10/6/22: CCLQ at Cheryl’s

 Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  This week the group met at Cheryl’s house.

Maggie went on a “Shop Hop” on the way to the beach! She found lots of cool fabric and patterns. 

Close up of Maggie’s fabric from the shop hop.

Close up of cute critter fabric.

Another view of the critter fabric.

More fabric from Maggie. 

Maggie found this cute pattern for making a  cell phone or small iPad stand. 

Maggie shared this awesome “Rain Cloud” quilt top. 

Ella finished this lovely Hour Glass quilt top for a donation quilt.

Ella has a friend who wants her to make this beautiful bicycle quilt!  Gayle will help Ella draft a pattern for this. 

Wow…DeeDee has been busy!  She made this lovely quilt from the bird fabric she showed last week! 

DeeDee also shared a video every quilter would love….Harbor’s family video taped his reaction to the opening of the Halloween quilt.  He truly loved getting this gift! “This is awesome! He wrapped it around himself…and had several more expressions of joy! 

Gayle completed this happy turtle applique baby quilt.

Close up of Gayle’s adorable appliquéd turtles. 

Gayle brought a bag a basil from her garden to share with the group. 

 

Cheryl finished quilting this cute donation quilt. 

Close up of the quilting and scallop stitched binding on Cheryl’s quilt. 

More shop hop fabric finds by Maggie. 


Deborah shared a Christmas table runner pattern called Border Up Runner.  She will email to pattern to the group.  Deborah is also working on two memorial T-shirts quilts. Still cutting and fusing. 

Ruth B reported that she is almost finished sewing the sleeve on her DOQ show quilt. She is also working on binding a baby quilt. 

Next week’s meeting will be at the Hillsborough Senior Center and the following week will be at Ruth B’s. 

Happy quilting!

9/29/22: CCLQ at Gayle’s

 Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  This week the meeting was held at Gayle’s house.

DeeDee shared a photo of a quilt she plans to make.

Here’s a close up of the lovely bird fabric DeeDee will use. 




DeeDee brought the cute Halloween quilt to show to folks who weren’t at last week’s meeting. 



Close up of the quilting on the Halloween quilt. 

Deborah showed an antique appliquéd quilt top possibly from Virginia.  Deborah’s sister has a friend who has a cabin in the VA mountains. The friend has been collecting antique quilts for a while and is downsizing, so gave this top to Deborah.



Ruth shared her beautiful hexagon quilt.

Close up the scallop stitch used for the binding on Ruth’s quilt.   

Ella had a chicken story to share. Ella’s daughter has backyard chickens.  Yesterday she found one of the chickens had a stick in it’s side. Her daughter and grandson were able to remove the stick.  This morning the chicken was still alive. 

Cheryl showed a sweet rainbow pillow  she made for her new grandson. 

Candy brought more fabric to give away. 

When cleaning up her sewing stash, Candy found this lovely appliqué block. The group remembered that this was made at Gayle’s appliqué class featuring Sharon Schamber’s  method.   

Candy also found this giant bag. 

Ruth brought the Pineapple block pattern to give away.

Linda was the luck recipient of the Pineapple block.  Linda  plans to go to the beach and will take her sewing machine. 

Gayle had a fantastic time with her family at the beach.  She found some awesome sea biscuits. 

       

                                                      Close up of the sea biscuit shells.

Until next time, happy quilting!  

 

9-22–2022: CCLQ at Deborah’s

 Welcome to the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters weekly meeting!

                                 Ruth shared a pattern and template for a pineapple block.

This pattern has a plastic paper piecing template that can be used to trace a pattern on paper.

DeeDee finished another cute donation quilt. This is the back of the Sesame Street donation quilt.

                    Here’s the front of the adorable Sesame Street donation quilt that DeeDee made.

           DeeDee finished the surprise Halloween quilt for Harbor.  Everyone loved the color combination!

DeeDee used Maggie’s quilting idea from last week and quilted using an off center diagonal quilting technique.

Candy didn’t have a show but had a big tell that she’s found a new place to live! 

Lynda reported that she’s busy working on a second twin size quilting using Tula Pink’s Tiny Beast fabric and will have it done before the grandkids arrive! 

Deborah just returned from Asheville and had a virtual show from the River Arts District.  She visited the Marquee which is a “curated warehouse of antiques, vintage decor, art, jewelry and craft. “ 

Vintage sewing machine…


Wonderful art quilt by Kim Juran using a variety of techniques

                                                                   Close up of art quilt

Bear sighting!  Deborah’s friends had a visit from mama bear and three cubs on Sunday around supper time. This view is from the living room window.

The River Walk in Asheville had lovely views of the French Broad River. Could this be inspiration for a landscape art quilt?

DeeDee shared this lovely library fabric and asked for ideas for making a quilt with this. She was thinking of doing a window pane block.  

                                           Ruth brought a give away of some flannel fabric. 

                                                            Until next time, happy quilting!

9/15/2022 CCLQ @ Carols

Welcome to the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters weekly meeting!

Carol showed the very cute back of animals and zebra fabric to her crumb pieced front donation quilt.

She started on a disappearing hourglass project as per the Missouri Start directions.  

Link to Missouri Quilt Company

In Grammy mode Carol pieced a Dr Seuss baby quilt and got the companion back fabric from Amazon.

Deborah has the BQ2 Kitty blocks all done and doesn't those cat food cans really make you smile.

Deborah also made a charm baby donation ..... notice these fabrics and check out Cheryl's

Deedee got in the Holloween spirt and picked up some fabric to make this cute top that destined to be a family gift that really has one specific family member as the recipient.

Cheryl still waiting on grandbaby arrival and is using up a stash of charms with frames for a donation with a wild backing fabric.  Had enough charms to make a second baby quilt.  Deborah and Cheryl had gotten these charm years ago and by chance both decided to use them now.  Cool.

Candy made new kindle cover.

And offered up a book for review.

Maggie is binding a donation that uses a Row-By-Row above a bunch of charms.

Question for the group should the microwave bowl holders have pointy or rounded corners ... Rounded.

Another Charm donation where the gray strips are 2.75 width.

Using some of the 3.5 squares that Candy offered up last week here's a cute little donation that incorporated some practice star blocks.   3.5 is the new square size of choice since quilting diagonal is a good 2" wide and supper fast to finish with our favorite serpentine stitch.

Sew On ... till next week!

"Pumpkin Kisses & Harvest Wishes"