Saturday, April 1, 2023

3/23/23: CCLQ at Ruth S

 Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  Today the group met at Ruth S’s home. Joy provided the delicious snacks for today’s meeting. So glad Joy could join us today! Maggie and Deborah talked about the DOQ program about English paper piecing and foundation paper piecing with Tina Craig. Check out Tina’s website for free patterns here .

Great group photo by Joy!  

Ruth B brought scraps for Joy. 


Maggie sported some fun new sewing socks! 

Deborah shared some happy fabric for a new quilt project. 

Border fabric for the ocean themed panel. 

DeeDee made this cute fishing fabric mug rug for a helpful neighbor. 

Close up

Back view

Maggie made this beautiful star quilt with batiks.

Maggie shared this awesome Spring Dance quilt which she plans to give to her niece for graduation. 

Close up 

The Spring Dance pattern in from this book. 

Ruth reported that she found her Viking sewing machine feet!  She worked on binding today and brought scraps for Joy. 

Lynda continues to work on the Cinnamon Stick quilt . Britt will soon start the quilting on one of Lynda’s quilts.

Joy shared a cool pin cushion and the book with pin cushion patterns. 

Joy also brought her house quilt which was part of a challenge called Facing Fears.  Joy reported that 19 new homes will be built in her neighborhood. She calls this quilt “Welcome to the Neighborhood.”

Cool table runner by Joy.

Close up of awesome quilting!

Joy’s cute pin cushion.

Pin cushion book

Candy recently went to Maggie’s to use her cutting board for cutting long strips for her next project..
Candy found a new house and will move in early April. 

Linda sported a new shirt with colorful flowers that match Deborah’s new panel and Ruth’s quilt below!

Ruth shared this gorgeous floral appliqué quilt.  McKenna Ryan pattern. 

Close up of Ruth’s quilt. 

Close up

Gayle happily received some small scraps from Ruth S.   Gayle reported she ordered some 2.5 inch Tula Pink fabrics. 

Until next time, happy quilting! 


Tuesday, March 28, 2023

3/16/23: CCLQ at Carol’s

 Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  This week quilters met at Carol’s home. 


DeeDee shared some beautiful fabrics that she purchased at the Elon Quilt Show. 

Pretty llama fabric with companion fabrics. 

Beautiful floral with birds.

A lovely panel.

Close up of one of the panels!

DeeDee finished this cool motorcycle donation quilt.

Close up

Ruth S made this sweet apron for her daughter in law. 

Close up of the fabric

Ruth found this adorable doll quilt top in her UFO pile and added a border to finish it. 

Ruth found some Bosal and fabric to make some eye glass cases. 

Maggie completed this lovely quilt for the breast cancer donation .

Maggie completed this nice Indiana Star Quilt. 

Maggie gave this cute kitty fabric to DeeDee! 

Gayle gave Ruth a gift of  Tilda fabrics from the Hampton Quilt Fest from Gayle, Deborah and Ruth S. 

Close up of Tilda fabric

Carol and Big Boy ( Carol’s new pup) shared this lovely and colorful scrap quilt for donation.
Fun fabric for the back of the scrap quilt. 

Carol shared her version of the Sesame Street quilt challenge. 

Carol showed another wonderful scrap quilt in the works. 

Lynda reported that she’s working on the Cinnamon Stick quilt.  Deborah shared news about recent travels. 

Until next time, happy quilting!




Tuesday, March 14, 2023

3/9/2023 CCLQ @ Lynda's

 Welcome to the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters weekly meeting.

Lynda's upstairs railing was sporting some of her quilts both Kaffe and Kitty.


Carol is finishing the binding on this "weave" patterned donation.


Ruth S. has a neighbor who will just love this baby quilt.



Deedee continues to clean out the shelves sewing up this rail fence from batiks.



Maggie has a black and white baby with colorful center blocks and cat faces on the back.  Also a Yellow charm pack baby donation along with the bunk bed sized Ice cream cone 3 yard pattern.






Ruth has her challenge quilted and ready for trimming and binding.  It was suggested to bring the groups challenge quilts to the next Saturday meeting on the 18th ... that is if they haven't been donated yet.



Candy found some fabrics at the Pineapple sale  to make the Modern Lace quilt.


Lynda has a number of blocks done for the Cinnamon Sticks pattern and the Houses quilt was a joint effort in the quilting between Lynda and Britt.    It's going to be her cuddle quilt.  And she showed us the background Tilda fabric she got at the Hampton show.





Happy Birthday to Deedee.

4 of the quilters went to the Art Feeds the Soul show use the following link to see some of the wonderful quilts.

Elon Quilt Show Photos

A vendor at the show Debi Radcliffe of Sew Beautifully Creative is from Graham and has fabric Online, Shows, and by appointment (click here facebook site)