So glad you are done! 70 hours later and a ton of thread later you are finished! Hooray! Here's the quilt in Gwen's (owner of the DJ) own words: "Hello to Judi's fans! Judi asked for my "story" about this quilt. Truth is, I can't remember why I decided to do a Dear Jane. Crazy, right? I had never undertaken such a large project in my quilting history prior to making this commitment, nor had I ever enjoyed applique up to that point. However, the single greatest factor in motivating me to work on and complete this quilt is that Anina provided fabulous block tutorials two days per week so I just followed along. Top that with Kaffe Fassett's colorful fabrics and I had all the stimulation I needed to keep going week after week, from December 2008 to March 2010. 225 blocks and 4,948 little pieces of fabric later, we add Judi's amazing talent and magic to the fray and, well, here we are. I couldn't be happier with the overall result. If you are inclined to do a DJ, just start with one block --- an easy one, maybe the nine-patch --- then move on to the next easiest one. Just keep going. You'll be surprised at how much fun it is. Click here for more inspiration. And the best part about doing the DJ is that I'm now a huge fan of applique. Have you seen Kim McLean's appliqued quilt designs? I'm almost done with Flower Pots. Next???!!!" Isn't this quilt incredible? I love it. However - after spending 70 hours doing stitch in the ditch - I don't think I will be piecing this quilt any time soon - sorry - maybe when the kids are grown and out of the house. It will have to be on my "bucket" list for now. At first I wasn't sure what I was going to do on this quilt, but it hit me "like a ton of bricks" when I started quilting and I decided that each block needed to be individualized because of how much work went into each block. That is why I just did a straight stitch in the sash, it sets off each block perfectly I think. The bottoms of the large triangles were 5 inches - so 4 equal straight lines to set these off. I used a gold metallic thread for these. Quilting around the curves were fun - just a little bit of marking with a purple marker - and some figuring around the corners and there you go - I love it! Probably my most favorite quilting picture I have ever taken! Do you see how the curved border has curved diamonds? I absolutely love it! I enjoyed quilting this DJ, but I am so glad to have it finished! Yay!
This quilt is affectionately know by its fans as Dear Jane, in honor of…
Dear Jane Quilt - the Halfway Edition! As promised here is the latest update on my Dear Jane quilt progress. I haven't pulled out the blocks since the last update in February and it is like meeting up with old friends. Dear Jane Quilt - the Halfway Edition! I don't lay them out in their correct order because it is so incomplete, but the Electric Quilt image below gives an idea of how it is going to go together. The eagle eyed will notice that their placement is not the same as the original Jane Stickle quilt either. That is the plan. Dear Jane Quilt - the Halfway Edition! Electric Quilt Software The white blanks are slowly filling up and some of the lines are nearly complete - it's just like playing BINGO! If you pop back to the post in October 2015 you can really see the progress I have made in the last six months. On the sidebar you can see this image updated regularly, but I like to capture a snapshot in these progress posts for a sense of progression. Dear Jane Quilt - the Halfway Edition! From the pretty piles of blocks above and the statistics in the table below you can see that I have yet to do a PURPLE block, which will hopefully pull the final colour scheme together. You can also see that I have added those little extras to the data below - the sashing, the cornerstones and the alternate triangles. It all has to be done and then I have to think about putting it together and removing those tiny bits of paper. Blocks Triangle Red 13/29 4/8 Purple 0/12 0/8 Blue 12/20 4/8 Green 8/28 4/8 Yellow 16/36 4/12 Orange 40/44 8/12 TOTAL 89/169 (52%) 16/56 (42%) Sashing 17/312 (5%) Cornerstones 28/144 (20%) Triangles 5/56 (8%) I have spotted other bloggers out there working steadily at their Dear Jane quilt. UKCityCrafter is building up a lovely collection of Dear Jane blocks in blue and white, the contrast is going to be stunning when it is put together.
Dear Jane is coming along right on schedule. Five Months = Five Rows Complete, Top Row Triangles finished and Eight Right Side Triangles done. How is your Dear Jane coming along?
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.
