I’m down to single digits of Dear Jane blocks left to do – all the odds and ends – and this block itself feels like a collection of odds and ends. It’s just a bunch of miscellaneous squares and triangles that somehow come together to make a block.

The finished block has a neat Celtic knot look, but it wasn’t clear how all those odds and ends were going to tie together when I first started it.

I’m still not sure I understand why one of those long horizontal bars of white fabric has an extra seam and one does not. I looked at the picture of Jane’s version of this block after I finished, and it seems like she had an extra seam on both of the long horizontal bars.

But I followed the recipe and made one with an extra seam and one without. I guess at least this way, I know which side of this odds and ends block is right side up.

And with nearly all the pieces being squares or half-square triangles, this block seemed like my best (remaining) bet for using my new quilt stamps on a Dear Jane block. Aside from the longer strips, all the pieces (squares and triangles) could be marked and cut out using the stamps in my LeMoyne Star stamp set.

It felt a little weird having some of the blocks marked with stamps and some marked by hand with ceramic pencil, but it sure was fast to mark super precise stitching lines on the stamp-able pieces!

However, I’m worried that the stamped pieces were too precise, compared to the hand-marked pieces, which are destined to be a scant quarter-inch seam because of the nature of pencils.

The block is done now, but it feels like the hand-marked longer strips are a little bigger and “puff out” from the rest of the block. Hopefully, this is my imagination, and it will all settle nicely once it’s attached to the other blocks and quilted.

But this may be the last block where I try to use the stamps. I really need to find a project where I can exclusively use stamps, so the pieces are more consistent … just as soon as I wrap up the last odds and ends of this never-ending Dear Jane quilt.