9/5/19: CCLQ at DeeDee's

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  On September 5th a dozen quilters plus our Jr. Quilter met at DeeDee's home.  The group signed up for the upcoming three months. Check the blog for the updated calendar. Enjoy seeing the beautiful work by this group of friends.  A couple of links are included for patterns and tutorials.  

Today is Jean's birthday!  Happy happy birthday Jean!

Deborah made a custom grocery fat sack for Jean.   Pattern was from Terri Atkinson. 

Jean completed her beautiful embroidered and hand painted botanical quilt. 

Joanna shared the pattern for half-square triangles from Lee Heinrich's  "Freshly Pieced."

Joanna found this wonderful fabric at Pineapple Fabrics and plans to make a Wedding Chuppah (canopy) for her  grand-daughter's wedding. 

Here's the concept for the Chuppah.  Joanna plans to paint the concentric circles on the turquoise fabric. 

Joanna's Pineapple Fabric purchases

Half-sqaure triangle paper piecing technique

Gayle found just the right fabric to complete a pillow made from her gelli printed fabrics.  Enjoy the gallery of photos that follow of Gayle's latest prints.  

Gayle made this beautiful journal from gelli printed fabrics. 

Gayle appliquéd various shapes cut from printed fabric onto a background piece. 

More gelli printed art from Gayle

Gayle completed this colorful donation quilt.




Ella had a wonderful story to tell about her favorite turquoise necklace from her grandson.



Ella created this lovely bag to match her necklace. 

Candy made a colorful bag using the pattern from Ella's bag. 

Close up of Candy's bag with better lighting. 

Margaret shared her completed iron tote. 

Margaret created this quilt for her son as a gift for his first apartment. 

Margaret used cool "movie credit" fabric for the back of her son's quilt.

Margaret stitched this 18 piece block with pattern from Leah Day.  

Carol made this Halloween snack mat for her grandchildren.

Carol created these blocks with fabric from Pineapple Fabrics. 

DeeDee finished this awesome Star Wars quilt using the Quilt As You Go method. 

DeeDee had enough left over fabric to piece the back.  Way to go DeeDee!

DeeDee found these lovely cards while on a trip to the mountains. 

These cards might serve as inspiration for an art quilt. 

Joy was happy to bee with the group today along with the Jr. Quilter.

Lynda has made progress on her pomegranate block. 

Ruth B brought her Christmas stocking fabric for next week's project at Family House.

Until next time, happy quilting!

8/29/19: CCLQ at Deborah's

Welcome to the August 29th meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  This week twelve quilters met at Deborah's home. What a creative group! Not only do our members design and make quilts, we also create our own fabric, make clothing, create beautiful embroidered pieces, embellish clothing, paint, knit and crochet.  In terms of artistic pursuits, you name it and someone in our group has explored that medium! Get ready for a lot of photos of the creative process at it's best!

Carol was the winner of the pineapple charm!  Ella's friend Debbie sent Ella this charm to give to the person who spent the most at the Pineapple Fabric sale.  The charm will get passed on to the winner at the next Pineapple Fabric sale. Ladies, start saving your pennies now!



Carol made these adorable mug rugs with fabric from Pineapple.

Carol created some spooky Halloween snack mats for her grand children. 

Ella shared this wonderful donation quilt. 

Deborah completed sewing the Blooming Nine Patch top!  She plans to add borders to make it a queen sized quilt. 

Jean showed a sample of a Christmas stocking that our group will make for US Service members on  Sept. 12 at Family House. 

Jean made this stunning star quilt for a guest at Family House. 

Jean shared this idea via her iPhone about a technique to cover holes in sweaters.   If you have a hole in a  sweater, you simply add bits of fabric and embroider over it!  Cool idea!

Here's a full view iPhone photo of someone modeling an embellished sweater.  

Ruth B completed this lovely blue and yellow quilt top.   The center was already pieced and Ruth added borders. It will be a donation quilt.

Cheryl K finished this colorful baby quilt which for her daughter in law's brother's new baby. 

DeeDee found some wonderful Rayon fabric and plans to make a  top. 

Here's the pattern DeeDee plans to use. 

Check out this cool pattern DeeDee shared for making a fleece jacket. 

Gayle was happy to share this awesome zipper pouch made from her Gelli Print fabrics.

Close up of Gayle's wonderful designs!

Gayle used a variety of her prints to create this composition of blocks which will be a cover for a pillow. 

What's this?  Gayle even Gelli printed her favorite pair of pants to cover a stain!  

Joy stitched this blog hop mug rug.

Here's the back of the mug rug.

Margaret shared this kitty table topper with fabric from Pineapple Fabrics. 

Close up of fabric and kitty stitches.

Back of table topper.

Margaret completed this awesome table runner for her dad's mountain home.

Margaret worked on the binding for an iron caddy. 

Inside of iron caddy with heat resistant fabric.

The pattern

Lynda was eager to tell us about the Sue Spargo quilt.  She brought two blocks to show us today. 

Here's the pattern photo and the almost completed block for "The Summer Linden Tree." 

Close up of Lynda's exquisite embroidery work.

Isn't this gorgeous?

Lynda said she will need to add these adorable honey bees. 

Here's the "Red Mangrove Tree" with pattern. 

Candy completed this stunning modern quilt and added an extra row to make it a donation quilt for the bunk bed project. 

Here's the pattern for Candy's quilt from Colourwerx.


Until next time,  here's a quote for this week:

Creativity is contagious!  Pass it on!  Albert Einstein