Nimble Thimbles

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

3/12/2026 CCLQ @ Lynda's

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters. This week Lynda was our host and we had some great show-n-tell. Here's the show but the no tell this time.

Thanks Lynda! That's it for this week.

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters. Quilters met at Maggie’s and what a fun meeting! Featured below are some amazing quilts!!!! Lots of laughs as you will understand as you read more on today’s blog. Today was also special in that several quilters left after the meeting to go to the “Art Feeds the Soul” Quilt Show in Elon, NC.

Candy’s UFO was made from green and black orphan blocks. Candy was not so happy with this project. We showed her the photo and everyone agreed this was a wonderful modern quilt! Candy plans to add a border and later in the meeting Maggie brought out a couple of green fabrics that might work. Stay tuned for next week to see the outcome!

Candy made some lovely potholders with Paula Nadelstern fabrics.

Maggie made some fun bowl cozies with bacon fabric and other fabrics.

This is Maggie’s UFO….WoW! She plans to save it for her nephew’s graduation quilt.

One of today’s show stoppers! Maggie created this gorgeous quilt and Britt quilted it.

Cheryl finished piecing the back of the blue quilt. She’s also been working in the garden. Cheryl shared the following advice with us and the room rolled with laughter.

Carol brought a piece of fabric with a vintage 1950’s design .

Carol sewed up this amazing wonky log cabin scrappy quilt.

Britt displays another show stopper!!!! This is a ten year old Big Dipper quilt. Britt has chosen a panto for quilting this one. Lynda said, “Can I have it?”

DeeDee bought this lovely linen/cotton panel and some Tilda fabrics at Quilt Con. DeeDee counseled that if you find a UFO and don’t want to finish it, you can give it away. Orphan blocks are just blocks not UFO’s.

Lynda shared her purchases from Quilt Con. Lynda also reported that she started a quilt with a layer cake and made 42 blocks. Britt helped Lynda put a design wall.

Deborah reported that she continues to make blocks with the Ocean View fabric.

Joy also shared a photo of the group at the Quilt Show.

Until next time, happy quilting!

Sunday, March 1, 2026

2/26/2026 CCLQ @ Deborah's

Welcome to the Cherry Creek Lane Quilter's Meeting of the Nimble Thimble Bee. Deborah was our host and some delishous cookies and nibbles.

Candy go us stared with her finished quilt using Paula Nadlestern kalidescope fabric. It has found it's home at her home where it will be waiting for a good snuggle underneath this great design and quilting.

Maggie shared a bit of a failure in making a rectangular cozy from a pattern that Deedee lent her borrow. When attempting to make a custom size it came out too shallow.

Carol has been busy but no shows this week. Talked about Log Jam video where the scraps are added with any size width. The blocks are squared up on a tilt when they reach the right size.

The youtube video is

"Come join Jackie for her Modern Log Jam class"

Gayle is getting ready for her next big cruise.

Deedee is finished and ready to hand over a bunch of children quilts for friends family. She's ready to get back to her art quilts but these sure did come out cute as anything.

Britt is fighting with squirrels who have moved into the attic. But she did find a spare "design wall" rolled up under the longarm ... the best part is when unrolling it she found a bunch of 4 patch stack-n-wack blocks that have not been seen for many a year.

Cheryl is back from a visit to the west coast and had some high times in the snow covered moutains with with her grandson.

Ruth got her quilt back from Britt's longarm and is now ready to get that binding on and get it delivered. Great job doing a modern wedding quilt for a modern couple.