A few weeks ago I was hopping from blog to blog, when somebody mentioned their excitement about entering their 'Dear Jane' quilt into a special exhibition of 'Dear Jane' quilts in Nantes, France. A little further investigation, and I discovered that the "Pour l'Amour du Fil" (For the Love of Thread) show was being organised by the magazine Quiltmania. Regular readers will know that I am currently working on my 'Nearly Insane' Quilt, which is of a similar genre to 'Dear Jane', so I was intrigued, especially at the thought of seeing over 100 'Dear Jane' quilts together. 'Dear Jane' 150th Quilt Exhibition, Nantes, France 2013 I regularly go to the quilt shows in the UK, but this was my first 'European' show, which involved a ferry crossing from England to France and a little trip in our camper van. The exhibit of the 'Dear Jane' quilts was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. As you walked into the room, you could not help but gasp in amazement! Over 100 quilts, all the same, all different. There was a Hand- Dyed 'Dear Jane' Quilt Dear Jane Quilt (Hand-Dyed Fabrics) Paula Klein, Luxembourg There was an Indonesian fabric 'Dear Jane' Quilt Dear Jane Quilt (Indonesian Fabrics) Annie Tromp-Doornink, Netherlands There was a Low Volume 'Dear Jane' Quilt Dear Jane Quilt (Low Volume) Ineke Marijissen Van der Molen, Netherlands There was a Liberty Fabric 'Dear Jane' Quilt Dear Jane Quilt (Liberty Fabric) There was a Red and White Dear Jane Quilt Dear Jane Quilt (Red and White) Nathalie Pierre, France There were the traditional Civil War Fabric 'Dear Jane' Quilts Dear Jane Quilt (Civil War Reproduction Fabrics) Michel Galan France There were modern, bright with black background 'Dear Jane' Quilts Dear Jane Quilt (Modern Brights) Chantal Guyon, France There were modern, bright Batik 'Dear Jane' Quilts Dear Jane Quilt (Batik) Diane Rhode and Judy Doenias, USA And some really lovely, unique colour combinations Dear Jane Quilt (Greys, Reds) Rineke Imenshot, Netherlands Originally, Brenda Papadakis was due to attend to give a talk and run some 'Dear Jane' workshops, but due to a broken arm, was not able to travel to France from the USA. However, there were many of her ambassadors at the show, and it was fabulous. The impact of the display was so brilliant, thanks to the organisers and contributors for putting on such a brilliant exhibit. Never to be forgotten. They were all lovely. Do you have a favourite? Sharing the inspiration of this lovely event with Freemotion By the River and Quilt Story See more of my Quilting Adventure here
Hi everyone! Thank you so much for joining the Farmer's Wife 1930's Sew Along with Fat Quarter Shop, Angie of GnomeAngel, and Marti Michell. We loved
It has been a long, long wait from the start of my Farmer's Wife Sampler quilt, and you have stuck with me the whole way. Now, after weeks and weeks of nothing but individual blocks, I'm so excited (so, so excited) to show you the finished quilt top (minus the borders). Please excuse all the pictures. There are alot of them! My design wall (aka - a plastic picnic tablecloth) worked great and kept the un-sewn blocks from being tramped on through this process. I set the blocks on point, and used little squares of printed fabrics for the cornerstones, while using a creamy white for the sashings. I haven't decided what fabrics to use for the borders, so for now I just love to stare at it, in all of it's creamy, colorful goodness! If you haven't done so yet, you really ought to give this one a try! Quilt Stats :: pattern - Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt (found here) :: size - twin (83 blocks) :: block fabrics - scraps from my stash :: sashings - Moda Bella Solids #97 (Bleached White)
What a treat to see so many Dear Jane Quilts all in one place! This exhibit at Houston IQF celebrates 20 years since the publication of Brenda Ps book that started a revolution.
Hola Xiquetes!!! ...y otro Dear Jane acabado. Ahora solo falta acolcharlo. Es precioso!!!! Es el Dear Jane de Joana. ...
First of all, I want to apologize for the post that went out yesterday if you subscribe by email or just happened to look at my blog. I h...
A blog about using From Marti Michell templates and making Farmer's Wife 1930s Sew Along blocks
Sorry it's taken me so long to post anything, but here it is my layout..............Have also decided on the material; Black with White dots, Pale Blue with Darker Blue dots, and plain white. I am trying to be as organised about this as I can, so i have printed off all the blocks and sorted in a folder and that's about as far as I got before my little girls got sick again. Just over pneumonia and now some virus which has Amelia covered in a rash. Am hoping to get a few hours this weekend for my first attempt at quilting, there maybe a few calls to Anthea for help.
