I live in the beautiful Finger Lakes of New York. I'm married, have four children and six grandchildren. My most favorite things in the world to do are quilt and work with the computer. Since I have started designing this web site I find it very difficult to find time for much quilting.

I'd always wanted to make a quilt but had no idea where to begin. In 1994 my son's girlfriend (now wife) gave him a lapquilt. After studying it a little, I decided I could do that. So I began teaching myself. Just started making cardboard templates and very difficult patterns (which I wasn't aware of until I began to sew). At that time, I thought the only way to quilt a quilt was by hand so that's how I began. Believe me, once I realized you could do it by machine that was the end of hand quilting for me. I'm amazed how well it turned out. Soon it will be pictured on my Quilts page.

Fortunately, in my area at that time, there were many quilting shows on T.V. I taped all of them. I learned a lot from Eleanor Burns, Sharlene Jorgensen, Kaye Wood, Harriet Hargrave, Donna from Fairfield Processing and many others whose names have slipped my mind.

At that time i had a 1950's or 60's (bought used and am not sure) singer machine and was trying to do stippling and fancy applique. I was annoyed most of the time. It seemed as if I had to really tug the fabric through and the thread kept breaking. After I went out and bought a Bernina, I really perfected my stippling skills, which is my favorite to do. Amazingly enough, even my satin stitch for my applique has gotten considerablly better. I always tell people who compliment my work and say they couldn't do that---Practice, practice and more practice. It's taken me 4 1/2 years to begin to be happy with my work.

My username of quiltress came about because I used to love to quilt. That was before I became a PSPaholic! The only quilting I have done in the past several months is making bible covers for my church to take to the girl's detention home that we go to.
BUT, I have recently enrolled in online classes at Quilt University I'm taking courses at the present time learning how to use EQ4, but they also offer quiltmaking lessons.

As mentioned earlier, I am a homemaker. My children are all grown and married and out on their own. My husband works the afternoon shift, which gives me plenty of 'play' time on the computer! *g*

After I discovered the internet, I wanted to display my quilts and some of the quilt blocks from swap exchanges I was involved in. I obtained this site at geocities and soon realized I needed to learn HTML. I took several different classes online and searched for tutorials.
Quite naturally, (soon after working on my website and obtaining graphics from others,) I realized I needed to find a way to design my own images. Soon I learned of PSP, downloaded a trial version, signed up for a class and,I was hooked! *s* Have taken several classes and definitely still learning.

I have been a member of PSPUG since April, 1999. I registered with the WebRing in May, and soon after became a webring checker. I really enjoyed webring checking as I got to view sites I would never have gone to on my own. Then in September I was pleasantly surprised when I was asked if I would like to become Assistant Webring Manager, soon after to be promoted up to Webring Manager a position I truly enjoyed until I felt it better to resign and devote more time to the Education Department, which I had joined in September, 1999, and had been actively involved in teaching some of the online classes. In January, 2000 I was asked if I would be interested in becoming Co-Cordinator of the Education Dept. I have to admit I was more than a little cautious in determining whether I was ready to commit to that! But almost a year later, I am very happy in my new position and am finding it for the most part very gratifying. As well as the above, I also host the Open Forum Chat on Thursday afternoons, 5:00pm EST on IRC StarChat.Net channel #psp/group so if you get a chance drop on by and visit. I am proud to be a member of the PSPUG team and always try to do the best job I can.

It is now December of 2003. I have eight grandchildren now! I'm still involved with PSPUG in the background as Webring co-ordinator and database technician. My hobbies have changed again. I'm now involved in Scrapbooking and Card Making. Instead of using fabric I'm now using paper to make paper piecings for some of my scrapbook pages. If you would like to see some of the cards I've made for Christmas this year, please go to Christmas Cards

To see some of the fabric paper piecing that I did, check out my Paperpiecing pages to see blocks from the swap I was in. What fun that was.

I've added the first quilt that I've made (Sampler) on my quilt page if you'd like to see it.

About My Salvation--coming soon.

I finally have it up---
My Testimony
(about my Salvation)

See what God wants you to know, NOW!

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