6/9/22: CCLQ at Ruth B’s

 Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  This week the group met at Ruth B’s home. The group discussed the upcoming shop hop and the Pineapple Fabrics sale and agreed going to Pineapple on a Friday would be better than a Thursday. No decisions were made about the shop hop. 

Ella shared a wonderful new project using batik strips.

Gayle finished an adorable baby quilt.

Gayle used the batik fabric for backing from Candy’s fabric give away last week.

Here’s another sweet baby quilt Gayle finished .

Gayle was so excited to share her finished fabulous Hunter’s Star commission quilt!

Back view of Hunter’s Star Quilt. 

Close up a quilting by Singing Stitches.

Back view of Gayle’s baby quilt with quilting design.

Lynda reported that she was back in her sewing room working on the flannel quilt.  She’s also been working hard in the garden!

Linda H showed a photo of a BTS logo quilt that she’s working on. 


Linda found some a plastic grid that she’ll use to draft the pattern for this quilt. 


After two years, the Durham Public Schools hosted a Retirement Party for retirees!  Linda received this plaque and enjoyed seeing her colleagues again. 

Ruth B is working on a hexagon donation quilt. 


Ruth showed this lovely pottery mug that was made by her nephew’s wife. 

Here’s a photo of Cheryl’s wonderful Hunter’s Star quilt. She had finished making all the blocks for this king sized quilt for her friend! 

                                      Cheryl brought some of the Hunter’s Star blocks to show. 

Carol has finished this colorful quilt top for her grandson’s middle school graduation gift. The center blocks have  guitars as he loves playing the guitar. 

Candy reported that she’s making a child’s quilt for Ukraine. Candy sent a friend a quilted bag made by someone in the group.  The bag came in handy for holding her phone charger and other items. Sorry I didn’t get a photo of the bag…the group thinks that Joy made the bag. 

Deborah reported that she’s working on the binding for the Atmospheric Quilt.

Until next time, happy quilting!

6/2/2022 CCLQ @ Gayle's

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

We had a treat seeing all the creative quilts and paintings Gayle has on display in her home.

Candy offered up a bunch of fabric, books, and notions for the taking.  Needless to say she went away with an almost empty bag.  Then she showed two pieced donation tops that are ready for quilting.

Carol also had 2 donation tops ready and finished binding on a colorful tessallating log cabinish quilt.

As a surprise she told us of her new Bernina Embroidery machine and a sample of her getting use to it.

Gayle showed the completed table cloth/summer quilt that was made from her jelly print fabrics.  Then she showed a traditional pattern with fabrics that are not her typical palette.

Maggie showed 2 completed donation small quilts.  One even had an After Quilt on the back.

 

 

Deborah showed the Completed Doll with a full outfit ready for her Grand daughter.

Dee Dee showed a charm donation top and a much loved woven handbag that is going to be deconstructed and repurposed.

We had a brief facetime call with Ruth and she showed us what she is working on.

Have a great week ... until next time.

5/26/2022 CCLQ @ Cheryl's

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

We had a walk on the garden path to reach the deck for our meeting and the sights were wonderful.

 

 

Deborah is working on her Granddaughter’s doll head.  During the meeting she was able to complete crocheting the hair cap.   Who knew there were so many techniques for making dolls.  Included is a picture of the patterned dolls.

 

 

Maggie shared a completed donation quilt and the first of 80 batik blocks for a wedding quilt.

 

Dee Dee shared her put together Solar Flare top.

 

Carol used some of her mothers orphan blocks to make a small runner and proudly showed the completed gray and green baby quilt.   Oh how those critters make us smile.

Lynda has been busy in the garden filling up those new raised beds with the "GOOD" dirt and native pollinator plants.

Cheryl is working on a hunter star quilt that is proving a tad difficult but new fabric is on the way to keep it going.  And she still has a smile.

 

Ruth talked about cleaning up and possibly dispersing some thin ribbon from her stash.  

One possible use for the thin ribbon is for these holiday drawstring gift bags.

Maggie has a pdf document to show how to make them on google drive.  Click link: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VII2DDyWvlIJmbbWybnoYV6J0J7s7Qq4/view?usp=sharing

There's a tool from Dritz to help ...  (at joanns link is Here )

Until next week!