12/16/21 CCLQ @ ZoomBee

Welcome to the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters weekly meeting!

Thanks to Gayle hosting for Ella (we miss you and send hope and prayers your way).  Planning on a Virtual Sew Day on January 1st 2022.  Wow are we just zipping into the 20's decade or what.   Keep positive and enjoy the Holidays.

Carol has started on a new Baby Quilt and showed the Thistle block.  It's a lot less frustrating than attempting to figure the "features" of Zoom.  But we sure appreciate her diligence.

From Elizabeth Hart's Fancy Forest Pattern

Lynda Mac reported the "cotton blanket" shipment to New Zealand arrived without issue and the Family has to wait till Christmas to enjoy it.  Lets hope the next mailing to Seattle continues the trend.  Brynn's "cotton blanket" is still in the works,  guessing it might just get hand delivered.  No pics but great story about the mischief the "Elf on a Shelf" is getting into now that he's down from the shelf .... piling books,  Angel Wings in flour, driving around with Barbie in a convertible (not so crazy with the NZ weather).

Linda H. is about to get her Christmas Tree standing and trimmed.   

Maggie busy making drawstring gift bags and fabric ornaments.  

Finished putting together the bordered squares made from a matching Jellyroll & Charm pack.

   

Ruth B. is still dealing with email technical issues after having been hacked.   But it didn't keep her from seeing her DC daughters posting of their festive and "Pretty in Pink" Christmas tree.  She is busy finishing up pillow cases to go along with her already gifted Black and White Quilt.

 

Britt is far ahead of most of us in getting a Christmas Tree up and decorated.   A lovely tree skirt to finish.

Also getting some piecing done on swap blocks for Joy's Sweet Kisses quilt in exchange for some half square triangles Joy is making.

 

No picture of her Coffee Mug but she has the one that says "I Tried"  ... examples from web.

  

Gayle's sporting a new hairdo that is catching the eye of fellow gentlemen dinners.  But it may have been her boots and not the hairdo ... either way it left her with a big smile.

 

She is in baby quilt mode for a couple of 5th Generation nieces that are both expecting.  The baby boy quilt is on the design wall.  Waiting to hear if she needs another boy or girl quilt.  

Until next week keep up the Holiday Cheer!

12/9/21 - CCLQ @ ZoomBEE

 

 Welcome to the meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters!! 

Thanks to Ruth S. for hosting this zoom meeting.   We are quickly approaching the end of 2020 and so looking forward to 2021 for all the quilting projects and friendship we can share. Plans are in the works to have a Virtual Sew Day on New Year's Day.  Hopefully Joy will be able the spread the news to all versions (Monthly, Weekly, and Nite) of the Nimble Thimbles.

Linda told us about her recent adventure with Korean massage/treatments.   She highly recommends the multi “step” treatments to relax and come away with oh so soft skin.   All 3 of the DKB concerts were Great.   Mixture of songs and costumes each night along with guest appearances of other performers.  The Band's "Army" of fans is quiet friendly and shared ideas of what to do with confetti saved from shows.  Just like our quilting community they bond over a shared passion for a subject and can recognize like minded people when traveling.  And she is sporting new glasses.

Carol had a minor design surprise where the “CARS” in orange ended up on the bottom of this bag.

 

She made bowl cozy’s and grocery bags of matching fabric for the grandchildren's Teacher Gifts.

 

Design update… swapped the beady eyes for a darker bead.

Gayle continues to work on her Dresden plate quilt.  She also had a BIG organizational fabric day.  Small pieces cut down to standard sizes and yardage organized by size.  All fitting in her sewing room cabinets with doors.

Candy has a "Tree" of gift bags all done and ready for giving.

She showed another spectacular batik she received from friends and now has to find inspiration to design a wall hanging or quilt that will properly showcase the design.

Lynda Mac is headed to the Post Office to get her gift quilts on their journey to New Zealand. She plans to finish up the binding on two more quilts before Christmas and hopefully doing the final meeting to close out the Business (both happy and sad I'm sure).

Maggie started a full size quilt using a matching Jellyroll and Charm pack.  Shared her method of arranging blocks on design wall then pinning a whole row to take to the machine for stitching. ... Unable to find hot glue gun using Elmer's is working to hold the buttons to the center of a bunch of ornaments.   A single staple in the center is so much easier then needle and thread.

 

Ruth is sporting a new haircut and is attempting to find un-flawed pillow cases to go along with her Black and White quilt.   She is having issues with flannel binding and plans to trim back the batting to reduce the bulk in the binding.  

Dee Dee has a Heron panel she plans to make into a pillow.

She also has plans for 2022 to use up her half a shelf of fat quarters.  She purchased a book Fat Quarter Fun to help with the goal. 

 

Britt is busy quilting on the long-arm customer christmas quilts and finished her Mom's first cat quilt on the sit down mid-arm machine.   She told us about a new bar in Hillsborough, Yonder that has multiple musicians performing on Wednesday nights.  She is also organizing like Gayle and taking stock of all her UFO's to work on in 2022.  This lead to a discussion of fabric purchase sizes Britt now buys 1 yard cuts instead of FQ and Ella always buys 3 yard cuts to make sure she has enough for any project down the road.

Cheryl is making some small gifts to share with her book group.  Ornaments and unique book marks that fit over the corner of the page.

  

Seems that using lattice instead curtain rod is working well to hang the butterfly quilt. (Go Stephen)

Ruth S. was thrilled to gift her 1970's tied tree skirt to her son's friend's family who often spends vacations up at the Bluff.  She gave us a peak to her start on her Son-in-Law's Portrait.

  Sew Until Next Time!

12/2/21 - CCLQ @ ZoomBEE

 Welcome to another meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters!! 

Thanks to DeeDee for Hosting this zoom meeting.  We'll be zooming for the next few months.

 

Carol has been working on cone shaped Christmas toppers very cute "beady little eyes".

Lynda Mac is finishing things up and reflecting on a very productive year making 9 tops and completing 7.

Ruth S. is also finishing up gifts for her extended family and looking forward to a Grand Party soon in Boston.  She's about to begin another face Portrait quilt.  We all can't wait to see how she decides to handle crew cut hair.

Ruth B. has got her donation baby quilt pieces put together.  And told us of her trip to Virginia where the big excitement at the Holiday Market where secret service agents cleared space for VP Kamala Harris to also shop and enjoy the market.

Gayle wow'ed us with here interpretation of Lori Holt blocks made from her simple shapes ... with a few of Gayle's own creation.  The Lori Holt fabrics look wonderful with the mini-zigzag applique stitching.

 

DeeDee made a Pirate floor pillow "Shiver Me Timbers" to go along with another quilt.  She also showed her Christmas Cardinals throw. 

What do Shiver me timbers mean?

The phrase `shiver me timbers' is a comic oath -- `by and large' ... The site's glossary says "shiver me timbers" is "like saying, `Oh, My!' like my legs are shaking." By this thinking, "timbers" is either a slang word for legs, or a literal reference to wooden legs.

 

Cheryl K. is planning to hang her Butterfly quilt replacing the Birds.  She continues on the mend but is getting a bit stir crazy with the boot ... but still smiling. 

Candy is working on little Holiday Block gifts and some gift bags for her Massachusetts trip.

Maggie is doing binding on a small carpenter star and making a cross stitch stocking cuff for her future daughter.

  

Until Next Time!