National Corduroy Day 111111

In the very early 1970's

I used a cardboard template traced from one of my grandmother's books

to cut these scrappy pieces from fabrics in my mother's stash

(she made clothing, not quilts).

Printed velveteen, cotton lawn, eyelet, dotted swiss, seersucker, 

stripes, plaids, wovens, polyester gabardine, florals, solids, and . . . 

CORDUROY!

The queen size yarn-tied, poly-filled comforter was used for many years,

first at our house and later at my mother's.

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Fast forward to 2007 . . . 

I gently unstitched my dresden plates from the tired muslin backing,

followed Janet Berlo's advice to "smash those plates"

(by cutting each circle into quarters)

and hand-appliqued the quarters onto blue splatter-paint background squares.

Designed and created by Julie Sefton
Quilted by Chris Ballard

In August 2008, Thirty Years Later

was juried into the Nashville AQS show!

Look closely at the second ring . . . 

do you see the corduroy?

My mother made me a jumper from that red/brown plaid corduroy . . .

I'm pretty sure she made a jumper for my sister from the red . . .

I still love the gray gingham corduroy . . .

. . . and I had a skirt made from the navy blue wales.

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And so, in honor of National Corduroy Day 111111,

here's a current photo of Thirty Years Later.

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To see lots more corduroy quilts, please visit Nifty's blog.

Quiltdivajulie