8/16/18: CCLQ at Joanna's

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  This week seven quilters met at Joanna's. We enjoyed wonderful show and tell this week! Wait until you see what Margaret brought to show.

Gayle worked on her whimsical UNC art quilt.  She's embroidering lots of tiny flowers on the  "hill."

Margaret recently traveled to NJ and had a sensational shop hop on the way there and back! She went to eight quilt shops, please forgive the blogger for not getting the names of all those shops.   Margaret found this irresistible autumn fabric. 

Surprisingly it's from Stonehenge Fabrics. 

Here's another stunning fabric. 

Wonderful reproduction fabrics 

Lovely Christmas fabric

Hmmm...this may be for a knitter in our quilt group???

Novelty fabric

Haunting cat fabric....maybe for a Halloween quilt???

This will be the backing fabric for Margaret's Blooming Nine Patch.

Shop hopping makes everyone happy...especially Margaret!

Ella had a wonderful tell about her grandson's visit. 

Candy showed this quilt made from fabric from a shop hop. 

Candy remembered that we were to bring a quilt from the past.  She brought this quilt from a class Gayle taught on appliqué. 

Candy shared this book about quilt borders.

This is a beautiful quilt Candy made using the blended border technique. 

This is another one of Candy's first quilts. It was from Ricky Timms' convergence pattern. 

Check out this wonderful quilting of little trees. 

Ruth reported that she continues to work on the churn dash quilt and has been traveling a lot this summer. 

Deborah showed the space quilt again and this time with an added embroidery.

Jean embroidered Deb's grandson's name using glow in the dark thread. The quilt also has glow in the dark stars.  

Joanna also remembered to bring a quilt from the past...this is her first quilt made in the 1970's for her son.  

Margaret and Ella admire Margaret's quilt which was quilted by Joy.  

Close up of wonderful quilting by Joy!

Joy happily received a bag of scraps from Deborah.

Someone loved exploring Joanna's quilt.  

Beautiful quilts on Joanna's long arm machine. 

Wonderful colorful quilt by Joanna!

The group enjoyed having lunch at Bennett Point Grill of course.

Until next week, happy quilting!

8/9/18: CCLQ at Ella's

Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters.  This week eight quilters met at Ella's home.  Enjoy readying about abundant ideas, quilts from the past, mystery blocks, and the December challenge.  Next week, please bring a quilt from your past... perhaps a quilt made by your grandmother or one you made when you were a novice quilter.

We were welcomed by lovely crepe myrtle blooms.

Hope you're inspired by these beauties. 

Ella had a lovely table scape for our morning snack.  Barry made some delicious zucchini blueberry muffins. Thank you Barry!

These mystery blocks were on Ella's design wall.  

The group was so busy chatting, we forgot to ask Ella about this, so they will remain a mystery until next time. 

Ella is getting ready to make a cross body bag for her sister. 

She made this sample bag to practice. 

Here are the colors she chose for her sister's bag.  Thanks to Jean for the inspiration and the lovely embroidered blocks.

Ella started this quilt in 2005 when she lived in Kansas.  The blocks were from a Shop Hop. A few months ago, the CCLQ quilters helped Ella arrange these blocks and now the quilt top is finished and ready for quilting!  Joanna will quilt this one and we can't wait to see what she chooses to do!!

Cheryl B joined us today and soon will be teaching again, so enjoyed spending time with the bee. 

Candy returned from a visit to Athens GA and found this cute bag in a candy store. 

Candy thought it would be easy to make this bag using  a small quilt block to use instead of the embroidery.

Ruth B finished the assembly of the Churn Dash quilt.

Ruth plans to add a couple of borders.  

Here's Ruth and her lovely quilt! Quilters love to color coordinate their outfits with their quilts. 

Jean gave Gayle this embroidery design to go with Gayle's peacock fabric. 

Jean plans to make a quilt like this one for her neighbor who loves cats. 

Jean found a another variation of the moonlight cat quilt and liked the pieced star blocks. We're looking forward to see which quilt Jean will make.

Deborah had a celestial experience and made this quilt for her grandson in three days!!!  The fabric is from 2008 and glows in the dark! Deborah made two game bags for her son-in-law with this space fabric several years ago. 

Cheryl received an embroidered block to made a cross body bag!  Candy received one too. 

Ella shared this quilt from her past. When Ella lived in Houston, her bee had an annual group project. The group made blocks for one person and then one member made the quilt.  This is the stunning quilt they made for Ella. 

This was the focus fabric. 

This is the back of the quilt with photos of the members of the bee. 

Christmas challenge....remember these lovely embroidered blocks Jean gave us last year?  The challenge is to make something by December with this block. Only four months until Christmas, so some of us need to get started soon! Jean will bring a few more of these blocks to the next meeting for people who did not get one. 

Ellas shared this fabric which will be on the back of her Kansas quilt...it has her name on it!😊

Quilters enjoyed lunch at the General Store Cafe in Saxapahaw.

Until next week, have fun whatever you're doing!