12/4/25: CCLQ at Ruth's

 Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  This week the quilters met at Ruth S's home.  Ruth welcomed us with delicious homemade coffee cake and snacks as well as beautiful Christmas decorations. 

Beautiful vintage Christmas display in the kitchen window

Ruth’s Christmas tree quilt

Ruth’s daughter, Carolyn joined the group briefly this morning and shared this lovely quilted bag made by her mother-in-law. 

DeeDee dazzled us with a lovely quilt made with antique quilt blocks from a friend. 

DeeDee added three of the amazing antique blocks on the back as they were too large for the front. 

DeeDee made a label with with historical data about the quilter who made the blocks. 

Candy finished the herringbone quilt and will donate it. 

Candy finished this stunning quilt for her son-in-law. 

Beautiful quilting by Britt. 

Back view

Joy made his adorable Anne of Green Gables quilt as part of a challenge: “favorite book or movie.”  

Joy finished this beautiful “Sweet Kisses” quilt top.  Britt made the blocks and Joy assembled them. 

Cheryl will make a cape for her grandson out of this blue fabric. 

Cheryl finished this cute Christmas tree quilt top. 

Close up of some fabric Cheryl found at at quilt shop in Ohio.

Cheryl finished this lovely mountain landscape quilt for the challenge. 

Cheryl found this cute Christmas stocking fabric in Ohio.

Britt has been quilting and quilting and quilting! She’s also working on the challenge piece. 

Deborah finished the background for her challenge piece. 

Deborah’s granddaughter made a sweet book about quilting during the visit over Thanksgiving.

Carol finished her lovely floral quilt for the challenge. 

Awesome quilting! 

Carol finished this sweet donation quilt.

Carol found this lovely fabric at Spoonflower and also found some great complementary fabrics at Bull Town fabrics.

Ruth finished this fun snowman quilt.

Ruth is making a wedding quilt for some friends and plans to use this pattern. 

Nimble Thimbles - 2025 Green Batik Challenge Reveal - A Quilt Bee Family Affair

Welcome to the 2025 Nimble Thimbles Green Batik Challenge Reveal!!  Thank you to Maggie for coordinating the Challenge and donating the challenge fabric!  This year, for the first time ever, the whole fan-damly was invited to participate.  Members from all three branches of the family tree participated. Thanks also to Sue for hosting the reveal party at the Corbinton Clubhouse!

This is a photo of the fabric...

It was taken indoors during the late afternoon so the color appears much more yellow than in real life.  I'll try to get a better photo, but that will have to wait for now:

The following 15 members were in attendance:

There were 3 participants were unable to attend, but sent photos of their entries...

Here is the parade of entries...

Sue tried to get a shot of all the quilts together, but had to settle for segments of the room in an attempt to capture them all:

Thank you, again, Maggie!  Participating members were pleased with the result of the challenge.  Some members really stepped outside their comfort zone and one member created her VERY FIRST challenge quilt and even did the quilting herself.  Way to go, everyone!  All of the entries were SEW fabulous!!

Until next time...

Meet the CHALLENGE!!!