The Light
My 2024 quilting goal includes two Dear Jane blocks per month, and the first block of March took so long, it was going to be a rush job to finish […]
Triangles
The Escape
I’d thought this was a relatively straightforward pieced block, but when I looked more closely, it had two appliqué pieces (the diamond and on-point square at the top). I just […]
The Temporary Template
One of the things I discovered with the previous block is how (not) to do appliqué that goes right up to a seam. I didn’t talk about it in the […]
The Dark and Stormy Night
I started this triangle block at in-person retreat, and finished it at an “at-home virtual retreat” a couple of days later. After the dramatically Covid-infested Spring Retreat, I opted to […]
The Balancing Act
In my blog planning software, I originally referred to this block as “Diamond on Pyramid on Chevron on Triangles on Trapezoid” … and the pieces in this block do indeed […]
The Non-Cheater
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of Dear Jane quilts where the quilter had used more than two fabrics (one background and one flashy) per block. This is a concept […]
The Pattern Puzzle
Printing out the pattern pieces for these triangle blocks from the Dear Jane software is always an adventure. You have to remember to change the size setting before printing, because […]
The Broken Hearts
I’d been saving this heart block for February, thinking it would be appropriate for the month with Valentine’s Day. But I’m not exactly feeling the love for a block that […]
The Patternmaker
This was a “mixed media” block of sorts, at least as far as the pattern pieces were concerned. The top part of the triangle has foundation piecing patterns to print out. […]
The Many Milestones
With a virtual mini-retreat earlier this month, I’ve stacked up all kinds of completed blocks to blog about. And yet, here it is the last day of November, and I’m […]
The Runway
I’m kicking myself now for using the title “The Perspective” for my last blog article, since it seems like the perfect title for this block with a narrowing stripe of […]
The Spatula
When my Mom’s friend Val passed away, Mom went to her estate sale and bought her spatula. It was a pretty nice spatula, with a little lip on it that […]