8/8/24: CCLQ at Maggie’s

 Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  Five courageous quilters with raincoats, boots, and umbrellas ventured to Maggie’s house on Thursday during Tropical Storm Debby! 

Joy always takes the best group photos! 

Carol recently visited Pennsylvania and found some spectacular fabric panels. 

Carol plans to make Christmas quilts for family members using these lovely panels. 

Carol found some wonderful complementary fabrics as well. 

Carol plans to make a wedding quilt for her niece using the Carpenter Star pattern and these fabrics. 

Carol also finished this adorable child’s donation quilt. 

Close up of the cute teddy bears. 

Maggie has been busy making mug covers for sewing or drawing/writing tools. These will be sold at the upcoming DOQ Quilt Show boutique. 

Maggie created a lovely collection of wine caddies for the boutique. 

Remember when Linda H gave Maggie a kit for making a zipper bag with quilt themed license plates?  Maggie finished these two zipper bags and plans to make more. 

Instructions for the easy zipper bag. 

This kit had a sweet little car for a zipper pull. 

Maggie just received the kit for the door banner quilt for October! 

Deborah wore her special t-shirt for today. 

Joy made this lovely pillow cover using the Rainbow Scrap Challenge for last month. 

Joy also finished this awesome graduation T-shirt quilt for a friend’s son. 

Backing and wonderful quilting on the T-shirt quilt. 

Ella reported that she’s working on her sewing pace and making progress. 

Ruth S sent this photo a couple of weeks ago for our blog. The caption was, “If you don’t see a quilt, you can paint one. Ruth painted this floor cloth with a lovely quilt design. 

“Lake Bluff, our own pot of gold!” Ruth sent this photo on 8/8/24 while we were having the tropical storm!  Maggie replied, “send it our way please!” 

The group talked about an upcoming challenge quilt project.  Maggie suggested the theme, “sewing.”  This could be any aspect of sewing…sewing tools, people sewing, sewing related quilt patterns, e.g, spool block.  We will discuss this in a later meeting. Ideas and suggestions are welcome.  Suggested size was up to 20”x36”.  Tentative time frame…January 2025 and reveal in January 2026.  This would allow a group display in the next DOQ show.

Until next time, happy quilting!