5/21/16 - NT (and CCLQ) in the Wild {At the SECU Family House}

Welcome to the next edition of NT in the Wild!!  This time NTers were spotted at the SECU Family House in Chapel Hill.  There were some members of CCLQ, as well.  All told, there were 15 quilters in attendance!!  Special thanks to Candy for arranging the location for us.  It worked out SEW well!!!

Everyone pitched in to get things set up and then the machines started humming.

Ella spent the day quilting a wall hanging for her dining room:

Candy did some cutting:

Linda prepared fabrics for cutting:

Joy spent the day at the ironing board pressing fusible interfacing to the inside of T-shirts:

Jean stopped in to chat for a bit:

Carol worked on trimming threads...

From THIS amazing Coin Quilt:

Kirsten and Britt were a little late:

Ella should make extra sure that her Iris Quilt goes home with her... Joy's favorite flower:

Margaret sewed Maple Leaf blocks for the Ft. McMurray (Canada) fire victims:

Deborah made progress on her Little Wonky Star blocks:

Cheryl K. also made Maple Leaf blocks:

Gayle chatted and...

... Worked from the drawing that she came up with for a NEW project last night:

Linda experimented with a new block pattern:

Jean made her way around the room before taking her leave:

Candy made another Knitting Tote Bag:

Kirsten made progress on her Smith Mountain Morning quilt from Bonnie Hunter:

THIS will be Margaret's next quilt:

She spent some time cutting it out:

Britt did some cutting, too:

Kirsten pressed block sections before joining them together... Make it snappy!!  Joy decided to share the ironing board:

Helena wanted a look at Margaret's book:

Smile:

Oops!  Let's try that again:

LUNCH TIME!!!

After lunch, Dee Dee laid out her beautiful batik quilt to test border sizes:

Here's a close-up of a section of blocks:

Experiment complete, Linda presented the block to Gayle for her Birthday Quilt:

Helena cut background sashing for her Day Break Quilt:

With trimming complete, Carol moved on to her current hand quilting project:

Britt made progress on a gift quilt:

Margaret is happily piecing away:

Ta! Da!!  Deborah completed her first "big block" for her Wonky Star project:

Kirsten managed to get some more block parts together:

What are you working on now, Dee Dee???  See if YOU can tell:

Joy is STILL hogging the ironing board:

Oh, LOOK!!  These are the Maple Leaf blocks that Dee Dee has collected:

A zipper AND a magnetic snap was installed...

... On Britt's new Crossbody Bag:

Britt's Gift Quilt is coming together nicely:

Gayle enlarged her original drawing to the size of the quilt:

Now that her experiment is done, Linda began working on another quilt:

Here are BOTH small AND enlarged versions of Gayle's drawing:

So many design decisions to be made:

While most were winding down, Britt and Candy (in the background) were still sewing:

What a WONDERFUL day!!  Thank you, again, to Candy for arranging this Sew Day!!!

Until next time...
Quilt til you wilt!!!