Hello! I'm Mechtild

That's German and hard to pronounce.

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How did I start quilting?

Growing up I remember my mom sewing clothes for our family. She taught me how to sew in my teens. I continued to sew clothes until I was pregnant with our first child. Letting needles and scissors lay around with a little one didn't seem like a good idea so I stopped for a few years. 

We had three more kids and moved across the Atlantic.

Some day a few years ago, I saw some quilting fabric, got intrigued and bought it. After that first quilt I was hooked and haven't had a day without piecing, quilting or plotting new quilts since.

Our last name is Steinert which translates to stone, hence the name QuiltStones.

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Quilting is besides training for my next marathon or triathlon my safe haven which carries me through the day raising the little crazy ones. I get inspiration everywhere I look but mostly they come to me on my runs. I love to just start with an idea and see where it takes me. My approach is more or less organized chaos or the "no-rules" rule. I start with an idea and along the way the direction changes completely. Often that means I buy fabric without having a specific project in mind. I know someday it will  find its way into the project it was supposed to be in. This is also my favorite part of starting a new project, diving into fabric and letting it tell me what it wants to be.