My Grandma's 90th Birthday is November 1st, and I wanted to do something really special for her. She has been one of my favorite people for a long time -- she used to fix the holes in my worn out teddy bear, over and over. She always choose the Old Maid card that my brother and I wanted to get rid of. And I still wish that she could make me a peanut butter sandwich every night for a bedtime snack, like she used to do when I slept over at her house. She makes the best peanut butter sandwiches, ever. When my Grandpa turned 90 years old a couple of years ago, my brother and cousins presented him with 90 bottles of beer. You should have seen the huge smile! So I wanted to do something equally amazing, and maybe even better, for Grandma. So here it is . . . . 90 quilt squares! After I read about the Farmer's Wife Quilt Along starting up, I knew that this group of blocks would be perfect. My Grandma wasn't a Farmer's Wife, but she was a farmer's daughter! I started making the blocks this past summer, but quickly realized that I would need (LOTS) of help if I was going to finish it in time. So I invited my mom, aunt, and uncle over for some quilting parties! They're not technically quilters, but my mom and aunt have done some sewing, and my uncle is a mathematician & painter, with a good eye for design and color. We spent most of our Tuesdays together for the past 2 months -- they'd arrive right after I dropped the kids off at school, and we'd sew for hours and hours. Most of the blocks are paper pieced -- and my quilting helpers did ALL of the tearing the paper off the backs for me -- how wonderful! We had so much fun together, that I've joked that we need to decide who to make a quilt for next -- we make a great team! We had a hard time deciding on a layout for the 90 blocks, because a simple square design of 9 x 10 blocks seemed too plain. And I wanted to make it large enough to fit a double/queen sized bed. One day we just started laying out our blocks on a huge piece of white fabric, and this design was born! For the blocks set on point, I cut a 5 1/2 inch square on the diagonal, then sewed these triangles on all four sides. For the squared up blocks, I added 2 1/2 inch sashing to all 4 sides. All blocks were then squared up to 9 inches. There is another 2 1/2 inch border around the very edge of the quilt. The fabrics are Kona Snow and Moda Sugar Pop. I free motion quilted this myself, using a fairly small meandering type pattern throughout the solid snow fabric. I love how it makes the blocks pop! The batting is Warm and White, and the back is a collection of left over pieces. She loved it! Linking up to:
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Since my Bernina is not cooperating at the moment, there are no finishes to report, so I blog some quilts from the quilt show I attended with my "A Lovely Foursome" quilt. The amazing work of Yoko Saito made me speachless. "Kvinne-arven" (Heritage of Women) by Tone Storhaug was amazing. It was assembeld of pieces of old table cloths and embroideries. There was also a book describing the history of the women that contributed with cloths. The quilt was voted the best in show by the audience, and will be part of the "Festival of Quilts" in England. No quilt show without a Dear Jane quilt! This one is called "Jane having the blues" and is made by Berit Hansen Gilde.
We're talking about Dear Jane®, that is... the civil war-era quilt, made by Jane A. Blakely Stickle in 1863. Jane's quilt had received sca...
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This is Katie's second layout, using white as all of the plain triangles... she's after more opinions! Any suggestions?
When I saw everyone was doing the Farmer’s Wife Quilt sampler I got a bit excited. I had started the Dear Jane Quilt but found the 4.5” bloc...
I have so far completed around 62 blocks of the Farmer’s wife quilt sampler. More information about how I am making this quilt. View all the blocks I have done so far. Mother’s Dream Night an…
Re-bonjour ! C'est ou "pas de nouvelles pendant 5 mois" ou 2 messages dans la même journée ... Afin de faire plaisir à mes fidèles lectrices .... voici le début de mes photos du salon de Nantes. Je commence par une des exposition "phare", c'est à dire...
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This afternoon I finished my Nearly Insane quilt !! These blocks are 6" and the whole quilt is 98 blocks, with 2 half blocks counted as 1. The quilt is machine quilted by Catherine Timms in Ontario, Canada. She does lovely work, as you see. I had the pleasure of bringing the quilt home from Canada a month ago. My beloved grand-cat offered her expertise in quilt inspection when I did the last inches of the binding :-) What is next ? Civil War Diary blocks, Dear Jane blocks in blue and brown, Dear Jane stitchery...... Never a dull moment here in my sewing corner :-)
Like most other quilters, I have a million UFOs and WIPs. I have a "dream" list a mile long. And, I have baggies of adorable fabric pulls...
