A Journey In A Quilter's Life - Let Me Introduce Myself

Welcome to my blog!  My name is Lynne and I love to quilt so I'm going to share with you my journey in creating beautiful quilts and quilted items.  Along the way I will share pictures with you of the current projects that I'm working on, my trials and triumphs as I create some of my projects, a picture or two of my favorite little person (my 20 month old granddaughter) and a bit of humor.

Let me start by telling you a little about myself, I'm in my mid 40's, I live in a small town around Waco, TX that has a city motto of "The Friendly City".  When I moved here 7 years ago I was delightfully surprised to find that the town lives up to it's motto.  I've been happily married to my best friend for 7 years today to be exact.  I am the proud Mom of 2 beautiful young women, my oldest is in college studying Medical Administration, my youngest is married to a wonderful young man, manages a wireless phone store and is the mother of my precious granddaughter.  They are expecting my grandson in November.  Lots to be excited about.  I've worked the past 20 years primarily in accounting and recently quit my job to explore starting and running my own online quilting store, I'll tell you more about that in future posts.

I made my very first quilts when my daughters were 2 and 4.  I had a very good friend who was learning how to quilt from her mother so she taught me the very basics of quilting.  I was a single Mom back then.  I still remember being so excited about starting this first project.  I went to Wal*Mart and selected matching fabrics for both of the girls.  I made a light blue one with bunnies for my oldest daughter and a matching light pink one for the youngest.  I tied them to finish them.  I had no clue back then about the methods of stitch in the ditch or free motion quilting.  My youngest daughter actually kept her little quilt all the way up until when she graduated from High School and moved to Florida.  She accidentally left it there when she moved back.  No worries though as me and my Mom have made several for both of them.  My grandbaby even has a small collection herself.

That was about the extent of my quilting experience up until about 6 years ago when my husband got me a very basic sewing machine for Christmas.  I was so excited to try it out but didn't have anything to sew at the time so it actually sat for a few months.  Then a coworker found out she was having a baby girl so I remembered that I had this sewing machine and thought it would be neat to try my hand at quilting once more to create a baby quilt for her.  She chose pastel purple fabrics and that's where I truly started.  After that I made a quilt with Transformers fabrics for my nephew and as you've probably already figured out I started making quilts for different members of my family as gifts until pretty much everyone had at least one for themselves.  With each quilt I kept pushing myself to try more difficult patterns and my quilting continued to improve until some of my friends and family started suggesting that I could actually make some extra money with my quilts.  At about the same time my Mom began taking quilting classes and would teach me everything she learned.  It wasn't long after that that she invested in a quilter that I now own as she has upgraded to a much fancier ride and she started a business herself quilting other people's quilts.

Enough about me for today.  Please tell me a little bit about yourself and if you're a quilter what is one of your favorite quilting patterns and what is one of your favorite fabrics.  Example: I like applique quilting and I LOVE Moda fabrics.  I will be holding a drawing for a Moda Morris Tapestry charm pack when I reach my 100th follower so if you enjoyed this and would like to join me on my journey please share with all of your friends so we can make it there together.