The Dots to Connect
I’ve wanted to use this dots fabric since I first laid eyes on it, and I felt like this was a perfect block for it. I’d imagined having more than […]
The Design Choices
The early drafts of this article were a lot longer … a jumble of feelings about retreat and family and self-centered fellow quilters. But a common theme emerged: design choices. […]
The Circling Birds
This was the block I’d been stewing about how to construct at the end of March. I decided that once we were at the start of a fresh month (April), […]
The Outer Limits
Finishing my block goals on the next to last day of the month, I had to look to the outer limits of the quilt to find some sashing that I […]
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 […]
The Scant Stripes
My friend Kathleen gave me a very small piece of this striped fabric, where the colors are just perfect for my quilt. The idea was to fussy cut the fabric […]
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 Other February Holiday
I cut out the pieces for this about a week before Valentine’s Day, in hopes of a timely finish. But of course I’m so behind on my blogging that you’re […]
The Things to Talk About
I keep thinking there’s going to be nothing interesting to talk about on these sashing articles, because the sashing process is pretty much the same for all the blocks, but […]
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 Rulers that Rule
Over the course of this project, I’ve constantly been looking to upgrade my tools. I have gone on quests for new marking pencils, needles (and more needles), pins (and more pins), pressing mats, […]
The Bold Trek
It didn’t seem like a block wrapped up on the third of December should count for the December goal, so I decided to knock out another one … and with the […]