The following is a list of all the block tutorials for Farmer’s Wife 1930’s Sampler Quilt Sew-along. Click a link to see the tutorial. Tutorials are listed in numerical and alphabetical order as per the book: Addie – Click here for tutorial Aimee – Click here for tutorial Alice – Click here for tutorial Ann...
Starting The Farmers Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt by Laurie Aaron Hird.
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This sampler quilt is from a new book The Farmer’s Wife: Letters from 1920s farm wives and the 111 blocks they inspired by Laurie Aaron Hird. If you join Homestead Hearth’s Farmer’…
¡¡Hola chicas!! Hoy, día de nuestra entrada final, con el Dear Jane acabado, solamente os ponemos unas fotos de como ha quedado, donde podéis observar el acolchado y el bies final con sus ondas Ha sido un largo camino, que ha durado 10 años, en los que hemos publicado una entrada cada 15 días con los tutoriales de todos los bloques, cuadrados y triangulares Nos vamos agradecidas de vuestras visitas y comentarios, y todo el blog quedará a vuestra disposición mientras blogguer lo permita, jajaja No habrá más entradas, aunque sí responderemos a todos vuestros comentarios Gracias, gracias, gracias.... ha sido una gran experiencia Hasta más ver Besoooooooooooooos
We hebben het Dear Jane patroon voor u in een PDF bestand gezet, zodat u het gemakkelijk uit kunt printen. Wij hebben alle borduurmaterialen op voorraad.
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My Grandma's 90th Birthday is November 1st, and I wanted to do something really special for her. She has been one of my favorite people for...
::sigh:: Isn’t this quilt so beautiful? I’ve had this on my Pinterest. I’m participating in the Rainbow Charm Swap on
Or, dear Jane, did you make up all your tiny blocks on your own? I know nineteenth-century sewers used to find sampler block patterns in magazines and the like. I wonder how many of Jane’s blocks c…
Here is what Jane and I have been up to. 7 Rows completed. Top Row and Right Side Triangles finished. 4 Bottom Row Triangles complete. One Corner Triangle finished. January's blocks are in the works. 5 Row G blocks complete. I am keeping up and still on track to complete in 13 months. How is your Dear Jane coming along? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Coming soon another great English Paper Piecing Project. Here is a look at our 2014 project. This years project will be a little smaller and a different shape but equally addicting.
I put these blocks into a grid with a black background to get a feel for how it will look with the sashing I am planning. I am planning on using this sashing: www.fatquartershop.com/store/stores_app/Browse_Item_Detai...
Here is what Jane and I have been up to. 7 Rows completed. Top Row and Right Side Triangles finished. 4 Bottom Row Triangles complete. One Corner Triangle finished. January's blocks are in the works. 5 Row G blocks complete. I am keeping up and still on track to complete in 13 months. How is your Dear Jane coming along? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Coming soon another great English Paper Piecing Project. Here is a look at our 2014 project. This years project will be a little smaller and a different shape but equally addicting.
Hallo Ihr Lieben, zuallererst eine Anmerkung in eigener Sache: mein mysteriöser Krankheitszustand hat sich bisher leider nicht geklärt, und auch ein Krankenhausaufenthalt vor ein paar Tagen konnte kein Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Aber wir sind dran und ich bleibe optimistisch. Leider bleibt hier vieles auf der Strecke und ich komme mit meinen ganzen Projekten nur...
We hebben het Dear Jane patroon voor u in een PDF bestand gezet, zodat u het gemakkelijk uit kunt printen. Wij hebben alle borduurmaterialen op voorraad.
