I am a grandmother, great grandmolther, Love teaching my younguns how to do it all.
I have always used the hand piecing and quilting merhods and it still is my first love. But it is so much faster to do it all by machine and I think just as lovely. Am looking forward to reading about you all and talking with you.

hi there and welcome to blogging, you will find that its very habit forming,
its fun to chat with everyone , meet new people and make new friends
Lynda

Welcome jjolo! It's so fun to have other quilters to discuss new methods with. We're such a diverse group...all ages, locations, and levels of addiction!

Please come back often and thanks for being bad with us!

Yes it is fun to be bad,I am going thru my stash now trying to (again) sort some of it out. I am in the process of finishing a top putting it together with crazy quilt sorners. fun, Also in my small rural fabric shop I found some novelty buttons to put on it. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it is so fun,my son said you didnt buy anymore fabric did you? and I said well tes but just 1 yard for binding the qukilt that I just finished. It feels so bad to be honest!!!!!!!!! lol Jo

Jjolo...I must confess that I am a button addict! When I was a child, I often played with my grandmother's button tin (kind of like a big old fruitcake tin). My grandmother was very thrifty and would cut old buttons off garments and string them together on thread, safety pins, etc. I just loved imagining their history.

When she passed away 24 years ago, she left two sons who didn't care about such things as buttons. So I inherited the button tin. I still have it and I reluctantly use a button from it now and then. Practically, I know there's nothing special or valuable about these old buttons...they're rather ordinary and plain. They just have such sentimental value. There are some really pretty ones that I've used for embellishing special projects.

Now to the present! I am drawn to button displays everywhere I go. The other day I unearthed some that I bought about ten years ago that look like flower pots and pitchers. The idea was that you'd make silk ribbon flowers and then sew on the button for accent.

I love the look of embellished quilts! Buttons, appliques, yo-yos...whatever! The more the merrier. And so you only bought one yard THIS time! I'm sure the day will come that you'll be very bad and buy lots!

I have some of Don's Great Grandmother's buttons which are very unique looking I haven't yet used any if I do it will be for me cause I don't want to give them away.
Lynda

Yes I remember my Mom stringing her buttons like that, I have still some of hers(I lost her when she was 94 and still piecing quilts) Now I use some of her buttons on the crazy quilts that I do. JO

Hi I'm new too. I love to quilt. I have sewed all my life, but just started quilting about 5 years ago. It keeps me very busy. I am currently making a quilt for a raffle at the Catholic School in our town. This is my 3rd year doing that. The quilt I made last year was autioned off for $1400.00. Boy I was excited.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to get an image for my name.

Modie
Clarkston, WA

Hey Modie, glad to hear from you. I am 75 and started hand piecing quilts wirh my mom and her sister when I was just a kid, then stopped for some years .Have been making quilts now for about 15 years non stop. I have made all my kids,grands and greats, at least one. My youngest grand daughter (5) sees one and says Nana who is going to get this one , if no one else wants it I do. I think she has one for each season in her room. lol.
I also give quilts to families who have the mis fortune to be burned out and need to start again. Jo

I've never joined a blog before so this is new to me too. I have just recently moved to the Ozark Mountains and was having withdrawal. It's a 2 1/2 hour drive to the nearest Joann's! I am coping with it though. I have decided that I will just buy extra when I do get to one. I also remember my mom having a button box and I have one as well. It is a tin and I still keep buttons off shirts and things that I get rid of. I haven't had to buy buttons for a shirt in years. Guess I'm cheap but the more I save, the more fabric I can buy!