Any quilters aboard?

Nope, I've never quilted before. I don't even sew. Do you quilt and what have you made?

My grandma was making a log cabin and i wanted one. so she had me pick out the colors and told me to get started. I was sixteen. Then about 25 years later i started to make more.

I started quilting in the 90's. I kinda taught myself thru books, t.v. shows and such, tho I did take a short class with my sister once. I've made quilts for almost all my grandbabies. I owe quilts to two of them right now. My eyesight has started to fail me, so I seriously doubt I could manage those 12-14 stitches per inch (hand quilting) I was able to do when I started this hobby... :-(

I just started quilting a couple weeks ago. I finished my first quilt top earlier this week, and I'm now working on a second one. Once I'm done with it, I'll put them both together and finish them. I was considering trying to hand quilt one of them, but I'm not sure if I will. I know that my machine won't handle quilting something so large (it's not a huge machine so I can't fit a lot of stuff under the arm), but I might try it. I never really thought to look in the library for quilting books, but I was on the online card catalog for my local library, and they have a TON of books. I'm planning on going up there to pick up a couple books on hand quilting and quilting patterns and things like that. But the internet has been a great source too! I've found about 50 patterns that I like, and I only have enough fabric to make about 2! LOL Anyway, to answer your question, yes, I quilt, but I just started recently. I didn't technically teach myself since I've been kind of watching my mom do it for years, but she never sat me down and told me how to do it either. So I guess I kind of learned a little from my mom and learned the rest on my own. Shannon

I started sewing a few years ago, and I pretty much taught myself by making mistakes and reading the book that came with my sewing machine. I still make mistakes all the time.

I quilt. I've always been interested in it and wanted my Grandma to teach me back in the 70's but she said they had so many kids and had to make so many quilts to keep them warm (Western NY) for the long winter that she never made another one when she didn't have to! I taught myself with my own pattern. Different colors of gingham squares, then laid them out in a pattern. I had no idea it was a form of log cabin squares but after I really got into quilting, that's what I was doing. Must be inside all us quilters huh? I have pieced some by machine but don't enjoy it. I took a class where everything was done by hand and loved it. I have a king sized pieced top that I still haven't quilted. I quilted a lot while living in Florida as my first love, knitting, was a wasteland. Nothing there but generic acrylic yarn that was too heavy for anything in Florida so focused on counted cross stitch and quilting. Then moved to NC and took my knitting back up and have been doing it ever since, 9 years later. I have the quilting itch though to make some wool/flannel quilts and my sister has convinced me that I have to do some of these projects by machine or I'll never get anything done. She makes a lot of them by machine piecing and quilting. I invested in a nice Babyloc sewing machine that is specifically geared toward quilting so look forward to getting enough time to play with that.

my sewing experience started when I was maybe 3 or 4, my grandmother was big into sewing, she started teaching me with a patchwork square quilt, something simple, lol. My small quilt had no specific pattern or anything, it was just someting to help me learn the basics, it ended up being big enough for one of my dolls, and my grandmother finished it for me, she just put a back on it, no batting or anything lol, and I used it for several years with my dolls, lol. I learned by hand, and never used a sewing machine up until last year. After not touching a needle in atleast 12 + years I decided to make a baby quilt when I found out I was pregnant, and I made a patchwork square quilt by hand, my husband saw that I was pretty good with it so he bought me a sewing machine, now I made quilts in what little spare time I have, I really enjoy it and may one day have a small home based business making "memory quilts" I made one for my husband, his is made from his grandparents clothes, its a good way to keep around a part of someone who has passed.

I haven't ever done a quilt myself. I would love to learn though. I'm not very good at sewing though, so don't know if I'd really like it. I would like to make my children a quilt and one for us someday. Quilts are beautiful, there are so many different designs and a variety of patterns that can be used. I'd love to create one of these timeless pieces of art.

well i am not one but i like to use it , but of good quality only

I have been quilting for 20 years now off and on. My mother taught me to sew, quilt, crochet, cross stitch, cook, clean, and all that. I have 2 full size quilts under my belt with many smaller wall hangings and lots of pot holders. I am currently in the middle of my first quilt in a few years. It is a take off on the rail fence pattern, except I have turned it into a pinwheel pattern. One of my best freinds is having triplets, boys, in a month or so and I need to make a few baby quilts asap.

I have been quilting since I was a teen. We had to make our own blankets so it was a normal task in winter to make quilts. I still make them today. I love make quilts. I am more into denim and tieing them now than quilting them. I have had carpal tunnel surgery twice and my hands have never been the same.

I learned to quilt when i was 12 from my mom. the past few years i started doing a lot of costumeing and my quilting got put aside. Now i'm slowly get back in to it and am working with making my own prints for fabrics and such.

I started quilting in the mid 1980's. Self-taught, mostly from Quilt magazine. We live in VA, but moved to PA for 2 years so I visited Amish country a lot and saw a lot of Mennonite quilts. I'm working on several projects now. It is a nice break from computer work! Julie Web Manager www.drdavestein.com

My mom taught me to hand sew when I was little. Then she gave me a basic machine lesson when I got a little older. Since then I have been completely self taught. I only started quilting just over a year ago and holy moley I have learned so much since then. I actually started by making 3 quilts for my family for christmas I started in Nov and finished all three by the big day. I look at those quits now and realize how much my skills have improved. I now applique and do much more detailed sewing. I do all the quiting by hand on my dining room table(much to my husbands dismay!)

i have never quilted or sewn in my life, but my husband bought me a sewing machine for this christmas and i would love to learn how to quilt. i would appreciate it guys if you would give me some advice on what materials i need and where to start. obviously i'm a beginner/wannabe quilter :) thanks!

I do a little bit of quilting but its not a major passtime for me, I'd love to have time to do a really big quilt sometime, but I just know it isnt going to happen. Maybe if someone could put an extra day in the week for me perhaps

sorry i dont know what is quilting

I have been quilting for about 10 years. I leanred some in a home economics class in junior high and i have taught myself everything else. I have gotten some good patterns off the net. In the past i have made a killing selling them on ebay but I have taken a break for the last couple months.

I quilt!! I am pretty much self taught. I enjoy hand quilting as well as machine quilting. I have made about 12 quilts total. I really need to get in there and do some more, it has been a while :)

I wanted to make a quilt since I was about 8 or 9 and started saving materials when I was in my early 20's...some 2 decades ago. About 3 years ago my sister's sister-in-law invited me to join a quilting class she was teaching from her home on Tuesdays. It took about 8 months of weekly classes to finish piecing together the top then another couple of classes to do the actual quilting. Fortunately, the sister-in-law had her own long arm quilting machine set up in the garage. Unfortunately, she decided one night she didn't want to continue teaching, so just like that it all stopped. I've continued designing tops and have completed a couple more but don't have access to a quilting machine and don't have the patience to do it by hand. Have been playing with the idea of taking a small business loan and starting a business making customized quilts. With the new technologies available, I can put your photos on a quilt, embroider words, phrases, initials, even pictures. Does anyone think there would be a market for this?