2010 June 11 — Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

June 11, 2010 · by JudyL

Remember last week when I went to the flea market to pick up the cherry stoner Vince had found? I found several treasures of my own!

Crocks are hard to find around here. I hear that the Amish snatch them up at estate sales and auctions. Not sure what they use them for (not sure I want to know since they don’t have indoor plumbing) but I want to try my hand at making sauerkraut, which we actually like. Also, I can use the crocks to make pickles. The real truth is . . when someone tells me something is hard to find, then I’m on a mission to find it, whether I need it or not. Anyone else do that? Anyway, they had these two 5 gallon crocks in good shape so I got them.

And, my mom has my grandma’s old strainer, which is actually called a chinois, and I’ve always loved that thing. Here’s a new one but I was so happy to find an old one at the flea market.

Stick a bowl under it and mash juice from fruit or strain the juice to make jelly . . doesn’t take much to make me happy.

But my best find of all . . you’re going to have to wait. Vince is going to clean it up. It has nothing to do with sewing. It’s been sitting in my garage for over a week and I can hardly stand it! This weekend I’m going to beg and bargain with Vince to get it cleaned up so I can show you!

Memorial Day Challenge Quilt #1

June 11, 2010 · by JudyL

The plan for getting these tops done (my plans are always subject to change though) is that I will show a picture of it quilted, acknowledge the maker of the top, and then I will show them once they’re bound and ready to go but I will not again acknowledge the maker because in my state of total disorganization, I cannot keep up with who made what. Does that sound ok to you who made and sent in tops?

For those who made tops and are quilting them yourself, if you want to email me a picture of your completed top, along with your blog if you want me to link to your blog, I’ll be glad to post the pictures here. It isn’t necessary but if you want to do it, I’m happy to do it too.

This top was sent in by Becky H. from North Carolina and it was the first one I received so it was the first one I quilted. Almost all of her fabrics have stars so I did an overall star meander for quilting. I like doing the stars and they’re fairly quick so I’ll probably do a lot of those. Thanks so much Becky! It quilted up perfectly!