Ну что сказать? Я тоже прильнула к замечательному проекту Ирины Мур :) Как точно и иронично сказал Василий Алибабаевич: "Все побежали – и я побежал". Шью Dear Jane. Готовы 7 первых блоков. Причем, сшились за вечер! Получаю огромное удовольствие от милипусечных размеров, от мастер-классов Ирины. И отдельную радость – от названий блоков. На сегодняшний день готовы: Блок №1. M-10. Simple Simon (Простак) Блок №2. M-12.Hopscotch.(Классики) Блок №3. J-7.Chicken Tracks (Куриные лапки или Цыплячьи следы) Блок № 4. C-12. Family Reunion (Семейная встреча) Блок № 5. I-1.Ralph&Nelda's Wedding (Свадьба Ральфа и Нелды) Блок №6.K-2.Grandpa's Chickens (Дедушкины цыплята) И мой любимчик! Блок №7.J-6.Granny Weaver (Бабуля-ткачиха) Немного кружит голову перспектива. Легендарный квилт у меня дома!!! (Правда, года через 4 в самом лучшем случае.) Но перед началом работы, как и многие, сделала самой себе трезвую установку: "Если интерес потеряю, сошью из того, что будет на тот момент". Так работать легче. Прошлась по блогам, удивилась, как серьезно некоторые девушки подошли к цветовому решению. Сначала расстроилась. А потом решила – пусть остается как есть. Задумка такая: бежевая основа и разноцветные детали сдержанных цветов. Использовать буду лоскутки от других свои квилтов. Вот, кстати, один из них. Симпатичный "Family Farm" ("Семейная ферма") по дизайну Джуди Мартин (Judy Martin) из ее книги.

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Met grote quilts vind ik het makkelijk met een schema te werken. Zo werkte ik bij de Dear Jane al met een kleurenschema voor de blokken dat rechts op de foto te zien is. Nu werk ik met een quiltschema. Ik zorg wel steeds dat ik iets voor lig op schema, zodat ik , als dat nodig is, een dag niets kan doen. I like to work with a scheme while working on a large quilt. I already used a color scheme for my Dear Jane as you can see on the right in the first picture. This time I use a quilt scheme. The trick is to work a bit in advance. That way you can always take a day off.

Ik krijg wel vaker de vraag in de winkel, maar moet het antwoord altijd schuldig blijven. "Het patroon voor Dear Jane in kruissteekje...

Row A done and sashed together. Sashing is 1/2" finished so strips should be cut 1" x 5" I am going to join each row together as I go. It will make storage and assembly easier.

Last week was my birthday and also the Vermont Quilt Festival. I live in Washington DC but we were traveling to see family in the New England area for the 4th of July holiday. When I learned that t…

When I'm machine sewing, there are times when my machine decides that it is going to eat that leading edge of my fabric. This happens because those long threads get down into the hole in the plate and get all tangled up and cause problems. Bonnie Hunter at www.quiltville.com is the originator of the leaders and enders idea and explains it in full detail on her web site and in her book Adventures with Leaders and Enders. The idea is to always have a piece of fabric under the presser foot. Do I do this? Of course, I always have a piece of fabric under my presser foot. I always keep a little pile of scraps over at the side of my machine. But, I have to admit that what I use is a scrap piece of fabric that I've folded over and over and sewn until there is so much thread that you can barely see the fabric pattern showing through. Oh, I understand the concept of leaders and enders, but I just have never done it the right way.....until now. Earlier I visited Janet's blog and found a cute post that she wrote about all of the temptations that Bonnie Hunter puts up on her web site. As I read on, she talked about a cute bow tie project. So after I read Janet's post, I went on over to Quiltville and there, sure enough, was the photo of the antique bow tie quilt. There were also directions on how to cut the pieces for a leader/ender project. I went ahead and printed them out just in case I ever wanted to give this a try. As I studied the directions, I decided that it all made sense and so I just cut a few pieces of fabric. After all this is from my stash, and I have this big piece of cheddar print that I bought for a project and didn't use. It really does make sense to actually make something from those little pieces of fabric that you send through the machine before and after the quilt you are working on. The big squares are cut at 2", and the smaller ones are 1 1/4". These bow ties will finish at 3". They are really easy to make. Just sew on the line. After you sew these little pieces onto the cheddar, you can cut away part of the underneath triangle, and then press them down. Then you sew it all together. And before you know it, you have made a few bow ties. I hope you are doing some stitching today. I'm hoping to make a few more bow ties. Thanks for stopping by for a visit today! Bow Ties.....Option B After looking at my cheddar and repro bow tie blocks that I've started cutting and sewing for my Leader and Ender project, I decided to make a few using some brighter fabrics. The brights are made from 2 1/2" squares/strips and will finish at 4 inches. Here are my cheddar bow ties. They finish at 3 inches. I kind of like both, but I'm still trying to finish some of my UFOs. I'm trying hard not to start too many new projects...even if they are going to be leader and ender projects. You only need to sew 5 seams to make one of these blocks so they go together pretty quickly. Which do you like best?

