The Penultimate Patchwork
I’d been dragging my feet on doing this, the “first” block, because it bothered me that the design in the Dear Jane book and software (as shown below) did not […]
Blocks
The Smooth Sailing
I’m glad I saved one last beginner block to recharge me for the last couple of remaining blocks. But is this really a beginner block? It’s giving me flashbacks to […]
The Troublesome Techniques
This block contained so many techniques that have historically been troublesome: tiny pieces, diamond-in-a-square segments, and y-seams. Working from the center out, the first troublesome technique was tiny pieces. That […]
The Footnotes
It may seem like the only thing I did at retreat was stitch one triangle border together, but I actually got a few other things done. For starters, I cut […]
The Puzzling Connection
I’ve just returned from our guild’s quilting retreat, and I’m still in that “not quite ready to unpack and return to reality” phase. I spent a lot of the retreat […]
The Photographic Evidence
This was another one of those blocks where I felt uninspired by the fabric I’d chosen, and wanted to find something new to use instead. And this was the color […]
The Odds and Ends
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 […]
The Nesting Nine-Patches
I took this block on a weekend getaway … I definitely needed something simple, to get away from the ghosts of quilt blocks past in my last sashing segment. This […]
The Waste Management
I don’t like to waste any of my precious time at quilting retreat, so this block was done from start to finish on the third and final day. But the […]
The Vibrant Fabric
In between my last big chunk of sashing and my next big chunk of sashing (forthcoming), I wanted to sneak in a quick block, and this one seemed to fit the bill. […]
The Marking Miss
This block looks complicated, but once you sew those little triangles onto the kite shapes to make pie wedges, it’s essentially just a slightly rotated pinwheel block. The biggest challenge […]
The Bounty of Light Greens
I’ve got several light green blocks left to do, so I’m trying to sprinkle them in periodically. I wouldn’t want to have light green overload! And I felt like this […]