Turtles

Hi bloggers, my name is Andrea, I'm 58 and I live in Minnesota, USA, about 20 miles outside of Minneapolis/St. Paul. I'm a school nurse and quilting is my sanity! I'm so happy to have found this blog and I love looking at what everyone is posting and I love Tonya's tutorials. For the Lazy Gal 2008 class, I plan to make a quilt with turtles. I'm a pretty new quilter so far (3 years) and my only claim to fame is that I really splurged last summer and took a six-day workshop with Freddy Moran, of Collaborative Quilting and Freddy's Houses, in Ventura, California. I had never taken a trip without my husband, so for me that was bold! I flew with my Pfaff machine as carry-on luggage through five different airports and what an experience that was, believe me! I don't know whether I'd try that again! I had an absolute ball and I made a wild medallion-type quilt, using four of Freddy's chicken blocks off-center as the medallion. Then when I got back home, I went back to using patterns, for security I guess, but I found I was much more free in using my imagination to depart from the pattern as well as be more adventurous with color. I am inspired to find a group like this one here and hope it will motivate me to go further with just letting go and doing my own thing. Bye for now, Andrea