I've always had an interest in quilting and I've even done a few baby and child-sized quilts in the past.

I'm ready for full-size now, though. Any tips that may help me not make a bad beginner's blunder?

I wish you luck on your full size Quilting. I have never done quilting, although it looks interesting. You must have patience to start something from one thread and make it into a full blown quilt. Good Luck!!

Thanks, Cassie. I'm not so sure I have the patience needed, if that's a prerequisite! But I do know that I enjoy the finished products enough to want to stick with it. I'm not sure I'd do all of it by hand... well scratch that, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't. It's machine quilting that would interest me and I think that wouldn't take as much patience maybe.

Wow, this is one area I'm not really good at. When I was growing up in my mother's house she always used to invite some of her friends over for quilting. It was a nice tradition and I often helped out a bit, but I never quite learned. It's been years since I last participated in quilting!

The baby quilts I did in the past were a lot of fun. The quilt blocks were actually iron-on transfers that were then done in needlework. I just transferred them onto white cloth, did the colorful needlework, and then sewed those white pieces onto larger colorful blocks. I enjoyed every moment of it.

This is something that I have never done but would love to do. I want to take my sons old baby clothes and make a quilt out of the clothes for each of them. But have just not gotten around to learning how to do it. I do still have the clothes though to make the patchwork.

What I can advise you (and I asked my mother this...as I don't quilt!) start with simple colours then move on to more complicated patterns. Make it with all the love you can :-) because as my mother says a well made quilt becomes a priceless family heirloom.

I would love to try it out now, but for me quilting has always been a family activity for as long as I can remember. So having no one else to work on it with me, I don't feel like starting alone. Maybe the next time my sister comes to visit we'll come up with something.

Yes your right it can be something that becomes a heirloom. I know the quilt that my husbands grandmother made him we still have and it means a lot to my hubby. We had to recently quit using it because it was getting ruined by all the wear and tear. I would love to one day restore it for him as a surprise. But I have no idea if that is even possible to do?

Oh how neat you will have to show us your work. My daughter has a quilt that was hand made one I bought from the Amish and it is wonderful and to think they did it all by hand.