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In January 2011, a blog named Fussy Cut, was doing a quilt along based on the book, The Farmer's Wife. The goal was to complete two blocks every week. In 1922, The Farmer's Wife magazine posed this question to their readers: "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?" The magazine at that time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. The best answers to this question are included in this book, along with the traditional quilt blocks they inspired. Here is one of the stories: City Life Holds No Glamour Having spent the first two years of my married life, as well as much of my childhood in Chicago, city life holds no glamour, no lure for me. I know its lacks too well. I would not exchange the homely joy of riding in a "tin Lizzie" in the country for the excitement of "keeping up with Lizzie" in the city or town. I have had more genuine enjoyment in caring for and breeding up my flock of beautiful White Rock chickens; more real pleasure in tending my flowers and vegetables, more honest satisfaction in working with the lambs and bees, than I ever experienced in the varied round of activities that made up my life in the city. Such wholesome, outdoor work serves not merely as an absorbing occupation for the moment, a time killer, so to speak but is also an investment which later pays well. There is not space here to tell of my love for ;the panorama of ever changing beauty that unrolls from my cabin on the hilltop. It must be admitted that country life has neither what is of more value to earnest men and women: wholesome living conditions, an excellent moral environment, opportunity for mental growth and spiritual development, and the possibilities of real and lasting happiness. It is my conviction that when America wearies of jazz and reverts, as a nation, to the ideals of her pioneer forefathers, a=many will find in the simple joys of the country an antidote to over sophistication. We who are already on the land and love it, despite all its lacks, know the blessed peace and security and happiness that nature offers those who have discernment enough to "hold communion with her visible forms." There is a possibility of 111 6" blocks in the book. Originally, I was planning on making a queen size quilt which would take 110 blocks. As I was sewing the blocks, I realized that 110 blocks was too ambitious! I decided to make 50 blocks, which is a lap quilt. There is a CD that comes with the book and you can print off paper piecing templates. It is so much easier to just cut out the pieces with your rotary cutter. Bee in my Bonnet had some great tutorials and ideas. I made six design boards, foam board with quilt batting, trimmed in cute fabric. The quilt batting lets the little pieces stick, and you can audition which fabric combinations look best together before you sew them together. Then I bought a little binder with 5" X 7" page protectors to hold my sketched blocks. I decided to make my blocks in 30's prints, otherwise known as "Aunt Gracie". Here are most of the photos of the 6 l/2" blocks. Most I absolutely love, but some I'm not that crazy about. I used every color, so the quilt will have a "scrappy" look. The blocks were lying on the floor for a long time. I have never worked on a quilt where the blocks were set on a point. It took a little while to get used to. I bought slate colored fabric for the sashing, pale pink for the posts and pastel yellow for the setting triangles. I thought the slate would show off the colors of the blocks. I sewed some of the sashing, posts and triangles and marked each row with a slip of paper. Row 1, row 2, etc. Then I folded them up very carefully so they wouldn't wrinkle, to work on when I have more time. I have two projects I am working on right now that I need to have completed in two weeks. That is the story of my "Farmer's Wife" quilt so far..... I have a "Farmer's Wife" board on pinterest if you want to take a peek.
Modern Dear Jane Quilt This page is to provide updates and keep myself honest on my Modern Dear Jane Quilt progress. I started on October 15, 2012, and my goal is to make 5 blocks a week until I have my dream quilt - a Dear Jane - completely finished. Help me stay on track, ok?! :-) I have been in love with Dear Jane quilts for years now, and I love them all equally - from the original Dear Jane, to 1930s Dear Janes, to the Rainbow Jane, and on down the line. Really, there's nothing particularly "modern" about my version of "That Quilt" aside from the fabric. About the fabric: Some of you have asked how I chose my fabric. I started a Dear Jane once before and found that the most difficult thing for me at that point (I didn't have a large stash to pull from then) was finding and choosing fabric. When I decided to start again, I initially planned on doing just a 2-fabric quilt to eliminate the difficulty of fabric choosing on every block. The background I chose is a white with some blue dot, and the main fabric is a solid blue. I quickly discovered, though, that I wanted a little pop of red, so I've been adding that little touch with scraps from my stash. The fabric choosing has been greatly simplified, though, by doing it this way. Now all of my focus can be on the sewing - which is difficult enough as it is! Maybe on the next one I'll branch out to different fabrics for each block, but I really like how this 3-color quilt is turning out. Please link and pin away! Thank you for sharing my work with your followers. You keep me motivated to take up the next block ! :-) Happy stitching, Kelly Read each blog post here Week 11 Week 10 Week 9 Week 8 Week 7 Week 6 Week 5 Week 4 Week 3 Week 2 Week 1 Finished Blocks
Once a quarter we plan an All Day Stitchin’ Day with our Dear Jane Club at Quilter’s Dream. This month we proclaimed it a Party! Everyone brought food to share. But the highlight of …
