The start!

I have just begun learning to quilt and free motion quilt. I am really excited about this because it has been something I have wanted to do for many years now. I have very little sewing experience, other than some very basic repairs and I am really looking forward to this journey and reawakening my creative side. I was in art shop at the vocational high school I attended but I have not really done much artistically since then. I just could not find something I was actually excited about doing, other than painting my jumps (I am an equestrian.) I have created this blog to basically log my progress with sewing and quilting. I am learning in many different ways, one way being watching a lot of online tutorials by Leah Day and the Missouri Star Quilt Company, also participating in Leah Day's Building Block Quilt Along of 2014, taking a local quilting class with some friends and of course, a lot of reading.

Photos of my first blocks for the BBQA with The Free Motion Quilting Project!

And a couple photos just experimenting this evening. I was quilting on the wrong side of the fabric because I could not stand staring at the checked print, so that's why my name is quilted backwards on the dark side, but it is easier to see the stitching on the darker side.