Quilting Forum
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This quilting forum is the place where you can share ideas, ask questions, show your works of art, and much more.
This is your place.
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Topics
After reading the guidelines feel free to post onto any of the topic threads and make comments to anyone’s post. We’re all here to help each other, share, and are open to any suggestions for additional topics.
These are the topics currently available with their descriptions. To post to any given thread, find the corresponding form below.
- Introduce Yourself: Tell us a little bit about yourself. Be sure to include where you’re from and how long you've been quilting.
- Quilting Firsts: Everyone remembers their first time with the magical feel of fabric. Share what brought you to the quilting side of things.
- Pictures: Have a picture of a completed work or are you in the middle of a project? This is the right thread for you.
- Questions: Stuck in the middle of a project? Need help before you start? Even questions out of the blue are welcome here. We’re all here to guide you through it, even if it’s just to win on a game show. ;)
- Quilting Stash and Tips to Organize: Once you begin to quilt you fabric stash starts to build. This is the perfect thread to ask questions, give advice, or just share your story of how to organize it all.
- Quilting Shows: Know of a place where quilts will be displayed? Share it with the rest of us!
- Monthly Contest: Any type of quilting moment can be discussed here for a chance to win a monthly prize of quilting designs. You even get a free design just for sharing and being accepted (posted) for the drawing. Be sure to read the contest rules for more information.
- Consumer Experiences: Did you have a great experience getting your quilting supplies? Or did you have a not so good one? Please share with us.
- Anything Goes: Did you have a topic that you wanted to write about but it didn’t fit into any of the other threads? Here is where you can put it.
- Quilting Site Help: Has this site helped you with your quilting? Is there something would like to see us add? Let us know here.
Introduce Yourself
New to our site?
New to our site? Introduce yourself. We have friendly visitors from all over the world to greet you.
Posts From Other Visitors
Be sure to welcome others.
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Patti in Joplin, MO 
I've done quilting most of my life and, since I retired, tried foundation quilting with small projects.
Decided to make a quilt top with the method. …
Julie NM
Lived in MN and WI for 40 years, but now live in NM for 20.
I've been quilting for 20 years too and newly retired and like everyone else tired of being …
Suggestions for quilting an Applique quilt
I have spent several years putting an applique quilt together (King Size) representing things I love or love to do.
Now I am puzzled on how to quilt …
Hi from Webster NY
Hi New to this forum. I'm a retired Special Ed teacher (11 yrs retired) and started quilting a little before I retired.
My adult daughter taught herself …
Patty from Missouri Not rated yet
My Grandma was a beautiful hand quilter. I should have paid more attention when I was 10!!
I was the last grandchild to receive a hand made quilt …
Debbie Not rated yet
Gonna be a new grandma,and making him a quilt!
Live from AZ Not rated yet
Hi,
I'm Lynn from Arizona. I've been quilting for a couple of years. I started around the Christmas of 2013. That's when I got my first sewing machine. …
Quilting Firsts
Have A Great Story About Your First Beginner Quilting Project?
Do you have a great story about your first beginner quilting project? Remember the questions you had and how you found out the answers? Share your story with your hard-earned knowledge and add your best picture to with it!
Pictures
Have A Picture You Want To Share?
Do you have a great picture of something quilting related? Share it!
What Other Visitors Have Said
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Spin With the Stars Not rated yet
This has bee such an awesome week!
I received even more pictures of what customers have been quilting.
Check out this lovely Stars and Pinwheels …
Hallowedding Quilt Not rated yet
I made a Hallowedding quilt for my daughter that got married on Halloween last year.
I used a witch pattern from our own Rebecca in the quilt.
…
Quilted Schoolbag Not rated yet
This is the story of my daughter’s new quilted schoolbag that I made her.
Just a couple of days ago my daughter came home with her backpack in tatters. …
Baby Quilt Gone Wrong Not rated yet
When I was about to have my daughter I wanted to make her a baby quilt.
I found the perfect fabric. It was super soft baby fleece. The print on it …
Questions
Have a Question?
Do you have question and need help? Are you stuck in the middle of a project? Ask for help!
What Other Visitors Have Said
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Question about Basic New York Beauty
I've printed out the layout pages for Basic New York Beauty (paper piecing) but realize that I don't understand the pages. The usual paper piecing layout …
Quilting Cruise
I know this might sound like a weird question, but I’m gonna ask it anyway.
What the heck do you do on a quilting cruise?
I’ve heard of crafting …
Can I quilt? Not rated yet
I am Kathy Unbehagen from Houma, Louisiana. I am a Registered Nurse and retired. I am in the process of buying me another sewing machine. Any suggestions? …
Quilting Stash and Tips to Organize
Have Some Great Tips?
Do you have a ideas about how to organize a quilting stash? Help others by sharing it!
What Other Visitors Have Said
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My Grandmother's Things Not rated yet
Recently my grandmother passed away. She loved to quilt and had three chests full of fabric that she had not used. The fabrics spanned from a number of …
Quilting Shows
Know of a Local Quilting Show or Event?
Do you know of a local quilt show or event? Share it with the rest of us!
What Other Visitors Have Said
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Is There a Quilting Show in Your Future? Not rated yet
Here’s what’s been happening in Denver and still has a few more weeks left!
Capitol Quilt Show 2013
Date and location: Jul 29-Oct 10, 2013, 7:30 …
Monthly Contest
Have A Great Story About Quilting?
Do you have a great story about a quilting moment? Why not share your experience for a chance to win in the Best Quilting Moments Contest? Just submit your story with a picture. The winner will have an honorable mention in our ezine and receive 5 free patterns via email.
Customer Experiences
Have A Great Story About This Topic?
Do you have something to share about an experience you had? Share it!
Anything Goes
Have A Something To Add That's Quilting Related?
Do you have a great story or idea that's quilting related, but no other thread to put it in this forum? Share it here!
What Other Visitors Have Said
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Quilt for my Mother
It was winter last year, when I planned to bring my mother to my place. The place she stays faces very bad weather conditions during winter. So I asked …
Quilt for Baby Not rated yet
I recently gave birth to my first child in June of 2013, which brings me to the story of receiving such a beautiful quilt.
I worked as a waitress …
Pleasant Welcome Not rated yet
I remember the first day when I walked through the gates of my wife house. She had this pleasant welcome quilt. It was very attractive and very pleasant …
Mother's Quilt Not rated yet
The word quilting somehow makes one remember GRANNY and olden days. I especially feel good, happy, and rejuvenated hearing the word quilting. Quilting …
The Quilt Which Saved My Life Not rated yet
I was stranded in the deep frozen forest of north Atlantic .The sun was really dull and my fate was unfortunate.
I ended up here after the copter …
Quilting Site Help
Has Our Quilting Site Helped You?
Do you have a great story about this site? Do you know of a way that we can make it better? Share it!
Wrap Up
Please remember to be courteous to everyone when posting on the quilting forum.
Thank you.
Until next time.
Happy quilting,
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