9/13/18: CCLQ at Candy's

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  Eight quilters met at Candy's home this week.  We were all grateful that the weather was not so bad so we could get together and share our wonderful interest of fabric, stitching, and quilts. We discussed how we were preparing for Hurricane Florence.  DeeDee brought wonderful surprises for everyone!  Read on the find out about the surprises.

DeeDee gave this marvelous moonlight panel to Ella.

DeeDee gave this apple fabric to Deborah to go with her fruit and vegetable fabric collection. 

Deborah shared this wonderful quilt made by Cynthia Latta, our past DOQ president.   Cynthia made this quilt for the Camp New Hope Auction and Deborah's sister-in-law won the bid on this lovely quilt.   Deborah is adding a sleeve so her sister-in-law can hang the quilt in her home. 

Candy's show was the new navy quilt on her bed with the lovely yellow triangle bed runner.  

This wonderful wall quilt matches the bed runner. 

Meow...interesting angle on DeeDee's latest art quilt project.  

Ruth and Candy look at the schedule for the next few months. 

Candy added the drawstring to her mini-quilt block bag. 

Callie the kitten and DeeDee have some fun!

Margaret revealed more stunning stars for her star quilt. 

Linda H joined us today since the school system was closed in preparation for the storm. Linda is currently working on a baby quilt for a co-worker.  The nursery theme is Peter Rabbit and Linda just happened to have a collection of 15 Peter Rabbit fabrics in her fabric stash! Lucky baby!

More news from Linda H:  she rescued a kitten from the parking lot at Walgreens.  She is fostering this kitten and named him Wally.  

Callie cuddled up on the New Hope Quilt.

DeeDee is making an art quilt inspired by the artist Paul Klee. 

Surprise!  DeeDee cleaned out her sewing space and brought this fabric to share!

Ruth, Candy and Ella take a closer look and make selections. 

DeeDee gave Lynda this selection of Martha Negley fabrics.   Lynda has a plan for a quilt using these fabrics. 

Lynda went shopping at Wish Upon a Quilt in Raleigh with Britt and found these wonderful border fabrics for her Kaffe Fassett quilt. 

Who's that peeking behind the door? Could it be Chip?

Chip and Callie frollic at the end of the meeting! 

Quilters had lunch at Stir King in Mebane, NC.  

Until next time, be safe during the storm and happy quilting. 

9/6/18: CCLQ at Cheryl K's

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  This week ten quilters met at Cheryl K's house.  Interesting coincidence....it was binding and bag day.  Read on to find out why.

Cheryl worked on sewing a label on a memorial quilt. 

Ella sewed binding on the Kansas Quilt.

Lynda sewing binding on a quilt yet to be revealed. 

  Margaret also sewed binding on the Dot quilt today. 

Gayle worked on her Carolina art quilt piece while Candy worked on a cross-stitch project. 

Show and tell started off with Deborah's Dapple Quilt throw made with left over blocks from a queen size quilt. 

Margaret shared this delightful Christmas table runner. This piece was a challenge  project in which  Margaret and a friend got together and cut out quilt kits and set a goal to have them finished by December!  Well done!

Margaret used a pizza pan to mark a large arc for her machine quilting.  Cool idea Margaret!

Special bonus...the back is a fall table runner!  

Margaret brought a sample Bead Bag from DOQ with directions for Candy and others on how to make a drawstring bag. 

Candy tries out the bag and Margaret reviewed the directions. 

Ruth made two bags...one for storing hole-free plastic grocery bags to be use for kitty litter clean-up. 

This nice colorful bag will hold the rest of the grocery bags. 

What's cooking Jean?  

Jean and Rick volunteer at Thanksgiving at Family House.  This year Jean is making aprons for all the cooks and servers to wear. There's talk of making an apron of the month or at least aprons for each holiday!  

What wonderful embroidery work!

Jean also volunteers weekly at Family House and  reported the cross body bag project has taken off.  Several guests are getting one to one instruction from Jean on how to make a bag. 

DeeDee reported that she's almost finished with  the renovation of her quilting studio. She discovered while reorganizing that she has 10 PhD's  (projects half done) and 2 technical UFO's...Joy says you have to cut the fabric for it to be a UFO (unfinished object.)  If it's just fabric selections in a bag, it's a "Wish and a Dream." We're looking forward to seeing DeeDee's new sewing/creating space!

Cheryl showed this wonderful baby quilt.   The nursery theme was nautical and Cheryl already had these fabrics on hand.  Way to shop your stash Cheryl!

For all the quilters working on the Blooming Nine Patch Project...here's page two on organizing your blocks.  Hopefully you can enlarge this photo on your iPad or iPhone to actually read it.  If not, contact Joy for a hard copy. 

Here's the cross stitch that Candy's making for her niece who lives in Norway. 

Gayle is happy to be cleaning stuff out and brought this quilt frame to give away.   

Ella was the lucky recipient. 

Gayle also brought a large bag of scraps...can't remember who took that home.  Was it Ella?

Lynda showed this lovely quilt made with Heather Bailey fabrics. The quilting is finished and Lynda is now adding the binding. 

closer view

The back is also interesting.

Lynda shared this picture of a Kaffe Fassett quilt she is currently making.  She has the center completed, but is not too fond of the pink diagonals.  Folks shared ideas on other color possibilities. 

Ella is happy to almost be finished with the binding on her quilt.  

Quilters had lunch at Rasa.  Deborah took a picture of this poster on the wall....ummmm...maybe there's a quilt idea?

Until next week, get your hand sewing projects ready!  Stay safe and quilt on.

8/30/18: CCLQ at Gayle's

Greetings from the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters!  This week eight quilters met at Gayle's home.  Get ready to see some wonderful quilts and some lovely paintings by Gayle. What a talented group of women!

Gayle quilted this stunning kaleidoscope quilt that Margaret pieced. Gayle plans to hang it in her new house. 

Close up of the quilting the back of the quilt

Gayle showed delightful acrylic paintings. Here's a wonderful floral painting.

What a wonderful tropical painting. 

Deborah has been hand quilting this Lone Star quilt for several years. This quilt was hand pieced by her grandmother. Deborah is taking out the quilting on some of the corners and will re-baste and quilt to alleviate too much puckering. 

Cheryl B shared this pattern that she will use to make a quilt for her grand-daughter-in-law. 

Close up

Joanna shared Ella's Kansas quilt. 

Beautiful quilting by Joanna!

Close up one

Close up two

Ella was so excited to see Joanna's quilting. She plans to get the binding on this quilt real soon. 

Everyone admired the Kansas Quilt. It made us think that fall is just around the corner. 

Candy shared this find on bobbins. These will fit a Bernina and are a much better deal at Mary Jo's, Joann's Fabric or on Amazon. 

Candy made a sample quilt block fabric gift bag.  

Margaret sewed on the porch last weekend when we had a cool spell. She finished this awesome 69"x85" Hour Glass quilt top.  The fabrics are from Lisa Foulks-Arnold's mother. 

Margaret worked on the binding on the Nancy Mahoney Dot to Dot quilt. 

Until next week, invest some time in quilting!