3/19/26: CCLQ at Carol’s

 Happy Spring Time!  This week the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters met at Carol’s.  Enjoy the wonderful display of quilts, enjoy the humor and learn a little about NC history in this post! 

DeeDee reported that she took out the next UFO project which was making an umbrella with fabric from a class at Calla Lily. She decided not to make it. She cut up the fabric in to 5 inch squares and gave it to Carol. 

Ruth has had some family visiting and her niece is now a quilter! Ruth gave her niece lots of fabrics. Ruth shared her latest completed UFO project. It will be a donation quilt. 

Beautiful backing fabric on Ruth’s quilt. 

Lynda plans to work on the Red Rock pattern. The pattern is from Bull Town Fabrics.

Lynda’s fabrics for the Red Rock quilt. 

Deborah has a bit over half of the Ocean Views quilt sewn together. 

Candy went to Cary Quilting and found this thread which is made by WonderfFil. 

Candy also found a new pattern called Safety Dance.  Candy encouraged everybody to make sure to read any new pattern before starting a project.  This one calls for a special ruler…and as luck would have it, Maggie has that ruler and will loan it to Candy.

Here’s the first four blocks. Candy was able to adapt by making a paper pattern to use as a guide for cutting the half-rectangles. 

Ella reported that she has been working on Barry’s last quilt.  

Britt has been busy quilting for others and making more wedding quilt blocks.

Maggie went to the Capital Quilt Show and bought some needles.  She then went to Cary Quilting and purchased a new pattern, Ventura, and a quilt kit. 

Maggie made some fun quilted fidget toys. 

Maggie’s latest pattern and fabric. 

Maggie’s pattern for fidget toys and the the fidgets she made. 

Maggie also shared this cool quilt as you go quilt by Jessica. Maggie will do a demo prior to an upcoming  DOQ meeting. Check with Maggie about the date for that. 

HELP! Cheryl shared some of the Double Wedding Ring blocks that a friend gave her. The blocks are a bit wonky in that they won’t lay flat.  Cheryl asked for help as to how to make it work. Gayle said, “Spray it, manipulate it, and quilt the hell out of it.”  Others suggested using a thicker batting, ie, polyester. Lots of good ideas were shared. 

Cheryl was happy to get the advice! 

Gayle made a lovely farm panel quilt for donation.  

Joy created this  pretty donation quilt with fabrics from Candy and Britt. Britt quilted this one. 

Joy shared this quilt challenge, “My Compliments.”

The next challenge was, “A Handful.”

Carol created a beautiful scrappy quilt.  Her comment, “It was just mindless sewing!”   Carol also went to the NC Fiber Festival in Raleigh and saw a wonderful tapestry ( sorry I didn’t get a photo from Carol’s phone) featuring a group of women from Edenton, NC who became know as the Edenton Tea Party because they boycotted British imports starting in 1774. This piece is being made for the 250th birthday of America.

Until next time, happy sewing!

3/26/26 CCLQ @ Ruth's

  Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  The meeting was held at Ruth's home and we had sweets with our chats and show-n-tell.

Maggie started by Showing Ella's Ella Quilt (yes that is correct).  The pattern is called Ella and Candy got for her to try out.  Candy stepped up to apply the binding ... I'd say that's Full Circle.

The group had a Saturday sewday at Family house and here is Maggie's Trail Tote Bag finished and a bowl cozy made using a new curve ruler that has a few diffent size curves 

Candy showed us her design wall that has her blocks for the "Safety Dance" quilt pattern by Sewistry NC which is a modern, block-based design inspired by airplane safety signs, featuring radiating "arms".  The ruler for half rectangles by Creative grids didn't cover the unique size that the pattern called for so back to the template she made to get the exact angle. 

Britt was busy quilting this lovely top by Ella that she made for a donation.  It was the perfect chance for Britt to use a new panto design that I for one will want on my quilts.

Deborah has the ocean view from space quilt top all together and it is amazing.  Each fabric is a photo of the earth oceans from space.

Deborah stepped up for this challenge art quilt called "The Pollening 1".  2 will be a microscopic view of pollen.  This fabric center was from a piece of jelly plate printed fabric.  So perfect for this pollen project where she then used some decorative machine stitching to highlight the plant structure and leaves.

Gayle has found her Chapel Hill treasure again and may now continue to apply the hand embroidery embelishment.  It's her bring along project that needs to stay out of the closet. 

Ruth has these UFO rail fence blocks all done and ready for donation.

Next up for Ruth is an eye spy that has more cutting then she remembers for the last one.  And requested some Christmas fabric scraps since she sent her entire stash of Holiday fabric up to the Bluff so she could work with it over the summer.

Carol whipped up this scrappy donation in no time at all.  The tiny scraps in the shashing and border was a bit of a challenge with the seam allowances but it does look great!

Thats it for this week good luck with the pollening that is happening around here.

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.