2/22/22 - Zoom-y NT Nights

Welcome to the February meeting of the NT Nights Quilt Bee!!  There were quilts to see and interesting discussions, too.  The seven (7) members in attendance, included one of our two new members.  Welcome, Stacy!

Group Photo...

Show and Tell...

Joy started us off  with this view of the other side of her new studio.  The longarm has been reassembled:

She also showed one of her recent Project QUILTING entries, along with a preview of one of two entries for this month's TABLE SCRAPS Challenge:

Maggie...

Maggie loves tulips and shared her entry for the February 2022 TABLE SCRAPS Challenge:

Stacy's current handwork project is this lovely shawl:

Karen W...

Karen has been knitting, too:

Karen attended a quilt retreat at Lake Gaston over the weekend and completed...

Not one:

Not two:

Not three:

But FOUR fabulous baby quilt tops over the weekend:

Sherry...

... Shared the ARTPRO link (find at the bottom of this post) that her daughter had forwarded:

The New Bend...

Artists paying homage to Gees Bend quilters:

Britt told us about a realistic quilter/thread painter/fabric artist (@claranartey) she had seen on Instagram.  Here's a LINK to her blog and her SHOP:

I was only able to capture blurry images during the meeting, but visited her IG page for a better look at Clara's work:

Maggie finished the binding on this Christmas quilt...

Quilted by Britt:

Speaking of Britt...

... She puttered with pressing and loading the next quilt on the longarm during tonight's meeting.

Britt showed off the mug rug that Joy made in February's Color of the Month:

Here's the back:

Britt has been working on her Hourglass Leader/Ender Challenge... From 2017!  It's for her UnBegun Challenge hosted by the Quilters Knitting group on Ravelry

The ladies in our Thursday Group are doing the UnBegun Challenge, too:

Kirsten (and Sera) joined us from Florida:

Sera is busy racking up Dog Show Rally awards and Kirsten just completed her nephew's quilt:

The phenomenal quilting was challenging to capture on the computer screen:

And one for her other nephew, too:

Orlando Magic basketball fan:

Kirsten also showed of the Santa pillow that she gave her mother for Christmas:

Stacy...

... Is participating in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge:

Twinkle Stars...

And Blackford Beauty blocks...

 ... Are her focus for the year:

I think she enjoyed the meeting:

We had a discussion about Spoonflower and DOQ's guest speaker this month, Susie Monday.  Sherry inquired about putting photos on fabric:

This is the product that Maggie used for printing photos (along with sentiments added in Word) and Joy had someone else do the photos for a quilt she made:

Someone suggested checking with Mary Glenn's printing company and Karen relayed her story of making quilt labels at Spoonflower.

Sherry sent the following after the meeting...

Hi, Joy, here's the link. I'm not sure why it's in Chinese since I think it is a New York gallery. Nice meeting tonight. Thanks for setting it all up every month.  - Sherry

The New Bend (artpro.com)

Thanks for that, but I just send out the meeting notice and write up the posts.  Kirsten is the one who sets up the meeting.  Thanks for that, Kirsten!!

Until next time...

Let's go SEW!!!