10-26-23: CCLQ at Gayle’s

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

Maggie provided helpful handouts for the upcoming Round Robin.  Next week the bag exchange will begin. A big THANK YOU to Maggie for organizing this Round Robin and providing all the helpful tips and encouragement!

Maggie made this lovely bag with fabric from her selection of  Round Robin fabrics. Each quilter is to create a bag or use a bag you already own to hold the fabric, pattern, and instructions for the quilt blocks.  Folks can also include a journal so quilters can write a note about their fabric selections and creative inspirations. 

Maggie provided several helpful suggestions for ways to store the blocks to prevent excessive wrinkles. This is a craft box available from Joann’s Fabric or Walmart. 

Maggie made this storage booklet from cardboard and fabric. This is another method of keeping the blocks neatly.  

Maggie also shared this adorable Christmas table runner. 

Close up of the fabric. 

Deborah shared her table topper for the craft fair. 

Deborah also shared this Halloween wall hanging that she made years ago. 

DeeDee shared exciting tales of her trip to Egypt.  She found a quilt shop! The shop had quilts and other handmade crafts made from recycled cotton products. She purchased two lovely bird pillow covers. Below is some information about the the quilt shop. 

Zoom in to read the text. :)

Ruth B shared her Christmas table topper for the crafts fair. 

Linda reported that she helped with hemming two pairs of dress pants.  

Lynda shared the new Tilda Book with many beautiful patterns. She reported that she took her Featherweight machine to Capital Sew and Quilt in Raleigh. 

Carol shared three charming donation quilts.  This is quilt #1.  

Back view

A fun new pattern for Quilt #2. 

A very sweet Quilt #3. 

Carol reminded folks that the Christmas party will be at her house on Saturday, Dec. 16th. 

Candy finished this lovely top for her next quilt. 

Candy shared the backing fabric for this quilt which she purchased at Pineapple Fabrics.  Unfortunately after washing many times with color catchers, this fabric continued to bleed. She called Pineapple Fabrics and they suggested using Synthropol with the wash, but that didn’t seem to help. 

Gayle completed this beautiful quilt with scalloped borders. Gayle plans to make bias binding for this quilt. 

Close up of Gayle’s amazing free motion quilting on the long arm machine! 

Back view

Gayle also has this wonderful orange peel block on her design wall.  The orange peels are bordered in rick rack.  Gayle calls this quilt, “X’s and O’s.”

Until next time, sew happy, sew often.