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CCQ kit-makers meet

By on January 28, 2013 in Meet our members, Volunteers

kit making committee CCQ kit makers meetCCQ’s kit-making volunteers meet periodically to put together quilt kits for our students’ first and second quilts. It’s a fun activity where we have the opportunity to get together with other quilters and explore our creative abilities with color and design.

Each kit includes a pattern, fabric and thread. First quilt patterns introduce basic concepts and include rectangular shapes. Second quilt patterns build skills by introducing half square triangles and other more advanced techniques.

We welcome donations of 100% quilting cotton (minimum 1-yard lengths), thread and quilting notions. We also welcome cash donations to help us purchase solid color and tone-on-tone “blender” fabrics.

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Meet our volunteers: Theresa Eggleston

By on December 2, 2012 in Meet our members

theresaeggleston Meet our volunteers: Theresa Eggleston

Theresa Eggleston’s membership in Coffee Creek Quilters goes back to 2002, the year Koko Sutton founded our program and recruited her as an instructor. Theresa remembers the early days when there was just one quilting class and six sewing machines at CCCF. At first instructors brought fabric from home and used their own favorite patterns. We’ve grown considerably since then; today we have four weekly classes, twenty sewing machines, a nice fabric stash, and a collection of tested classroom patterns. Theresa retired as an instructor this year, so we honored her at our December brunch/meeting. Theresa and Mary Ann McCammon, pictured at left, plan to write Coffee Creek Quilters’ history next year.

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Meet our volunteers: Karen Bell

By on May 14, 2012 in Meet our members

karen bell small Meet our volunteers: Karen Bell

Karen Bell joined CCQ in January of 2008 as an instructor in the Thursday afternoon class. A year before she retired she saw a brochure about the CCQ program and knew that is what she would do when she retired. After four years volunteering with CCQ she feels blessed to be part of this program and for the opportunity to work with a group of wonderful women and to share her love of quilting with our students.  She’s been a quilter for more than 20 years  and enjoys combining bright colors with traditional patterns. Karen currently serves as President of CCQ’s Board of Directors. She’s also our volunteer coordinator and, in that capacity, makes sure all the teaching slots in our four classes are filled. Karen is a nurse who retired, after 30 years, from Providence Health and Services as the Director of the Providence Hospice Programs. From hospice Karen learned the invaluable addition volunteers make to a program. She keeps busy in retirement. In addition to her CCQ commitments, Karen also volunteers with the Beaverton Library, cares for her grandnephew Xander and enjoys scrapbooking.

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