Just wondering if there are any other quilters around these parts???

I started quilting over 15 years ago!

is a quilter. I don't think she reads this forum tho. You might PM her.
I've seen her work...it is beautiful.

I can crochet but always wanted to quilt.

MRSD, Thanks for the YorkieMom tip!

Shelley, maybe nows a good time to quilt!

I know there are a couple more here!

I don't quilt, I just started to sew. I love sewing, so I'm thinking about learning to quilt. Did you pick it up on your own, or did someone teach you? Is there any special equipment you need to do it?

I am a quilter and love working with beautiful fabrics. I have only been quilting for a few years, trying to remember when I started. I am probably the world's slowest quilter, but I really enjoy it.

I just got a longarm Gammill machine a couple of months back and am attempting to learn how to use it.

Quilting can be very relaxing-I think it is a great prescription for getting one's mind off of their health issue... Try it... It is addictive!!! Then you can have a fabric stash like me...

I don't think you have to do anything special to learn how to quilt. You can buy a beginner's book and probably do very well this way. My friend and I took a beginning quilt class though, and learned a lot of the basics in this manner.

Learning to use a longarm, I think, is going to be a horse of a different color... I will need more instruction than the books offer...

Nice to see a place where you all are posting...
Cathie

I'm a quilter although lately I've been sucked up by knitting, crocheting, and tatting. I like to spin, and I also adore origami. I'm a little overboard on decorative geometry. :-)

I need to get back to quilting actually; I've got a finished top that's needed to get basted for ages. It's for a friend's wedding, and they've been married for *mumbledy* years now. *sigh*

Bird...don't know why I thought you had moved. It's just too darned bad we don't live closer together, we could quilt while watching the neighbors. lol

I have just recently got into sewing...........

By nature I am an outdoors girl...hunting and fishing and farmin....well thanks to this ole disease I have been trapped indoors much to much. So Thanks to the love of a dear friend whom gave me a sewing machine around Christmas time and the guiding hand of my grand mother, the love of quilts and crafts passed down from from generations gone by....I am now a sewing person.

I have recently made my first piece work wall hanging. I have it all sewn together and am ready to quilt it. It will be a wall hanging with the picture pockets on it....dont know if ya'll have seen them or not but they are way cool. I dont have a pattern just a picture of one so I am going all on my own with no prior experience ............lol this should be a true test of my abilitites.........I HAVE LOVED IT SO FAR........If it turns out well (making it as a gift) I have another friend I need to make one for whom is moving into her own place...then on to bigger things.......
I am happy to know I am amung great company in enjoying this dying art.........

(if I need advice and help good to know where to turn lol....)

I loved seeing the other wall hanging.....When I can give this gift to the new owner I will post a pic of it here....but in the meantime would LOVE to see other masterpeices......

Guys, I forget to check this forum....

Momma, I sent you an email/PM...about something else!

There are so many ways you can learn to quilt...there are books, and DVD's...shoot I bet there is somewhere on the internet! And quilt shops and fabric stores have lessons! Go to a senior citizen center and have a little lady show you!

I have been handquilting more lately and it really does make me feel good!

And I've been working on two quilted stockings, which honest to goodness I should have completed by now, but my interest wanes faster now adays! Like a ADD kid sometimes!!!