Thursday, January 26, 2017

1/21/17 - NT Sew Day @ SECU Family House

Welcome to the January 2017 meeting of the Nimble Thimbles Quilt Bee!!  Candy arranged for us to have a Sew Day at the SECU Family House.  Helena and Ruth S. were kind enough to offer to host the event.  Thanks to all three of you and everyone who brought treats to share!!

There were 12 members in attendance.  Joy began bugging everyone for photos as soon as she arrived.

She wanted to have time to sew, too!!


Dee Dee, Carol, and Gayle must have gotten the color memo:



Gayle brought a quilt that she quilted for Carol:



HERE is a close-up of the quilting:



Dee Dee brought a UFO to work on:



Ruth worked on a Scrap Quilt with remains from the Bluff Quilt:



Linda started a new project:


Helena worked on a Table Runner:



Candy concentrated on producing small wallets for Dana's upcoming Cameron Village Craft Show:



PLEASE NOTE:  We are ALL invited to join in!!  See Candy for further details on the April event.

Carol stitched down the binding of a Baby Gift:



THIS is the pattern that Linda worked on:



Margaret also cut into a NEW project:



HERE is her pattern:



Gayle found some "quilter's eye candy" online...



... And pieced the background before she arrived:



THIS is the project that Dee Dee has gone back to:




The photo below shows the pattern that Helena will be using with the pieces made in Bonnie Hunter's En Provence QAL.  You will also see Helena's Leader/Ender Project made from scraps leftover from making her Day Break Quilt by Jaybird Quilts:



HERE is the pattern that she is using for her Table Runner:



Ruth S. completed all of her scrappy blocks:



Britt got busy cutting more pieces for her En Provence Mystery:



The next step for Gayle was cutting out flowers:



A quick shot of "The Three Musketeers":



WAIT!!  Is this shot better???



As soon as the last person arrived, we began Show and Tell...

Joy completed the top of her Rainbow Strings Quilt:



She pieced a back for it, but it decided that it wants to be a FRONT:



Joy also brought along her quilted Think Spring Mystery quilt:



If you double-click on this photo, you may get a detailed view:



Britt shared her completed Jamestown Landing quilt top:



Here's another try at getting the WHOLE thing in the photo:



A little closer look:



And a close-up of the piecing:



Margaret showed off a new Baby Quilt that she quilted herself:



Britt had another SHOW... her completed Allietare Mystery Quilt:



A closer look:



Along with a close-up of the border quilting:



Really nice texture, Britt:



When Show and Tell was done, we had a few announcements...

Candy mentioned there were donation envelopes on the tables for those inclined to contribute to Family House for allowing us to use this beautiful space for our Sew Day:


Britt shared information about the Nimble Thimbles Shop Hop that she is planning for sometime in April:



The last order of business was Jean discussing her findings regarding our trip to Quilt Con in Savannah, GA in February:


We were SEW busy that we had a bit of a late lunch.  Boy was it worth the wait!!  Everything was DE-lish!!!

After lunch, we made a final push on our projects...

THIS is the pattern that Candy is using:



Helena is almost finished with the layout for her Table Runner:



Britt arranged the first of her blocks for En Provence:


Oops!!  Let's try that with changing those triangle pieces around:



Linda made use of the "Design Bed" to lay her pieces out:



Jean chose the puppy pattern for Willie's Kerchief Quilt:




She came with fabric pressed and worked on the cutting:



Joy made progress on the binding of Think Spring:



Candy forgot to share her Law Enforcement Quilt:



Look at the quilting she did:



Margaret experimented with a new tool:



With blocks done, Ruth S. made a stitch guide to use on her Faux Crazy Quilt blocks:



MORE cutting for Jean:



Another look at Ruth S's stitch sample:



Gayle's floral pillow is coming together:



The back of Candy Police Quilt REALLY shows the quilting:



What's this??  Britt has drawn out a collection of pieced quilt backs found on the internet:


Until next time...
Enjoy a Sew Day!!!

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

1/19/17 CCLQ at Candy's

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  Nine quilters met at Candy's house this week. Candy treated us to homemade zucchini muffins, coffee and tea.

DeeDee started off show and tell with this 1998 block of the month quilt that Ruth S brought to the group. Each quilter completed a block and DeeDee put it together. Nice job DeeDee! 
Joanna will quilt this one and Ruth S will do the binding. It will be a donation quilt for someone very lucky. 
Some of the scraps leftover from the block of the month quilt. 

