So, I went and took that first step. It was really easy to register and open an account. It was a no brainer to write and publish my first posting. But now, three days later I can't seem to make a decision on what to do next. So many decisions.

I don't have a picture of myself to post and probably never will. Hate to have my picture taken. Grrrrr. I do have pictures of some of my current projects but haven't quite got the skills of posting pictures down yet...and probably never will. Remember, I <<>> tell you I am a self-proclaimed techno weenie!

Maybe it would be best if I started by talking about some of my on-going projects. That should take a couple of weeks! My current piecing project is using Christmas fabrics to do the Hopscotch pattern. Got together with two of my friends last December and we each went through our respective stashes of Christmas fabrics and cut 10" squares. It was interesting to note that as we did this it became obvious that each of us gravitated to entirely different types of Christmas fabric. Leslie's fabrics tended toward the Thimbleberry/country look. Jo Anne's fabrics were most always novelty/cutsey prints. My fabrics, with very few exceptions, were metallic/glitzy elegant types. This is a great pattern...easy but not necessarily fast and would lend itself to a variety of fabric styles and types. I can see it done in Orientals, florals, Halloween fabrics, depression era-style fabrics. Black and whites with a touch of red or yellow would be great.

Now, as for applique projects...
Better buckle your seat belts. If you just look at the ones I am actively working on that would include Verna Mosquera's Vintage Valentine (hand applique) and her Happy Hauntings (machine applique), a generic Baltimore Album (hand applique OF COURSE), a Mary Simon BA (also hand applique), Snowman Collection (machine applique), Be-Attitudes (machine applique), and Ladies of the Sea (hand applique). You could call these WIPs...works in progress. If you want to continue with those projects that are on the back burner or UFO's I'd have to include Cinnamon Stitches and Affairs of the Heart. With the generic Baltimore Album, the Vintage Valentine and the Cinnamon Stitches I can actually see the end of the tunnel. The machine appliqued projects are fused and in various stages of completion with regard to the blanket stitching.

I sometimes wish I could be one of those ladies who starts a project and never get sidelined until it's completed and the scraps disposed of. Sadly, I just don't work that way. I like the diversity of having several on-going projects, then, when I get bored I can put it away and focus on something else for awhile. It's just how I am and how I work. Guess I'm process oriented rather than project oriented. I won't apologize for it but on occasion I yearn to be a little bit more focused.

No way I would have said I'd ever have a blog. I'm a self-described techno-weenie who can't even text message. That being said, there are a lot of quilters out there and this seems to be a good way to connect. No doubt I'll make a lot of mistakes and someone will take me to task for that but that's okay. Constructive criticism is, after all, how you learn.

I'll start with the fact that I love to do hand applique. Let me say it again...I love to hand applique. I'll even shout it...I LOVE TO HAND APPLIQUE. Boy, that felt good. Although I made my first quilt when I was in nursing school (very early 70's), I have been quilting seriously since the early 80's. At first I only pieced. In fact, I could relate very well to the term
"ack-li-que". Then, a few years ago, my best friend taught a series of classes on applique. I thought that, as a good friend, the least I could do was attend, you know, to support her efforts. Well, as they say, the rest is history and I am now a serious applique addict. How serious? I figure in order to finish all the projects I presently have patterns for I will have to live to be about 200 years old. That's if I don't do any piecing, have a long-armer do my quilting, and don't buy any of the new patterns that are bound to be published. Yeah, right.

Another of my passions is reading. Nothing serious like Kafka or Camus. My tastes run to Janet Evanovich, Tamara Myers, and Kathy Reichs. I call it M&M reading. Plain and simple, nothing complicated, not even any nuts please. After all, I have to save my best neurons for calculating half square triangles and bias binding.

I love to tell stories and I have some doozies. People tell me I am funny...as in funny ha ha. I am not really in the best position to have an opinion on that. I do enjoy a good laugh and I very much think we sometimes take ourselves too seriously. My plan is to tell a few stories here and there so maybe someone who is having a bad day can have a laugh or two. You can be the judge as to my comedic talents.

Never in a thousand years would I have forseen that I would one day have a blog! I mean, I am such a techno-weenie I can't even text using my cell phone. Nonetheless, I so enjoy looking at other quilters' blogs I made the leap.

Guess the first order of business is to tell a little about myself. Age, let's say I actually