Hi everyone,
I'm new to newsgroups and here. My friend "flair" in Michigan told me about this group and I just had to join. Although I don't get the opportunity to post much I'm sure I will be doing some.
I live in NW Florida panhandle. I'm so far up and over that I'm in the Central time zone. I started hand stitching blocks many moons ago with Flair and others on the BBS's. No internet back then. Any way I never got any further then making blocks. Now I've started a prayer quilt ministry in our ladies group at church. Sometimes I think I made a mistake but then it is so rewarding I put all the dismay aside. See we have several ladies involved....2 wash and press material....5 almost know how to cut only (if I can just get them to measure correctly and cut without mountains and valleys we may have less wasted fabric) then there are 2 that know how to thread a needle on a sewing machine plus have learnt how to stretch, sandwich plus pin a quilt and only 3 of us that actually know a tad bit about quilting. Since 1/21/07 we have had
18 prayer quilts on the altar. Pretty good I think considering how many actually sew.I'm looking at all my books and patterns trying to decide some simple blocks and or ???? to be able to get more of these ladies sewing. I was so upset one day with the cutters that I gave everyone homework. A simple 9 patch using the strip method. Well my worst cutter ended up with totally different fabrics from when she started and over 20 wrong block measurements due to her hurry up and cut, cut, cut method. The unfortunate part is she never did learn a thing about measure twice cut once. So I'm still trying to deal with those problems. Oh and that is all she is willing to do.
I'm not sure of the rules concerning newsgroups so if I do something wrong please let me know. I promise to learn not to repeat errors. Well I need to get a move on as I have my group showing up soon and must get to the church with a smile. Hmmm not always easy.
I would love to visit any of your sites and any sites that I might be able to get simple patterns for my ladies and even more simple instructions. Thanks for any help.
Dorothy