8/10/23: CCLQ at Maggie’s

 Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane quilters!  This week the quilters met at Maggie’s house.  Lots of wonderful show and tell and some more resources for fabric and quilting tools. Everyone was excited to see the star blocks for our group donation quilt! There were several questions about the upcoming Round Robin. Please refer to the PDF that Maggie sent via email on 7/6/23. 

What a lovely quilted table topper for the delicious snacks provided by Maggie. 

Everyone admired the colorful hexi- coasters made by Maggie. Check out the pattern for these scrappy coasters .

The Big Reveal! Here’s the splendid star blocks for our donation quilt. 

Several fabrics were auditioned for the sashing. DeeDee will work on making the sashing and assembling the quilt.

DeeDee is participating in a project to make blocks for Quilts of Valor. This is a string quilt block sewn on a muslin backing shown below. 

Carol is having fun making mug rugs and table runners for her family as gifts for Halloween.

This is a cute table runner.  Check out the close up of the happy embroidered spiders below. 

Cool Halloween fabric for the back. 

DeeDee also shared this book with lots of ideas for using panels in quilts.

Carol quilted one of the Halloween quilts for her grandkids. 

Cheryl did a nice job quilting the bird quilt. 

Cheryl’s neighbor gave her more fabric.  Cheryl may make a blue and white quilt.

Linda was happy to report that she got a set of shelves put up in her spare room and is making progress getting her sewing room organized.

Ruth had a fun week with her grandson. They went to the zoo and the Lego exhibit. 

Lynda finished the blocks for the Cashmere Garden quilt and began a search for backing fabric.  

Lynda found this luxurious fabric at Fig Leaf Quilting in Colorado. She reported this company had excellent customer service and sent photos of the fabrics that might work for backing. 

Maggie shared the blocks that she prepared for her son and daughter-in-law’s wedding reception. 

The blocks

Maggie selected these pens to use for writing on the blocks. 

Maggie tested several pens..Sharpie, Micron, and Gelly Roll pens. 

She washed and dried the sample fabric and the Gelly Roll pens worked the best. 

These Pentel Gel Roller pens can be used to mark fabric.  Yellow can be used to mark dark fabrics. 

Maggie framed this poster for the wedding quilt.

Another good tip from Maggie…she ironed freezer paper on the back of each block to make it easier to write upon. 

Candy reported that her shower is finished!  She also found the Mulberry Silks gift card that was given to her by her realtor. 

Deborah shared that the memory quilts were shipped on Wednesday morning. It was a relief to complete this project on time! 

There were several questions about the upcoming Round Robin. Maggie created a very thorough set of directions which would be good to print out. If you want to use specific patterns, please include in a notebook in your bag. One suggestion was to put patterns in a vinyl sleeve. If you want to leave the block design open…that’s OK…each quilter can choose and create a block for you.  If you have specific parameters, please write them down, e.g. size of unfinished and finished block, color limitations, or specific block patterns. If you miss a meeting when the bags are exchanged, it’s OK.  We will work it out. The blocks or perhaps finished quilt top or quilt will be revealed at the end! This will be exciting!!!!  

Until next time, “Creative people don’t have a mess. They have ideas lying around everywhere.” Unknown

7/28/23: CCLQ at Cheryl’s

 Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  This week the group met at Cheryl’s home. Lots of fun show and tell.  Scroll through to see the latest projects, quilts, and links with directions for making a holiday quilted wine bag, a local online fabric shop, and the cool shopping bag tote box. Please excuse this post being a bit late….the blogger has been sewing, quilting, and binding to finish three quilts by August 8th!

Cheryl treated the group to delicious quiches! 

Cheryl’s lovely butterfly quilt is displayed in the kitchen. 

A big THANK YOU to DeeDee for making the star block kits for our upcoming star block donation quilt. Blocks are due Aug. 10th and the meeting that day will be at Maggie’s. 

Each kit was complete with directions and center and background fabrics.

Maggie shared these wonderful quilted gift bags for wine or other items.  Click here to find directions. 

Maggie made two adorable donation baby quilts. 

Maggie traveled to Angier, NC to a quilt shop and found this pattern. 

Maggie also shared this neat foldable grocery tote from Amazon. 

Gayle brought two beautiful donation quilts.

Gayle’s lovely donation quilt.

Deborah showed the throw size memory quilt.  She found extra fabric for the sashing online at SewLux fabrics in Raleigh. Deborah will add a border and get this quilted by next week. 

Candy has been working on several home projects and is also sewing the quilted cover for her stand mixer. 

Ruth B went to Cary Quilting Company and found this fabric for possible sashing for her Kaffe Fassett quilt.

Ruth is happy to keep working on the Kaffe Fassett Quilt! 

Carol brought this stunning scrappy  donation quilt from the Tuesday group.  She’s working on the binding.  

Back view of scrappy donation quilt.

Carol is making Halloween placemats for her grandkids. 

Cheryl made this as a backing for the Charlie Harper quilt, but decided to make it into another quilt.  She plans to appliqué some birds on the solid blocks. 

This will be the backing for the quilts. 

Linda reported that she’s excited about some redecorating projects. She plans to paint one bedroom her favorite color….purple!

Until next time, don’t do housework….QUILT!

8/3/2023 CCLQ @ Carol's

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.

 This week the group met at Carol's and got a spooky sneak peak at the Halloween Decorations.   Not too early for the grand kiddos.

Gayle started us off with her completed challenge block.  Grateful for the motivation.  And shared lessons learned that all quilters should be using a scant quarter inch seam allowance when constructing the block.

Deborah had both her completed challenge block and the blue "test" block.

Cheryl shared some give away fabric she got from a friend.

Maggie showed 12 completed table toppers that will be used in the Wedding Lunch Reception for Matt and Sarah on the 19th.

Ella and Linda didn't have any shows but sure were happy to be there and share in the fun.

Linda told about the continuing transformation of the recently vacated rooms.

Lynda was very happy to be out and about now that she is sporting a walking cast.  She found the perfect project in her closet. The kit from Pineapple that has some wonderful prints and just enough complexity to keep her climbing the stairs to the studio.

Candy showed off the completed mixer cover that has side pockets for the smaller blades. 

Carol has finished a donation quilt that is similar to the Solar Flare pattern.  Instead of half squares this one uses 5" charms and stich-n-flip two opposite corners with background white.  She is also working on two different sizes of Halloween quilts for the grandkids.  The goal is for each to have their own.

Coffee table runner of a cat and the moon caught the photographers eye and needed a closer look.

Sew Until Next We Meet!