The Tale of Two Appliqués
This batch of sashing includes one of the first appliqué blocks – nope, make that the first appliqué block I did on my Dear Jane quilt, way back in 2016. While […]
The Delicate Dance
This triangle block was stitched together in one afternoon during Spring retreat. The construction is fairly simple, once you work out which pieces to sew together first, so that you […]
The Workout
The construction of this block ended up being quite a mental workout, relying on all my pattern drafting skills and stitching tricks of the trade to make it happen. But […]
The Demise of Joann Fabrics
The blocks in this bit of sashing were all over the place size-wise … but they also all had points going right up to the edge. So, I focused on […]
The Morse Code
When I sat down to start on this triangle block, I saw I had written down a note for this block that said simply “interlocking circles fabric from Becca?”. I […]
The Disoriented Geese
This one went together quickly, which was great, after it took me until February 34th to finish my overly-ambitious February quilting goals. Perhaps a 47-piece block and sashing an entire […]
The Official Record
For the record, it was probably dumb to combine constructing a 47-piece block with assembling an entire border row as my monthly quilting goal for the shortest month of the year. […]
The Controlled Chaos
While the fabric print used for this block is small, it is semi-directional. I had not really thought through how A) there were pieces of the print fabric adjacent to […]
The Bit-By-Bit Approach
In January, I sashed together a new section of the middle … the center-right one. I had four more blocks to sash, and they could be attached to four other 2×2 […]
The Forest
Originally I had planned to make this triangle block in a fabric I’ve used elsewhere that has oval outlines on it. But when I actually sat down to cut out the […]
The Dwindling To-Do List
In 2024, I made my annual Dear Jane block goal for the first time in years (possibly ever). I completed 28 blocks in 2024, and completed 7 sashing sections. It […]
The Inconsistent Angles
The rotary instructions for this block were made more complicated by the Dear Jane software, which seems to think some of the angles on these pieces are 46 degrees instead […]