Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

When you’re trying to use a huge amount of stash, you’re making a huge number of quilt tops, which have to be quilted and then they have to be bound.  But, you’re a quilter.  You already know that!

So, when you go out of town for an extended period, you take lots of quilts, 8 to be exact, along with all 8 bindings and you have a binding party . . even if you’re the only one in attendance!

Looking at all those brown and dark blue and black bindings, with the exception of the pink one, you’d never know I make bright quilts, huh?  These colors look kinda boring.

But what you didn’t know is that when you get there, your mom wants you to add the binding to a few of her quilts . . one of them requiring bias binding for curved edges.  Maybe this binding party will require a bottle of wine! 

There’s no place like home!  My family, the dog, the chickens, my bed!  Today I’ll print more patterns, organize everything for my next trip and then I’ll spend time sewing . . a whole lot of time if I’m lucky.

The main goal for today is to get the binding sewn down on this quilt:

I’ve shown the back side of it before but here it is again:

This is going to my sister to an auction in south Louisiana.  The Mardi Gras colors will hopefully make it a hot item at the auction.

Gail finished a curved binding by machine using the technique I described.  Her’s looks perfect.  The whole quilt looks great but I’m so happy the binding tips helped her.  Check it out on Gail’s blog.