Here are some general shots of the meeting and the shop.
Above is the work that my group did on the longarm. After the general demo, they broke us into smaller groups, had another little lecture on actually using the machine and then we were allowed to try it. I stepped up to the plate and tried the machine out first. This means that I set the tone and you cannot see my work. It wasn’t that interesting – just a bunch of loops. Linda and Mom went after me and you can see their work is a lot freer and a lot more individual.
Here is the big computerized machine that they program to do create certain designs in certain areas of a quilt. While nobody actually said, it sounds like they don’t do very complicated free motion quilting. I think this means that while I may do some longarm quilting on my own, I will still use Colleen for the quilts I want done a certain way.
Here we are at our worktable sewing. We had to share the room with the Strip Club who were meeting on a day that they normally don’t get to meet. We weren’t that happy with having to share the room, mostly because we weren’t expecting it, I think. The two women closest to the camera in the middle of the table were from the Strip Club. Justine, in red, actually knew one of our members and may join the group. The big arrow points to my machine and my piece. In the lower left you can see Mom’s machine and in the lower right you can see Julie’s hands working on her DH’s Snidely Whiplash cape.