Starting From?

Okay, so FIRST POST! Where to start? I guess I will start at the beginning....

The Beginning of my quilting journey is a very simple story :) A boy and a girl fell in love....

My journey started when I met my husband's mother for the very first time. We started talking to get to know each other and as we talked, she was hand sewing. This fascinated me because I had never seen something like it before. Well, I ended up sharing with her my history dabbling in crafty type things like knitting and crochet and asked her if she thought she would be willing to teach me how to hand sew. Since then, we have  tried to meet up every week to catch up and sew or knit or cook or whatever floats our boats.

So... My first official project with quilting was an English Paper Pieced flower made with 2 1/2" hexagons.

Currently I am working on:

•  EPP hexie quilt of my own design (when I feel the need to hand sew, in the process of basting the background hexies to start putting the quilt together)
• Applique Snowmen quilt for an Christmas gift (it is in the process of being hand quilted)
• A machine sewed Disappearing 9 Patch (Queen size to be used on my own bed in the cutting stage)
• A machine sewed Rhombus Quilt (Lap size to be given as a wedding gift in the cutting stage)
• A postage stamp quilt that will most likely be EPP (in the design process)

In future posts, you will probably hear about brainstorming ideas, fabric buys, notion buys/reviews, progress on the above mentioned projects, etc. I will try to post at least once a week... maybe more frequently if my busy schedule allows!

This blog is mainly for me to use as a journal type setting where I can return and see how far I have come, but you are more than welcome to use my posts as inspiration if you see fit. I will try to post links to everything that I used for inspiration, and if that fails, then I will at least mention where the ideas came from to give proper credit and also to keep my journal complete with a reference guide! 

I will try to blog on each individual project in the next week or so with pictures and where the ideas came from :)