1-30-25: CCLQ at Passmore Center

Celebrating our Fabric Stash

 Welcome to the weekly meeting of the Cherry Creek Lane Quilters!  This week Linda arranged for the group to meet at the Passmore Center.  The unofficial theme this week seemed to be “celebrating our fabric stash” as many quilt projects were made from the existing store of fabric from our very own homes and folks brought fabric to share with others. 

Maggie shows off a lovely bag of fabric from Lynda. 

Lynda shared this beautiful donation quilt with a great combo of lime green and purple borders. 

Lynda also brought a couple of excellent fabrics to add a secondary border on the donation quilt. 

Candy brought four bags of fabric to give away! 

Lynda brought some jungle prints to share. 

Candy shared the collection of scrappy yellow blocks from our Sew Saturday. 

Carol has been busy making adorable Valentine quilted boxes for her her grand children.  Each one has a lovely embroidered heart on one side and the other side has “love” embroidered on it. 

Carol shared three gorgeous donation quilts! 

Carol’s colorful donation quilt was made from the long strips of scraps that she sewed together a few weeks ago.  She plans to add more columns.

DeeDee brought this cool cat to stuff.  She reported that she’s also working on an art quilt.  She mailed a quilt to a young friend and received a heartfelt thank you video of him opening the gift. 

Cheryl reported that she has started sewing the border of the tree quilt and has also sewn a border on the baby quilt. 

Gayle received some olive green fabric from Candy.  Gayle also reported that she’s working on a four square quilt, which is hiding somewhere in her sewing room. 

Linda showed her stunning Radiant quilt. Linda reported that she’s working on her block of the month quilt. 

Ruth shared this lovely donation quilt made with fabric from her stash. 

Back view

Ruth also finished the top of another lovely donation quilt also made with fabrics in her stash.  

Deborah completed one tedious row of the Storm at Sea quilt…made with 27 year old fabric in her stash. 

DeeDee mentioned the upcoming Carolina Fiber Fest in Raleigh March 14-15th. 

Until next time, happy quilting! 

1-25-25: Sew Saturday at Family House

Quilters started the new year with a wonderful Sew Saturday on January 25th at Family House.  A big THANK YOU to Candy for organizing this event. Luggage carriers were available to haul sewing machines, fabrics, irons, pot luck dishes and other needed items to our spacious second floor meeting room. 

Eleven quilters met at Family House for Sew Saturday. 

Ruth S shared this beautiful donation quilt made with fabric from her stash. 

Cheryl found a bundle of purple fabrics in her closet.  A plan for these fabrics is percolating. 

Cheryl completed most of this lovely fall migration quilt and will add borders from some of the fabrics below.
 

Candy had fun making scrappy squares. 



Candy finished this lovely bag for a friend. 

Britt was busy working on a blue, green and yellow quilt. 

Carol spent time sewing binding on a quilt. 

Here’s Carol’s beautiful scrappy donation quilt. 

Kisten was working on a quilt which features a lot of half square triangles. She has been taking an online class called “Triangle School” from Lo and Behold Stitchery. Find the link to the class here.  

Cheryl takes advantage of the ironing space. 

Gayle has been busy cutting lots of 2.5 inch squares and is now making a scrappy cover for her living room chair. 

Deborah found a Storm at Sea UFO (unfinished project) from 1998.  She focused today on piecing 3x6 inch diamond blocks. 

Linda shared this spectacular Radiant quilt!  She plans to give it to her hairdresser. Linda also worked on cutting fabric for a new quilt. 

Our meeting room also had a kitchen so we enjoyed a delicious lunch.  

Joy worked on her Rainbow scrap challenge which featured the color pink. 

Maggie brought pre cut fabric for everyone for our next Round Robin project. 

Maggie finished this adorable donation quilt with cool backing fabric.

Maggie also showed this wonderful donation quilt for Veterans.

Close up of the quilting. 

Deborah showed this quilted wall hanging which she made for a friend. 

Until next time, happy sewing!  

1/16/2025 CCLQ @ Deborah's

 Welcome!  This week Deborah hosted and we celebrated Gayle's Brithday (that day)  and Ruth S's coming up on Sunday!  After some delishous almond cake with chocolate ganache we did a little show-n-tell.

Cheryl sent us a picture of the current project on her design wall.

Lynda did a grand reveal of her 2024 Round Robin blocks Quilt all finished.  What a great backing making use of the extra fabrics.  She is currently working on another donation using kaffe 6" strip fabrics.

Maggie had two show's the first was a scarf she got as a gift from her sisterin law Cathy who is an excellent knitter.  For her donation quilt the group decided that of the 3 binding options; the lime green would work the best given the baking fabric.

Carol was a little stumped on how to finish off this red/white/blue "Key Hole" top and got inspiration from a Villa Rosa pattern that Deedee had and it sure turned out beautifully. She then embraced a technique to use scraps to make jelly rolls.  So using a thin foundation fabric scraps were stitched and flipped. Can't wait to see what she does with these strips.  The video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdkjafOEFCM

 

Candy is working on a tote bag for a gift it's giving her fits but she is still smiling.

Gayle the Bithday Girl is also smiling and dreaming about the two trips she is planning for 2025.

Ruth S. finished piecing a donation top using up some vintage stash.  She also did a baptism banner and is happy to be done.  Word to the wise everyone burlap is not easy to work with.

Linda has two projects being worked on but no progress this week because what she should work on is not inspiring and what she wants to work on would be a guilty pleasure. Hopefully the group advice will help her move along on both. 

Deedee has one of the smallest show (maybe only rivaled by Britt's milk duds journal).  It's for her mixed media group where they were given a tiny loom to weave this creation.

Deborah has been cleaning up her studio space and found a cut off art piece that she is now going to make into a table runner or wall hanging.  It will be a gift and the ombreh backing will certainly enchance it both as possible borders and backing.

Ella showed her pinwheel donation that is now quilted and ready for binding.

That's all for this week.