I am drawn to Dear Jane quilts at quilt shows because they are so awesome and because I am trying to finish mine! I saw two at the Denver Quilt Show (first two pictured here) and two at HMQS. It's amazing how different they all are. This one is called Friendship in Every Stitch and was made by Mae Elliott. It was hand appliquéd and hand pieced, then long arm quilted by Valerie Campbell. I took some close ups of the quilting because that will be my next step, after I get it all pieced together, and I wanted some ideas. This star block is one I've completed, but I'm thinking of making it over because I don't like the fabrics I chose for it. But look at that tiny star in the middle! I will dread that if I decide to re-do it. I think I will wait until the quilt is on the design wall and see if it still bothers me.... This quilt was pretty heavily quilted on the long arm. It looks great but I'm thinking of not quilting mine quite so heavily. This one is called Dear Jane Goes Batty with Batiks and was made by Patricia Lamfers. It was machine pieced and machine and long arm quilted. You can see it has different sized blocks amongst the five inch blocks and a different border. Dear Jane by Jean Ludeman She used background fabric around the border triangles which is different but effective. I am planning on using cornerstones, as she did, in the sashing. Very nice quilting in this one too. Ladies in Red by Crystal North and quilted by Wren Woodland Crystal digitized the DJ patterns and stitched them out on her embroidery machine. It turned out very pretty but I'm guessing it's a stiff quilt. I don't machine embroider so I don't know, but that looks like a LOT of thread! I haven't made my 12 DJ blocks for May yet. I better get busy!!

Wednesday and Thursdays work, 50th – 53rd blocks complete… C2 Streak of Lightning. I drafted this a little different from the book to avoid having to hand appliqué the outer diamonds. M…

Dear Jane квилт, блоки

Et voilà ce que j'ai trouvé et que je partage avec vous... VOUS LE CONNAISSEZ BIEN SUR !!! et là je viens de trouver le diagramme gratuit pour le broder !!!!! c'est ICI

This quilt is a first for me in two ways: it is my first foundation piecing quilt and it is my first QAYG quilt too. Both techniques were a bit intimidating to me but both have turned out to be qui…

Met grote quilts vind ik het makkelijk met een schema te werken. Zo werkte ik bij de Dear Jane al met een kleurenschema voor de blokken dat rechts op de foto te zien is. Nu werk ik met een quiltschema. Ik zorg wel steeds dat ik iets voor lig op schema, zodat ik , als dat nodig is, een dag niets kan doen. I like to work with a scheme while working on a large quilt. I already used a color scheme for my Dear Jane as you can see on the right in the first picture. This time I use a quilt scheme. The trick is to work a bit in advance. That way you can always take a day off.

I decided to make the "flower" in this block a little bigger so I didn't have to add as large a border to it. I started with four 2 3/4" squares with snowballs on all four corners and cut some 3/4" strips as well. Then I cut each snowballed square in half and sewed a strip in the centre and joined these in pairs. I then cut these two rectangles in half and sewed another strip in their centres. I then sewed these pairs together. I should have made my squares slightly larger so no border at all would have been required. I ended up adding a 5/8" strip which means my border was only 1/8" wide once the sashing was added, oh well, live and learn. Here's E7 finished. And here are my first 12 blocks sewn together. 46 separate pieces of fabric in this one little square!

Wednesday and Thursdays work, 50th – 53rd blocks complete… C2 Streak of Lightning. I drafted this a little different from the book to avoid having to hand appliqué the outer diamonds. M…

OK, here I am and I'll try to make a little tutorial to show you how I asseble my finished blocks with the QAYG method. 1. Step Take two blocks. Be sure they are 5". 2. Step Cut two sashing strips, one 1" and one 1 1/4". 3. Step Add the 1 1/4" sashing to the back of your block pinning in place, then add the 1" sashing to the front of your block and pin in place. 4. Step Sew all this sandwich together using a 1/4" seam allowance. 5. Step Flip the front sashing and press, put the second block right sight on top of the sashing, lining up the raw edges. Pin in place and stitch again using 1/4" seam allowance. 6. Step Press your sashing. Now your blocks are toghter on the front. 7. Step Flip over your blocks to the back, turn under your sashing and make sure it is 1/2" wide. Slip stitch the sashing into position. DONE!! Now join all your blocks together like this and join the rows with a long sashing that measures the complete lengh of you row.

