right place. We live and breathe quilting. I started in 1992 and have made about 92 quilts. (we won't talk about the unfinished ones) 
Please be sure to show us some of your work.
Please be sure to show us some of your work.
07-19-2017, 04:34 PM
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Thanks for the welcome!
I created an album with some of my latest work. I hope you take a look. If you do you will see I do all kinds of quilts from landscape to traditional. I like a challenge, then after it has beaten me to a pulp, I jump into something familiar and a lot less taxing on the brain.
I created an album with some of my latest work. I hope you take a look. If you do you will see I do all kinds of quilts from landscape to traditional. I like a challenge, then after it has beaten me to a pulp, I jump into something familiar and a lot less taxing on the brain.
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