Welcome to the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters weekly meeting!
10 quilters participating today!
Britt shared her plan on a new "Old" pattern from Bonnie Hunters 2016 leader-ender hour glass scraps that will be part of the Ravelry's "Unbegun Challenge". So this is kind of 2 challenges in one. See below at the end of this post for a NT take on this idea ... Britt could even triple up on one project to fill 3 challenges. This put the UFO challenge into a backseat for now with 4 un-quilted tops still hanging in the closet .... they take up less room that way right? Way to always look on the bright side Britt.
Quiltville link
Carol was inspired by Britt's Kisses quilt to use up some her scraps the same way and has started on these cute little nine-patch blocks.
Carols Grandson got a vintage Gibson guitar and asked her to make a strap to replace the one he had. She used the existing one as a template (2"x60" with fusible fleece) and hardware from another to make this one. With quilting thread colors on to match the guitar and a geometric design. She found a video on Man Sew that helped.
Lynda is taking it easy waiting to get backup to 100% to finish up working on 2 quilts.
Candy revised the quilting on her latest hexagon table topper and used a zig-zag stitch in the center and point to point quilting towards the edges before doing a pillow case technique to finish this topper. She then shared her purchases from recent trip with Ruth S. to Pineapple.
Backing fabric for the cute yellow and turquoise baby top.
This pattern could be Candy's Unbegun Challenge now that she has the brown and blue fabrics.
Maggie has nothing completed but worked on Lemoyne Stars and the Macaroon Mystery. Plans to start on Table Scrap Challenge for January (Red/Snowmen) using a Cut Loose Press pattern found the red fabric after the meeting.
Cheryl had no show but told about finished wall hanging and table runner but the big news is automotive ... new vehicle and new camper. It will be awhile before they are able to pick up the camper in Texas but look out after they are hooked up. Bird Watchers beware.
Deborah is going with the "Just Get is Done Challenge" by Karen Brown (
Link) working with the left over pieces to this Amanda Murphy pattern. The first quilt was 50x72 which produced a lot of cut off pieces when you had to resize the squares to get the "flow" design. So with the left over blocks she has started her design for the using up the cut-offs. Everyone on the call liked the philosophy from Just get it done to work on a task for 30 minutes at a time to make progress towards getting it finished.
"Sure we can do anything for 30 minutes ..."
Ruth S. shared her Pineapple purchases from baby fabric, Christmas jellyroll, and table runner. The runner is for her sister to replace the one she made years back that has gotten a bit faded.
Ruth is making this fox block into a pillow for a Bluff friend who has a history with foxes.
Gayle finished binding the first Baby Quilt and has sail boat fabric ready to start on the 2nd one.
Also she made a little travel drawstring bag with some lovely colorful strips.
Gayle finished quilting the Dresden plate quilt and found royal blue fabric for the binding that matched the Irish chain squares.
Dee Dee is working with a Moda Layer cake and a pattern that is called Double Slice (
Video Link ) from Missouri Start.
The design wall is sporting 9" squares of browns, blues, and greens that is destined to be a Bunk-Bed donation. The Goal for the year is the use up fabric and make 1 donation quilt a month.
Nimble Thimble UnBegun Challenge (copied the description from Ravelry and changed dates)
Here’s how it works:
Dig thru your stash and find a project for which you bought Most everything - pattern, tools, fabric, notions - but then (for whatever reason) it got set aside in favor of something else. Work on it thru the winter & Spring months and complete by August 1st. Almost all of us have such a project (or more than one!)
This is a little different from the UFO Club. We’re taking SIX (6) MONTHS to complete something that might not even be started yet!
Starting February 1, 2022 get your Un-begun project identified and share your forgotten project(s) that you would like to finish. Let’s see how many hidden projects we can unearth and complete.
LOVE that you guys are doing your own version of the UnBegun Challenge!! Best of luck, quilters.
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