Joined: March 9, 10

I have always loved to be creative making things. I love fine detail work with my hands. Have made many items including but not limited to, detailed painted ceramics, cross stitching, other painting, wood work, and much more. The only craft type projects I never liked or wanted to do is if it involved having to use a sewing machine. Quilt making goes back five generations in my family as I remember and so many family members created beautiful quilts. I finally started my first hand piecing quilt five years ago. My first two quilts were all hand pieced and quilted. Then for some crazy reason, one day I said to myself after a quilt top is quilted....no one know if the top has been hand pieced or machine sewed unless they take it apart and examine it that way. In sharing this information with a friend of mine, he offered and gave me a Singer sewing machine he bought at an auction for $1.00. Thank goodness it included the instruction book or I would have been lost. After, reading the illustrated book, I learned how to set it up, thread the thing, do the bobbin procedures, and test the thing to make certain it would sew......I started sewing a simple patch quilt top, hoping I would not screw up to much sewing straight lines. Well, it came out looking like a patchwork quilt top I was satisfied with....so, that is when I got hooked and now making many tops on that thing called a Singer Sewing Machine. I am hooked and no longer feel like a sewing machine is a tool that should be stored out of site. I now have a 500+ sq. ft. studio room that is devoted to my quilt making. Yep, I am even still using that $1.00 Singer Sewing Machine that I have developed a lovely relationship with and will not part with it. I do oil and keep it clean. I did recently purchased a walking foot for this machine and now want to try machine quilting. I presently quilt by hand, but though I would like to learn and try machine quilting as possibly a quick way to whip up a gift item when not enough time to hand stitch one. I get lots of compliments on my work and been told I should enter my designs in shows.....but, I don't feel I am there yet even if I am and don't know it. Thanks for stopping by, please feel free to share and/or leave comments or just have a good laugh that it took some woman 58 years to discover what a sewing machine can do to make a project go much quicker.