Twenty Five was a
lucky number for Little Quilts. We had twenty five entries in the Just Judie
Contest from Marcus Fabrics honoring Judi Rothermel’s 25th
anniversary of designing fabrics. We won the contest with the most entries from
a quilt shop!
We want to share with you. Some of them are even finalists. We're so proud of all the entrants.
Barb made her Nine
Patch variation with the fabrics from Judi’s 25th anniversary
collection and her favorite backgrounds. It’s a nice throw size
quilt.
Barbara – Anniversary Quilt
Beth made a king
size 72” square and she quilted it herself on her long arm
machine.
We love Debbie’s
classic Snowball quilt – a nice throw size also.
Debbie: Saturday Afternoon
Another Debbie’s
quilt looks like crazy patch, and her fabrics look like it’s an antique quilt!
She plans to add some crazy patch stitching.
Deborah - Firsts
This is the first
time Doris even entered a contest. She had a good time and loves her wall
hanging.
Doris – Starring Judie’s Gems
Jane’s quilt is
great..fun to look at….it creates a secondary pattern of stars and square in a
square blocks.
Finalist: Jane – Starring Judie
Janice’s quilt has a great combination of English paper piecing,
foundation piecing and great machine quilting. She works at Little Quilts too!
And would you believe, she’ll be teaching ‘how to make a modern
quilt!”
Finalist: Janice – Lemonade
Jean went through
her stash and combined it with the 25th Anniversary collection to
make this cozy throw. It looks like an old quilt too!
Jean – Fly Away
Jeanette combined
the Civil War ladies printed fabric with a soldier block for this nice tribute
to ladies and their soldiers.
Jeannette – Soldiers at Arms and their Civil War Ladies
Marty did this
wonderful tribute to Judie with lots of fabrics and special meanings…northern
flowers, southern flowers and more. You’ll need to study this quilt
closely. Marty teaches at Little Quilts.
Finalist: Marty – Judie’s Neighborhood Folk
“Karen’s Friends”
is the name of the quilt one of our teachers started for the contest. Karen
Mowery lost her battle with colon cancer and our Reproduction Study Group, that
she belonged to, finished the quilt by making the Log Cabin Blocks. Karen had
made the blocks with the little girls and we finished it. It’s a special
quilt.
Karen – Karen and Friends
Libby made the
pinwheel blocks with the 25th Anniversary collection and combined
them with a creamy background for this classic throw size
quilt.
Libby – Pinwheel Play
Lynn’s daughter’s
friend borrowed her entry for a picnic when he proposed to his girlfriend. Lynn
made this pinwheel quilt with blocks on point for a throw or small twin size
quilt. What a nice memory for this quilt.
Lynn – Pinwheel Comfort
Linda works at
Little Quilts, and also teaches the Hunter Star class with Studio 180’s technique
rulers. Each white star has 8 different star points. She made 25 stars to honor
Judie Rothermel’s 25 years designing for Marcus.
Linda – Charmed Star Salute
Mary combined
Churn Dash blocks with quarter square triangle blocks to make this wall hanging.
It also looks like an antique quilt. Great colors!
Mary Jo used Churn
Dash blocks and a background fabric to make this throw.
Mary Jo – A Churn Full of Judies
Muriel made this Trip Around The World wall hanging using Eleanor Burns strip piecing
technique. Muriel works and teaches at Little Quilts, and taught this technique
to the Homestead Gathering Club at the store.
Muriel – What a Trip
Nancy made these
star blocks and quarter square alternate blocks and framed one side with strips
of the anniversary collection. A neat wall hanging….it also looks like an
antique quilt!
Nancy – Just Judie Shining Stars
Peggy made
Pineapple Log Cabins to frame this center….can you see the selvages used to
frame the center blocks? (zoom in)
Finalist: Peggy – Old is New
Rise had never entered a contest before, and had fun making
the quilt. She’s one of our auto-ship customers. Rise used Judie’s border stripe
for sashing and also the border. Love the white stars don’t
you?
Sarah combined
English paper piecing with a nice border fabric for the stripes in her quilt.
It’s hard to see but it’s beautifully machine quilted.
Finalist: Sara – Jewel Flowers
Nicole names hers
“Scrappy Stars” for this nice looking wall hanging.
Nicole – Scrappy Stars
The next quilt
was made by Mary Ellen. She did 3”, 6” and 9” Lemoyne Stars using Deb Tucker’s
Lemoyne Star ruler, and combined lots of Judie’s background fabrics for this 50”
wall hanging. You may have read her saga in past blogs as she was making this
quilt while on a trip without her cutting mat, square rulers, and some of her
supplies.
Finalist: Mary Ellen – Stars for Judie
Wanda teaches at
Little Quilts, and made this quil with many dimensional
flowers. It’s a beautiful tribute to Judie. Wait until you see hers in person.
Finalist: Wanda – Judie’s Anniversary Bouquet
Allison’s quilt
did not get finished in time to enter the contest but we wanted to share it with
you. She’s using ½” hexagon papers and the center was 40”. Then Allison decided
to add the alphabet around the outside. Here’s her progress so far. It will be
beautiful and it’s all Judie’s fabrics!
Nancy loves log cabins and these were done crazy patch style as
in Gwen Marston’s quilts. Nancy loved the yellow fabric from the Party of Twelve
line, and used it to make her blocks float. The gals in the reproduction study
group named Nancy’s quilt. Don’t you just love her title?
Nancy - Aunt Gracie Builds a Log Cabin in Gee’s Bend
I hope you have enjoyed this quilt tribute to Judie Rothermel. She has been a "rock star" in quilt design to preserve the past into the future. She has designed fabrics in the 30's style that are not even the focus here, that have kept lovers of 30's feedsack style quilts stocked up with options for fabrics and quilt patterns for many years. Judie, Judie, Judie... we can't wait for your visit to Little Quilts. It is a great match-up.
Thank you, customers, for entering and REPRESENTING! It is a mutual blessing to be a source for great repro fabircs and to have customers with the creativity to use them so dramatically.
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