2010 April 01 — Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

April 1, 2010 · by JudyL

Any time I have an article in a magazine, I’m torn about whether I should mention it here. It’s kinda like tooting my own horn and I sometimes feel bad about doing that but . . you’ll notice it isn’t stopping me!

In the current issue of American Quilter, I have a pattern. I’m not going to tell you about it . . other than to say it has a neat pieced border!

Like the quilt I posted earlier today, I started the quilt and when I showed the EQ drawing of the quilt to Vicky, immediately she remembered the perfect strawberry fabric in her stash and she wanted to make the quilt. I gave her little more than a “cheat sheet” and she made the quilt, and sent it to me to quilt. I quilted it and sent it back to Vicky. Then I talked her into entering it in the Nashville AQS Expo maybe in 2005 or 2006 . . can’t remember. So, she sent it back to me. After the show, I think it was sent straight back to Vicky. Then when we decided to submit it to American Quilter, Vicky had to send it back to me again so I could get it to Paducah to be photographed. This quilt was a Christmas gift for Vicky’s niece and she finally got it, but about 3 years late!

Thanks Vicky for allowing me to use your quilt. And you know what? The top I started way back before I ever showed this design to Vicky . . the blocks aren’t even finished! One day I will finish it . . some day!

Pinwheel Garden Quilted

April 1, 2010 · by JudyL

You might think that since I have a longarm, my own tops would all be quilted. Not so! This quilt, Pinwheel Garden, was made for my first book, Nine Patch Extravaganza. My friend, Vicky, also made a quilt from this pattern, and her quilt was used in the book so my top never got quilted. How long has this top been waiting to be quilted? Maybe 4 years! Worse, I loaded this quilt on the longarm at the end of January and have just now finished it. Does this blow everything you thought would happen if you had your own longarm? I’m going to do better.

Here’s Pinwheel Garden, quilted with the Baptist Fans template by Circle Lord. I used Warm & Natural batting, which is heavier than I prefer, but it was the first one I came to in the batting closet so . . it got used. That’s how things go around here these days.

Back when I made this top, I wasn’t making my binding when I finished the top and I have the same red outer border fabric still in my stash so I can use that for the binding. How lucky is that? I hope to get the binding made and done and finished by machine today. But . . Vince is off work so there maybe no sewing time.