4/20/17: CCLQ @ Ruth S's

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters. This week six quilters met at the home of Ruth S.  

Ruth's kitchen greets you with a lovely "Market Day" quilt.  This quilt makes me want to go to the Farmer's Market!

Ruth treated us to yummy gluten free brownies with icing and scones!   

Ruth's dining room provides a perfect setting for two lovely appliqué wall quilts.   

The group gets started with show and tell.

What's this?  This is not a quilt!  It's ok though as our group branches out to all types of sewing, knitting, crocheting, art, and craft!  DeeDee is make a nightgown and this is the pattern for it. 

Here's the cute cotton knit fabric DeeDee will use for the nightgown. 

Deborah shows a quilt that she made a couple of years ago.  This is her entry for the NCQS quilt show in May. 

 Evelyn Sloppy designed the pattern for this quilt.  

Close up of Deborah's quilt. 

Abstract camera shot...

Joanna shared these sumptuous fabrics. 

Here's one of Joanna's blocks using the above fabrics. 

Joanna will use the fabrics to make this "Patchwork Fields" quilt. 

Britt is busy working on her appliqué quilt blocks. 

Cheryl is working on the binding of a quilt for a friend. 

Please turn your head to the left and view this wonderful small quilt made by Britt. It will be in the  Silent Auction at NCQS. 

Here's Britt's mystery quilt with the border added.  Nice work Britt!

Ruth showed the fabric she's using to make a baby quilt for her niece. 

Here's the pattern for Ruth's baby quilt. 

Here's the Bluff Quilt... a beautiful reminder of where Ruth will spend the summer.  

Only a little over one more week until the "Shop Hop!"  Britt and Joanna have graciously agreed to make T-Shirts for everyone.  Stay tuned for the Shop Hop blog to see our group in their T-Shirts. A big Thank You to Britt for organizing this Shop Hop!

The group enjoyed dining at Tazikis Cafe. 

Until next week.... in honor of the shop hop......

4/13/17: CCLQ @ Linda's

What are the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters up to this week? 

This week ten quilters met at Linda's house. Linda treated us to delicious gluten free blueberry muffins, coffee, and tea. This week we had a surprise guest...keep reading to find out who! 

Ruth S made this lovely baby quilt for her brother's stepson's baby.  

Close up of the quilting by Savannah...Ruth's new machine. 

Ruth S also shared a new guide book that she made for her new machine.  I think Jean recommended that she make this book.  Ruth reported that it is a handy thing to do! 

This adorable donation quilt for the Animal Rescue Auction was made by Ruth S.  

Joanna is almost finished with the Escher inspired  donation quilt for NCQS. 

Cheryl is binding the quilt that she made for a friend!  I looks great Cheryl!

 Cheryl used a variety of decorative stitches from her machine.

Candy worked on the QOV today and finished the binding!  Yay! 

The surprise guest......we were all thrilled that Ella joined us today! 

Ruth B finished the assembly of the Twirling in Reverse blocks!  Ruth plans to find some reproduction fabrics on our upcoming shop hop.  

Ruth B has added some lovely embroidery stitches to her landscape quilt. 

Linda made this wonderful quilt for her great niece.  

What a cool way to use those extra blocks!

Linda also made this colorful quilt. She will add a border to this. 

Here's the pattern Linda used for the above quilt. Linda also plans to use the asymmetrical border idea. 

Britt shared a photo of her completed NC Botanical Garden Wildflower Quilt.  She delivered the quilt and it's already hanging in the Education Building at the NC Botanical Gardens.  

Another close up of Joe-Pye Weed. 

Britt also showed her marvelous Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt top! 

Deborah showed a photo of her latest quilting project.  She made a quilted headboard using Kaufman linen-cotton blend.

Several quilters enjoyed lunch at Mebane Downtown Table.  

Until next week...."We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making."  Joseph Chilton Pearse.

4/6/17: CCLQ @ Britt's

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  This week eight quilters met at Britt's home.  Britt treated us to delicious muffins and blueberry corn bread. The yummy treats and a special sipping surprise from Joanna kept the quilters in the kitchen for a while....until they saw this....

This lovely garden gate quilt was made by Britt.

What was keeping those quilters in the kitchen?

Yes...ladies...it's special Blenheim Ginger Ale made with real ginger and oh so spicy.   Thank you Joanna for bringing this treat all the way from South of the Border, S.C. 

Britt has started a new appliqué project...Stars and Sprigs by Kim McLean.

Here's the spectacular Stars and Sprigs quilt pattern cover. 

Here's the inspiration photo for Britt's NC Botanical Garden Wildflower of the Year quilt. This year's flower is Joe-Pye Weed.

Here's the almost finished quilt. Well done Britt!  Wonderful design and quilting! The flowers look three dimensional.

TIP of the WEEK: 

Do you ever wonder what to do with wavy edges after you've densely quilted a project?

Britt shared this cool strategy to remedy those wavy edges...baste along the edge and pull that quilt into smooth submission!

Ta da!  Ruth B has twelve of her "Twirling in Reverse" blocks assembled.  Way to go Ruth!

Just look at Ruth's quilt against Britt's creamy wall color....dramatic and elegant.  

DeeDee was busy at work on her hour glass blocks which will be made into a dresser scarf to coordinate with the night stand mini quilt. 

Linda showed this Jacqueline deJonge pattern that she bought in Houston.

Linda shared that Wish Upon a Quilt will host  2 classes by Jacqueline deJonge in August 2017.  Here's the link to one of the classes. 

Linda shared this last week, however the blog photographer missed it!  Anyway, this is a delightful bag made by the parent of one of her students with fabric from the class quilt project. 

Candy shared this lovely table runner made for a wedding gift. 

Close up of the quilting....nice work Candy!

Joanna made this extraordinary Escher inspired wall hanging for the NCQS silent auction.  

Britt shared some quilting techniques she learned at a recent  Patsy Thompson class. 

More designs....very cool...

A mandala design from the workshop...

Ruth S worked on the binding for one of the baby quilts made with her new Bernina or "Savannah" as we affectionately call her. 

Here's a big view of the baby quilt.  By the way...Ruth loves her new machine!
Big news from Ruth S....plans are in the making for a return trip to   The Bluff in 2018!!!!!

Britt graciously gave us a tutorial on how to use the Patsy Thompson rulers. 

Take a look at Patsy website...she has many interesting tools to help make machine quilting easier!

Close up  of the ruler...

Seven quilters dined at Hillsborough BBQ. 

Until next week....keep on quilting!