Social media is a great place to meet and greet other quilters, quilt professionals and manufacturers or distributors of quilt-related merchandise.  Where else can you have 2000 friends and only a couple dozen are family members?  Where else can you get (mostly) positive feedback on something you’ve accomplished and want to show it off to the your quilt world?

It’s also a great place to pick quilter’s brains!  Recently, I took an informal poll and asked my Facebook quilt friends:  “What are the TOP FIVE quilt notions you would recommend for a beginning quilter?”  The results were somewhat varied but what it really did was to make me put some thought into my own top five quilt notions that I would suggest to a beginning quilter.