Hello from Illinois!

[VWA99]

Hi All,
My name is Wendy and I am very new to quilting. It started off as making a couple of blankets and is turning into really making quilts. My hubby gave me a used Janome MC11000 for my birthday and it's all been downhill from there. I cannot seem to stop making things! Sewing, embroidering, doesn't matter, I just keep going! The thing I do struggle with is which stitches to use to machine quilt the things I make - took me a month to decide on a stitch for a table runner. lol I went from a Kenmore 9 stitch machine to the Janome, so I'm sure some of you can understand my problem, and of course, I want things to be just perfect! Any suggestions on where to learn about machine quilting for different styles of quilts? Or maybe even what the appropriate term is, I have no idea on some of the terminology.
TIA for the warm welcome I know I will receive

[Bubby]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Welcome to the forum from Missouri. My advice would be to watch Jenny's tutorials and the posts here on the forum.

Glad you joined us, Wendy!

[Angela J]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Hello Wendy and welcome to the forum from Tennessee. I know some of our members are quite excellent with their selection of quilting pattern and the execution of it. I am not one of them (LOL)! Someone will come along to give you some advice pretty soon.

[Simply Quilting]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Welcome

[Granny Judy]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Hey there, Windy. I'm in Central Illinois -Peoria area. Glad to have you here. I use U tube a lot for my quilting "how to". AS to your question, Take your time, the answers will come. It is a process and way to much to learn in a short amount of time.

I always try to utilize the stitches on my machine, too. And often struggle with which stitch to use. Will be watching to glean some advice from the more experienced quilters.

[Snip Snip]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Hi, and Welcome from Missouri.

[jjkaiser]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Hi neighbor, welcome from Wisconsin! I don't have an answer for you, I am afraid my machine quilting would make me the laughing stock of the forum--yes it is that terrible-- but you definitely came to the right place to get some answers!

[nayzie]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Welcome from TN. To learn the stiches on my machine I used a scrap piece, roughly 8 x 11 folded in half length wise, using a contrasting thread stitch across stopping an inch from edge. Then using a ink pen write on this sample stitch # and stitch length and hang above my machine for quick reference.

[Log CabinQuilter]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Welcome, I'm a newbie here as well. I've only been quilting for 6 years and started off making small quilting projects and progressed upward. I love Jenny's tutorials and wish I had found her when I started.

[baskets4deb]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Welcome from Idaho! I grew up in Galesburg.

[Carolyn23]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Hi Wendy! Welcome to the forum from the Chicagoland area! I understand your addiction....I share your addiction. Ain't it great?!

[stationarymom]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Hello Wendy Welcome to the forum from Massachusetts.

[latterberry]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Hi there! I'm in Illinois too. I'm in Havana--about 45 miles SW of Peoria. Where are you? I'm sorry I can't help much with your questions since I do all my sewing and quilting on an old Singer 15 that I dearly love. It's fun to see you so excited--welcome to the wonderful world of quilting!

[latterberry]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

I'm in Havana--along the Illinois River too. Where are you? Our kids live in the Peoria area so we are up there a lot.

[VWA99]

Re: Hello from Illinois!

Good Morning Everyone!
So many neighbors, how nice We are in north central Illinois, an hour and a half north of Peoria and an hour southwest of Chicago, 3 hours from Wisconsin. One of our nieces attended UW - go Badgers!
I have looked at a lot of youtube tuts, I have read a few books, and you know sometimes it seems like it all goes out the window when trying to think what I want to do! lol Nayzie - I started making sandwich squares and doing some of what you are doing, labeling them, and then of course the excitement of the machine took over, I think I got maybe 3 squares done. I should really sit down and do that, it would really help the process in the long run.
Thank you all for the warm welcomes!