A new quilter!
03-12-2026, 04:28 AM
#12
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: The Great State of Texas
Posts: 417
Hello there!
I can relate to your journey! I, too, had a grandma who quilted, but I didn’t really get “into” it until she passed away and I inherited a few boxes of her supplies and started exploring. I was much too young and too busy to start a hobby like quilting, but… I did it anyway! About 30 years later and I’m still at it.
Your first quilts are wonderful! You’re already better at paper piecing than I am—LOL. Welcome to this wonderful hobby and I hope you enjoy it here!
I can relate to your journey! I, too, had a grandma who quilted, but I didn’t really get “into” it until she passed away and I inherited a few boxes of her supplies and started exploring. I was much too young and too busy to start a hobby like quilting, but… I did it anyway! About 30 years later and I’m still at it.
Your first quilts are wonderful! You’re already better at paper piecing than I am—LOL. Welcome to this wonderful hobby and I hope you enjoy it here!
03-16-2026, 10:25 PM
#13
Power Poster
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Mississippi
Posts: 27,271
Welcome, Daniel! Your quilts are great. I'm so impressed that you would tackle that complicated PP pattern, as a newbie! Good for you! Hope you have a great time on the Quilting Board and make lots of friends. Be sure to check out our gallery pages for some good inspiration!
03-24-2026, 08:50 AM
#14
Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Coos Bay, OR
Posts: 211
Welcome! I love your mountain. Your lines are so even and professional never had guessed you were new!
This forum was great when I first started. I had crashed the niece's sewing lesson with my grandma on a visit home and stayed up late drinking wine and finishing the little lap quilt. Then I went back home and wanted more. I had a machine and lived in a city where I could easily get supplies and I found this forum. They helped me learn to cut my own squares and machine quiltband were a great resource when things were unexpected more complicated than I planned.
This forum was great when I first started. I had crashed the niece's sewing lesson with my grandma on a visit home and stayed up late drinking wine and finishing the little lap quilt. Then I went back home and wanted more. I had a machine and lived in a city where I could easily get supplies and I found this forum. They helped me learn to cut my own squares and machine quiltband were a great resource when things were unexpected more complicated than I planned.
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#16
Member
Join Date: Mar 2026
Location: Marion, IL
Posts: 8
Welcome from Southern Illinois!
Hello! I’m Daniel, a 20 year old who started quilting two years ago. I’m a physics student from Chicago with very little free time, but I’ve managed to complete 2 quilts thus far! Pictures and info are below. I’m very interested in improving both my piecing technique and quilt design skills, but to be honest, I'm a little less interested in the actual quilting part. I’m more interested in making “modern” quilts, but still find traditional quilts to be absolutely beautiful.
Unfortunately, my grandmother, an avid quilter, passed before I started sewing, which means I’ve never really had the opportunity to talk to anyone about quilting, as no one else in my life quilts. I hope that this community can provide that for me and also answer questions I will surely have.
Despite being relatively new to this whole quilting thing, I find myself quite certain that it is something I will carry through my whole life to come. For reasons beyond my ken, it seems that I am simply drawn to do this. So I shall!
I have attached images of the two quilts I have made and the design of the third, which I am still drawing up.
#1 A simple mountain design very similar to countless others that can be found on the internet. I had a lot of fun making it, and think its simplicity made it a good first quilt. I do think I should have made it bigger, though.
#2 A resplendent quetzal, my brother’s favorite bird (this was a gift to him). I learned how to paper piece and so made this! It was a bit over ambitious, which, combined with time crunch, led to sloppy execution. My many design mistakes here also taught me some important lessons
#3 Art Deco! A design I drew up this last week that I am pretty happy with. I may make a post soon asking about the best way to block it out and quilt it. It will probably take quite a while to actually get it sewn.
Unfortunately, my grandmother, an avid quilter, passed before I started sewing, which means I’ve never really had the opportunity to talk to anyone about quilting, as no one else in my life quilts. I hope that this community can provide that for me and also answer questions I will surely have.
Despite being relatively new to this whole quilting thing, I find myself quite certain that it is something I will carry through my whole life to come. For reasons beyond my ken, it seems that I am simply drawn to do this. So I shall!
I have attached images of the two quilts I have made and the design of the third, which I am still drawing up.
#1 A simple mountain design very similar to countless others that can be found on the internet. I had a lot of fun making it, and think its simplicity made it a good first quilt. I do think I should have made it bigger, though.
#2 A resplendent quetzal, my brother’s favorite bird (this was a gift to him). I learned how to paper piece and so made this! It was a bit over ambitious, which, combined with time crunch, led to sloppy execution. My many design mistakes here also taught me some important lessons
#3 Art Deco! A design I drew up this last week that I am pretty happy with. I may make a post soon asking about the best way to block it out and quilt it. It will probably take quite a while to actually get it sewn.
