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Well, welcome Linda from another Victorian, I'm in the south west corner. There are a few other Australians here as well as you will no doubt find out soon. The people here are very friendly and very, very helpful.

Do you have any photos of your work ? Webshots seems to be the most popular place to display photos.

Dee > I've just spent the last 90 mins reading all about you guys. It's been

Hi Aussie - from the Western District of Vic!

I am also a big fan of applique.

Welcome....you'll love this group. They are the nicest group of people. I love to quilt but love making patchwork, and scrappy quilt also memory quilts. I live in New York/USA. I read you're from Australia.....birthplace of my TV hunk from the TV show Without a Trace....Anthony LaPaglia. I am a breast cancer survivor ...almost 1 year. Pami

I'm Morag and I'm almost 35 (birthday in a week). I live just outside Glasgow in Scotland, we moved back here in January after living in England for 11 years. I have two small children, Rory is 4 and Iona will be 2 in August. I stay at home with the children and also work part time from home in the evenings and weekends. My husband is Paul and he works away quite a lot during the weeks.

The first thing I ever remember making was a pot holder with hexagons when I was about 7 or 8. All of the women in my family are enthusiastic needlewomen - my mother knitted and made our clothes, and both grandmothers knitted, did embroidery and were generally very handy with a needle. Must be in the genes. I didn't do much with a needle through my teenage years but when I was 21 I spent a year in Spain and while living out there someone gaveme a cross stitch kit and I was hooked again. Have moved on from cross stitch now and dabbled with needlepoint for a while, before rediscovering patchwork and quilting.

I am a firm follower of the english paper piecing technique, it's the way I was taught and I find it much easier to get points matching and I get bored with rotary cutting anyway!! I have made a few baby quilts and one large bed quilt so far. Work in progress is a blue and green baby quilt for my sister's baby, due in July. Then a Dora quilt for my daughter.

Morag

Hiya, I'm Jo in Scotland. I was born in Oregon, in the US and lived there for 21 years, then moved to Alaska for about 2 years, then England for something like 2 years, and I've been in Dundee for 10 years now. I know that equals 35 but I'm still 34. I started reading about patchwork and quilting about 12 years ago, when I emigrated to the UK. It's difficult for ex-pat wives to find work, so I haunted the local libraries and read about various things. My mum made all of our clothes, toys and dolls, taught us all to embroider when I was about 7 and so naturally I had watched all this activity and joined in on various occasions throughout my childhood. My mum had made a couple of simple tied quilts, and a gem of a Dresden Plate for my brother's bed, in greens and whites. I made my first quilt in 2001 I think, for a friend at work who was having a baby. I think I made every mistake in the book on that quilt and how much time I spent as well - it was made using a 99K handcrank machine and it's sure difficult to quilt something when one hand is busy turning the crank. Onwards and upwards I made more quilted items, slowly abandoning doll and teddy bear making for the lure of the quilt. More can be seen here:

-- Jo in Scotland

Welcome aboard! Spring is certainly bringing us a nice bunch of new quilters, eh?

Karen, Queen of Squishies

Ballarat??????? Sheesh why haven't you made yourself known before now???!!! ROFLOL!

We have great friends in Ballarat and are usually up there every couple months or so.

Wow! We'll have to get together next time.

Welcome aboard!

You are included in my thoughts and prayers. Barbara

You are included in my thoughts and prayers. Barbara