8/20/20 - CCLQ @ ZoomBEE

Welcome to another meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters!!  This is our 22nd week of online gatherings (minus the one in-person outdoor party that we enjoyed a couple of months ago.)  Our members are thankful to Deborah for scheduling our meetings, taking notes, and it group photo, too!  Thanks go out to Ruth B. for serving as our hostess for this week's meeting.  Thoughts go out to those members who weren't able to be with us today.  We hope YOU will be able to join us again, soon!

Show and Tell...

Deb:

Working on Storm at Sea 3 inch blocks.

Carol: 

Making Halloween placemats for the grandkids...

She's using scraps for the backs of them:

Joy:

Picking out stitches on a long arm project.  :o((

Working on some fun rail fence blocks using scraps from DeeDee.

Candy:

Tried a new pattern for making masks that are more comfortable:

Working on the Venus quilt using Fossil Fern fabrics:

Linda H:

Shared the tessellated cat quilt. Made for her daughter’s college quilt from an idea she got from Cheryl Breeze:

Cheryl K:

(Literally) Just got back from the mountains.  She and her husband had a wonderful time.  Cheryl will be working on finishing up a bunk bed donation quilt in the coming days.

Ruth B:

Making great progress with black and white quilt!  Has two sections plus four corners to sew together and the top will be done:

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Until next time...

BEE sew safe!!!

CCLQ News - Quilty Hugs for Joanna

Welcome to a special edition of CCLQ News!!  One of our members has been "out of commission" for a number of weeks now.  (The ever thoughtful) Britt decided that we should send a Quilty Hug.

What's a quilter to do???

She set out to find a quilt top that would be just right for its recipient.

First, wondering if our group Pineapple quilt might work:

The quilt was deemed "not PURPLE enough" and it was determined that it would be too small.  Joy dragged out her  one of her Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilts...

... And the corresponding quilt back:

We decided that it might be too big, but that sparked the memory of Britt's quilt from a long ago Strips That Sizzle class with Sarah.

However...

It would need borders.  A couple of options included a thin purple border with a wider green border...

Which looked really good, but it wasn't purple enough for the quilts purple-loving recipient.  More purple looked more better:

Then we moved on to the matter of a backing fabric...

This gorgeous fabric was in Britt's stash, but would require quite a bit of enhancement to make it large enough to fit the quilt top:

Joy had just the right backing fabric in her stash!  It mirrored the border fabrics perfectly and there was plenty of it, so that only one seam was needed to make it fit the top of the quilt:

Britt loaded it on the longarm, quilted it up and shared it at last week's CCLQ Zoom meeting:

With the binding and label applied, Britt dropped the quilt off...

... For a photo op and next-day delivery:

Delivery day...

Card first:

Oh!  The color got the desired response:

Stopping to read the label...

... Here is what she saw:

Fully opened to reveal the quilt's inner beauty:

A selfie with the appreciative recipient and the delivery girl:

Suddenly, her cotton blanket was too heavy...

... And Joanna requested its removal, so she could nap beneath her new quilt:

Britt even had a coordinating batik in her stash for the binding (as seen in the photo above) and SEW pleased to be able to contribute to the group's caretaking effort:

This is a full view of the completed quilt:

Until next time...

Sending quilty hugs!!!

8/13/20 - CCLQ @ ZoomBEE

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters!!  We've been meeting online for the past umpteen weeks.  Funny, it's beginning to feel as if we've always met this way!  Thank you to Deborah for scheduling, (substitute) hosting, and taking notes for this week's meeting.  What would we do with out you?!

This week's group portrait...

... Was provided by Jean.  Thanks for taking care of this for us.

SHOW AND TELL...

Candy

Hasn't been in the sewing room this week. Ordered Fossil Fern fabric from Thousands of Bolts. It arrived, but is in the other room. Plans to use the fabric to make the Venus (LINK) quilt by Gudrun @ GE Designs:

Britt

Needs to find a binding for the Strips That Sizzle (LINK) UFO she just quilted:

Joy had just the right backing for it:

Lynda Mac

Shes been doing lots and lots of cutting for her Lorna Doone quilt, but has started making some blocks with fussy cut Cabbage Roses:

She enjoyed sewing, but now has to cut lots and lots of triangles for the pieced sashing:

Deborah

Working on her Storm at Sea UFO and needs to have a consult with Dee Dee about some of the pieces and parts:

Maggie

Making blocks for a Labyrinth quilt using a pattern that Joy gave her:

Note:  Deborah would like to borrow it next and then Candy would like it afterwards!!

Linda

Promised to share the Cat Quilt next week, as she forgot to take it out to show today.  She received an email from ColourWerx (LINK) and purchased a new pattern called All Stacked Up:

She's thinking of making a calmer version like these:

Jean

Working on embroidery quilting her Atmosphere Quilt:

It's SEW much easier with her magnetic hoop:

Ruth S.

TELL - Added borders to her Atmosphere Quilt. She's dropping it off at the longarmer's tomorrow.

Ruth is busy organizing her sewing room.  Her show was this wonderful cutting table from Wayfair.com with drawers and lots of storage space:

Joy

Has sewn our Pineapple Donation quilt into rows, like the ones shown below:

She made this block using scraps from Dee Dee (Thanks, Dee Dee!) to finish off the 3 x 4 layout:

Mini Magic Star quilt top:

Find the charm square friendly tutorial for these blocks from Joy @ The Joyful Quilter. (LINK)

Carol

Found a panel from the VA Shop Hop that CCLQ did a few years ago.  She is framing the animals and will assemble a quilt for her friend's first grand baby.

Finished the Disappearing 4-Patch with a Twist top for a friend.  It's made from 36 4-Patch blocks that her friend's mother made:

Ruth B.

Working on setting triangles for the Black and White quilt. It's proving to be a challenge:

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Until next time...

BEE sew safe!!!