Ella made this quilt for her grandson's friend and it's finished!   
Close up of the wonderful quilting by Ella! 
Ella is making a series of placemats. 

Ella showed on of Barry's latest creations.  Look at those perfect points!  Well done Barry!

Joanna went to the quilt expo in Sanford and found fabric for a Josephine's Knot quilt.  Deborah shared the pattern. Can't wait to see this one!
This was on Candy's mantel piece.  
Joanna's also making this gorgeous table runner for her son and daughter-in-law. 

This is Cheryl's police support quilt. Nice work, Cheryl! 
Candy's police support quilt...thank you Jackie Gerring for inspiring the quilting on this one.  Looks great Candy! 
Close up of the quilting on Candy's quilt.  
These wavy lines represent the flag blowing in the wind. 

The back of Candy's quilt. 

Here's Jean's wonderful police support quilt. 

Close up of quilting on Jean's quilt...look at those stars!  Awesome! 
DeeDee and Ella teamed up to make a police support quilt.

Summary about police support quilts....Candy will make a label for the back of the quilt with a group photo and the words written by Joanna. Each member will contact their respective police departments and arrange a time to deliver the quilt.  
 
Deborah completed a quilt top with fabric from a bag exchange challenge. 

Close up of the fabrics in Deborah's quilt. 

Ruth S is making this beautiful quilt block using appliqué and piecing.  
Ruth S is also working on a crazy quilt block. 


Ruth B is working on her police support quilt.  

Ruth also attended the Quilt Expo and found this beautiful ceramic buttons. She updated one of her sweaters using the new buttons. 
View of sweater with new buttons.
We celebrated a birthday for Ruth B and .... 
and Ruth S at La Cocina in Mebane.  
Birthday flan!

Until next week....quilting with friends keeps you young!!!!

 

Sunday, January 22, 2017

CCLQ: 1/12/17

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  The blogger and substitute photographer were not able to attend this week's meeting, so apologies for a very short post.  Four quilters met at the home of Ruth S.  I'm sure this was a fun meeting with lots of beautiful quilt projects for "show" and lots of good stories for "tell."

I was able to get one photo from last week.

Here's a close up of Jean's police support quilt.  What an awesome quilting design!


Until next week...  "When life gives you scraps.....make a quilt!!





Monday, January 9, 2017

1/5/17: CCLQ at Joanna's



Happy New Year from the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters! Seven quilters met at Joanna's house for our first meeting of 2017.

Here's Joanna's 2017 Calendar for January.
Here's a cell phone photo of Ella's show and tell today.  She made these "Queen Bumblers" for her grandson's friends. 

Joanna showed this wonderful modern quilt top.  This quilt lends itself to some massive quilting.  
Joanna has been busy...here's another quilt top waiting it's turn on the longarm machine.  
Linda was busy trimming blocks. Linda shared that she made a Christmas tree skirt for her niece and is working on a Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt. 
Candy was happily knitting a scarf.  
Candy shared this police support quilt for Mebane. The patch was sewn on using straight stitch.  
Ruth S, Joanna, and Deborah have completed tops for the police support quilt project. Candy shared a tip for sewing on the label...she used a small zig-zag stitch with monofilament thread and fused the label as well. 


Joanna composed the label for the back of the quilt: "This is offered as a symbol of our support, our faith in you and our awareness of the danger you live with.  May your courage inspire us to bridge gaps and improve relations. " This will go along with a group photo of the CCL quilters.  Candy volunteered to make this label for the back of the quilt.
Ruth S shared some pillow cases made from fabric she used for The Bluff quilt.  
Ruth S finished a lovely baby quilt.  
Here's a detail of the rick-rack trim.  How sweet! 
The back of this baby quilt is warm flannel.  
Ruth B worked on embellishing her landscape quilt.  
Wow...Joanna completed another quilt top!   
This awesome quilt top is on Joanna's bed .
Here's what's on Joanna's design wall...she's looking at border combinations. 

Isn't this 3-D Christmas tree cool?  This is another one of Joanna's projects! 

Six quilters had lunch at Bennett Point Grill.  Until next week, here's a quote for the new year...

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host again difficulties."  Helen Keller


Sunday, January 1, 2017

Quilty New Year!!

To all of my quilting friends...

I wish you a very Happy New Year!!

From your NT Editor

I'm sure that your CCLQ Editor wishes you a good one, too.

Thanks for taking over, Deborah!!