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

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…

Pour faire suite au billet du 07 Novembre ICI Tous les mois, avec mes copines du vendredi, nous nous retrouvons pour continuer notre folle aventure. Pour certaines, ça avance tout doucement, peut être pas si folles que ça finalement les copines ! Sauf...

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Making 10 Dear Baby Jane blocks at a time using the white on white background fabric can really make you insane. Dear Baby Jane E-10 Five & Dime and F-2 Kaleidoscope A-1 Pinwheel Gone Awry and …

 Dear Jane Quilt - Block G-7 Indianapolis I am very pleased with this block. It is the first time I have used my red Kim Diehl fabric. Also I am very pleased with my striped fabric which has been fussy cut. I am also very pleased with the neat circle. English Paper Piecing - ROCKS. This block is in the centre of the Dear Jane quilt, so it had to look good. Living in the UK, I thought I ought to check where Indianapolis was in the USA. It is in the state of Indiana, towards the East coast. This is the state Brenda Papdakis was living when she wrote the Dear Jane quilt book. Techniques: English Paper Piecing Pieces: 21

Casi estrenando la primavera, os traigo una nueva fila de bloques. Ver como se reflejan los avances en el gráfico es para mi una divertida motivación para continuar, entre otras razones. En esta ocasión es la FILA H, en la que los bloques 6 y 8 me salieron especialmente rebeldes, por lo que tuve que ponerme algo cabezona con ellos.... :-)))) El bloque 8 lo acabe de forma diferente...creo que es el único en todo el quilt en el que he "metido algo de imaginación" por no llamarlo pereza al pensar en repetirlo, ya que solo se trata de un cambio en la orientación del cuadrado central. Aquí van los bloques, a ver que os parecen... H-1 Peek-a-boo H-2 Jacob Anthony H-3 Berry Baskets H-4 Abbey´s Eyes H-5 Michael´s Motorcycle H-6 Pie Sale H-7 Bennington Star H-8 Eaton´s Crossroads H-9 Snowflake Melt H-10 Ben´s Bowtie H-11 Piercing Rays H-12 Hannah Lou´s Hearts H-13 Farm Fields

¡Madre mía, cómo pasan los días de rápido, ya estamos a primeros de mayo! Y como corresponde, aquí estamos de nuevo mi amiga Marta y yo para enseñaros los bloques terminados en esta quincena para el Dear Jane. Bueno, los suyos los veréis en su blog, que están espectaculares de bonitos!! Para esta cuarta entrega hemos completado la fila B y dos triángulos más de la parte superior, con estos van seis ya. Tengo que reconocer que de este grupo unos bloques me gustan más que otros, bueno, como en los anteriores, pero en concreto hay dos que no me convencen demasiado... aunque no desvelaré cuales son, jejejje. Lo que sí me gusta es el descubrimiento que he hecho en estos últimos días... la técnica del apliquilt. Que no es que la haya descubierto yo, noooo, ni mucho menos!!... ya estaba inventada hace tiempo pero yo no la había probado aún. Y es que las aplicaciones (esos melones dichosos...) quedan de maravilla y se hacen mucho mejor, un lujo, vamos!! Os dejo el enlace a un tuto, por si os apetece probarlo. Aquí encontraréis un PDF del Tutorial para apliquilt de Lynette Anderson Como veréis en el tutorial, venden unos palitos especiales para esta técnica, pero os diré que yo me he apañado muy requetebién sustituyéndolos por un palito de naranjo... sí, de esos de madera que se usan para la manicura. Y el pegamento... el de barra de toda la vida me ha ido genial también. Y ale, vamos ya a dar un vistazo bloque a bloque. B8 Water Lily B9 Tinker Toy B10 Jud's Trophy B11 Melissa's Cross B12 Starflower B13 Four Corner Press Top Row 5 Top Row 6 ¡Fila B terminada, esto va que vuela! ¡Hasta pronto!

Dear Jane Quilt - Block K5 Passing Through I mentioned that the halfway point is coming soon. There are 229 pieced blocks in total, made up of 169 squares and 60 border triangles. Dear Jane block K5 Passing Through is the 107th I have completed. Techniques: English Paper Piecing and Applique Pieces: 12 pieces