Welcome to The Quilter's Last Resort

Greetings to the newbies. We'd love to hear about you, what you like to quilt, etc. This is a very friendly group.

seasew joins us today, hope you are all ready for xmas and enjoying some sewing time just for you! Welcome to our forum, please stop by and say hello, that way we can wish you a Merry Christmas!!

tgiff76 & Barbsews join us today, my apologies on the slow activation of your accounts, I have been away camping. Hope you enjoy the forum and stop by to say "Hi" it would be nice to be able to welcome you in person, so to speak

Stellasdaughter just joined us, now Im pretty sure that she is Redmadders daughter, I could be wrong but perhaps she will stop by and let us know! Welcome to the forum, I hope you find a place to hang out and meet new friends, if we can help you find your way around, let us know, we are happy to help

Yep, that's my daughter.  I may have to watch what I say on here.  She's mostly dropping by to read the story I wrote.  She's creating the costumes for a play set on Cumberland Island. 

 It would be nice to have her around though.

Oh I soooooooooooooooo wanted to go camping on Cumberland but the weather was no good, big dissapointment, hope she says hello, we can tell her all kinds of stories about you likie good friends are supposed to do

It is wonderful the way several groups of friends and family are on this site.

Hi, Thank you guys for letting me join. I'm Stella's real life daughter. You know her as redmadder.
I needed some help with a historical quilt, for the war of 1812.
I have just started costuming for a local community theater group. This time it's a black history month tribute, and I wanted to present a small hanging quilt, to show my honor and thanks.
I live near Cumberland Island, so this story is about real people, from the area.
Everything I have learned, I have learned from watching my mother, as I grew up. She would let me make my own mistakes, when i attempted to mimic her, and then she would hand me the seam ripper, and say "now let me explain about the grain of fabric, or too fast on the peddle, or stear it gentle you don't need a death grip on the fabric for it move through the machine...etc"
We've worked on several quilts together, sometimes I would help her with fabric color choices, mostly I would iron her blocks ("set the stitches?") while she zipped through the rest of her blocks.
For all of that, when it was finally my turn to put the skills to work, I have impressed her, more than once, with my accuracy (especially on difficult seams, being just a beginner )

So, for this forum, she will have many phone calls to help guide me through the technology of actually using a computer, and navigating a sight.
And our distance means, anything new I learn about quilting, will be on here, or over the phone as well.

Thank you!
Stella's daughter (a.k.a. Snody Duck)

Well we may just have to call you Ducky, it's much shorter than " Stella's daughter ". and I for one am a lazy typer. Your mama is a jewel and I don't think we have any bad stories to tell about her. So you may learn things, but it won't be anything juicy about your mama.

Any time you need help with anything at all, forum, quilting, etc please don't hesitate to ask. We have folks in all time zones so there is usually some one around to help. I hope you enjoy hanging out with us and sharing more of your story. I think I would love working with a community theater. That sounds like fun.

Welcome, Stella's daughter, but we do need a shorter version of that, though. I have a niece who also did  costumes for a community theater for awhile. She left after the fellowship was over as they hire no full time people but I think she really enjoyed it. Hope it all goes well for you and you enjoy it.

Ahhhh, maybe we could call you SD for short, that covers Stellasdaughter and Snody Duck or as TxMary said, we could call you Ducky!!! So glad you popped in to say hello, it sounds like you have a big project ahead of you and it sounds like you have a lot of great skills that are going to see you through. A couple of the members here make costumes from time to time and there are many seamstress' too (not me, I cant even make a button hole and I wouldnt know what to do to sew a zipper in, Id just chuck it at the fabric and hope it stuck!) so there will be lots of help and interest in your projects. Your mum is a wonderful woman, we love her sense of humour and she is such a busy acomplished sewer although there was that time.....................................nah, only joking!!

You live in a pretty area, I lived in Savannah for a year, where I met my fool, no I meant jester, no I meant husband - him, he comes on sometimes as fabric purchaser, acts all hard done by, dont be fooled.

wishing you luck with all your future quilts and the costumes, as TxMary said, if you get stuck, anyone around here will be happy to help out as much as they can, welcome to our hang out

Just call her Ducky!  She is so cute, that just fits her.  I named her Snody after my grandmother.  Not my fault she married a Duck.  But he's a great guy and only threatens to give her back about once a year.

this morning we welcome gmpachu & Grams, hope you have fun looking around the forum and please, stop by and say hello so we can welcome you personally

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Welcome to Barbara Hanlon from New Zealand, just across the ditch from me!! Hope you will stop by and say Hi, we would love the chance to meet you