I think I'm at intermediate.

I hope to get MUCH better along the way.

For those just beginning --- the more quilts you make, the better you will become as a quilter!

I would rate myself intermediate at times and nearly-expert at times. My problem is that I have too many ideas in my head to be able to get them all done WELL, so I will sometimes settle for getting them done QUICK, and then things like accuracy in cutting and sewing will go out the window. I have to remind myself that it isn't a race, and that making a lovely piece is more important than getting it done fast, but usually (and much to my chagrin) "Lead Foot Louise" takes over!

Sometimes, though, I have incredibly beautiful skills and it is at those times that I would classify myself as near-expert. My needle-turn applique is like that: I never liked to do it before, but I am suddenly in a place mentally (I guess) where I am enjoying it a lot and am doing a lot of very fine hand-applique. With my very big hands, to get such fine work accomplished so well, I will sometimes hold out my work and complement myself ("damn, girl! you do good work!").

I don't do machine quilting, so I would rank myself a rank amateur in that department, but near expert at hand quilting.

If I just had more hours in the day, I could do it all......

Odessa

It's so neat to know that this old gal still has some brain cells left to learn something brand new and after just one year can actually make a decent quilt!! And the fun of being passionate about something creative (and being good at it) makes me so happy!!

Susan

If I were working as an electrician, I'd be somewhere between novice and journeyman. IOW, your lights would come on, but the wiring might be really nasty.

Lola

My piecing is very good (my seam ripper is my friend), because I'm fussy. My machine quilting is decent, though I need more free-motion practice.

Paper-piecing - eh, I can do it. I just don't like it enough to take the time to become an expert. I hate the ripping of the paper at the end. When someone makes a printer-friendly water-soluble stabilizer, I'll go for it!

Applique - I hate hand work, so I will never produce a beautiful Baltimore Album style quilt. I can machine applique like no one's business, but that look doesn't really appeal to me.

beverly

I am between a beginner and intermediate. I am not a perfectionist and can live quite comfortably with a fudged seam, slightly off matched seams so there are no blue ribbons in my house. I quilt totally for the enjoyment and to achieve a nice looking quilt, just not perfect most times. I can do or have tried most processes just don't like or do some. Most of my quilts have been hand quilted but I am moving to more FM machine, just don't have the process down pat yet. Great question.
Jeane