The Soul Patch
Since I finished the previous block on the second day of the month, I felt like I had a good shot to finish a second block in July. Most of […]
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 Perspective
“I want to figure out a new dark fabric for this one!” I said to myself in Spring of 2021. But more than a year later, I still had no […]
The Very Edge
Overall, it’s pretty exciting to finally be stitching some of the blocks together, but some of those blocks go together more smoothly than others. In this particular set of four blocks, two […]
The Outside In
With the pandemic not as wound down as I’d like, our few vacations have been short trips to places within driving distance. So, in May, I ambitiously packed supplies for […]
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 […]
The Snail’s Pace
This is just a quick post to talk about my recent progress on adding sashing to blocks and sewing them together. In March, I sashed blocks M12 and M13, down in […]
The April Fool
March is historically not a great month for our family, and this one was no exception – a stressful and draining 31 days for sure. So, I wanted a Dear Jane block […]
The Right Track
While making this triangle block, I had so many flashbacks to my first triangle (with diagonal stripes), remembering just how easy it is to get off track with these triangle […]
The Assembly Line
My handful of faithful blog subscribers are probably wondering what happened to me, and whether I’ve given up on Dear Jane/Paulette entirely. Never fear, I am continuing to make slow […]
The Quadrants
This is another one of those blocks where there are as many possible construction methods as there are quilters. The Dear Jane software has you making the four quadrants of […]
The Rock and the Roll
Sometimes I can’t figure out why blocks are marked as advanced difficulty. Often it’s because it has set-in seams, but there weren’t any here. Nor did it have particularly tiny […]