Dear Jane Quilt - Slow Stitching Sunday I am pretty laid back when it comes to timescales I take to make a English Paper Pieced quilt - I am in no hurry. However, once it is no longer portable I tend to get less time to work on it and it seems to take for ever to come together. I am at that stage now with my Dear Jane quilt. I have at last got all the Dear Jane square blocks together, along with the sashing and the cornerstones and I am now finally working on the border triangles. Also I would like to welcome Laura Bender who is my 300th Follower on my blog! Time to join up with Kathy at Slow Stitching Sunday.
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!!
Hola Xiquetes!!! ...y otro Dear Jane acabado. Ahora solo falta acolcharlo. Es precioso!!!! Es el Dear Jane de Joana. ...
Patchwork Jane Stickle quilt, aussi appelé Dear Jane, ligne A. Partage à propos des techniques employées et du quilting choisi. en images.
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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.
Made by Alexandra Lake, Shrewsbury, UK
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 Denve...
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!
I finally got A1 done for my Dear Jane quilt! I think I started this one three weeks ago. I've only had small snippets of time to work on it, and I finished it tonight. However, when I was going through my blocks (all 3 of them!), I realized that I made one in the wrong color. Argh! That didn't take long! I considered switching it with another block, but I think I want it to be right, so I'll re-make that block. Fortunately, it was the easiest one I've made so far. It will probably happen again, so maybe I'll keep a pile of castaways for another project!
This is done using reverse appliqué for the centre circle then normal hand appliqué for the corner circles and then piecing the border in at...
This one was a breeze! NB: You HAVE to mirror the diagram if you want your block to look like Jane's. Foundation pieced. Print or trace the diagram (MIRRORED!) onto your foundation paper, cut apart the sections on the seam lines, and number them. (I changed the numbering a little after making the block.) Foundation piece the individual sections. Remember to leave a ¼" seam allowance all the way around each piece. Sew the little squares to their corresponding rectangle pieces, checking the diagram to make sure you orientate them correctly. (speaking from experience here) Complete the block. It doesn't get much simpler than this.
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…
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
I set myself a goal of trying to finish the 169 square blocks of my Dear Jane quilt before the end of 2013. The blocks are finished, and I am only a few days late! In fact, I made 170 blocks, not 1…
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
I work best with a plan. I do not want this project to linger on and on. I am setting a goal of 13 months. That will be one row and 4 triangles each month. It does not really sound that bad, right?. Please remind me I said this when I start to fall behind. Here are a few of the things I have gathered to make things go a little smoother. 1. I spiral bound my Dear Jane book. It makes it easier to work with and do copying if necessary. 2. Pins with flat heads, necessary for paper piecing and the box is so cute. 3. Carol Doak's Foundation Paper for printing blocks. 4. A presentation notebook to organize monthly patterns. 5. Dear Jane square and triangle rulers ( not pictured ) I will some of these items in the shop and online soon. I have the Dear Jane software from the Electric Quilt Company. I will be using this to print rotary instruction and foundation patterns. If you do not have this you can refer to thatquilt for tips on block construction or measure them out yourself. I will not be offering block construction tips here. My goal is to get all those unfinished quilts out of the boxes in your closets and to keep you motivated whatever your goal is. I will check in every Tuesday with my weekly progress and would love to here how you are doing. Of course I will be using the traditional Dear Jane colors and layout. I am starting with A-1 and working my way along in order. This week I went a little crazy. 13 blocks - Row 1 complete I will also be posting each block individually when they are completed on Instagram so you can follow along there too. Set a goal and lets get busy.
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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This month was Dear Jane Night at our Alpine Quilt Group. It was really a lot of fun hearing about Jane's quilt and to see some of the completed Dear Jane Quilts and Dear Jane's that are in varying processes of completion. Some of the ladies also shared stories of a trip that several of them made back to Vermont to see Jane's Quilt. It was fun listening to their adventures. I've been following an online group of Dear Jane fanatics at that quilt for over a year now but I'm not actively current at the moment. Go check out Anina's blog, she creates wonderful tutorials on each block and it's so fun to follow along. Personally, I still only have 14 blocks done and over 150 more to go and that's not even counting the border blocks. After seeing the Dear Jane quilts tonight, I am inspired to keep going. One quilter in our group said that she's on the 30 year plan. I'm not too far behind her. lol! I'm sure you can guess which color of Dear Jane Quilt was my favorite... Look closely at this quilt. Can you guess what's different about this Dear Jane? I just love how this quilt looks. If you look closely you will see that each block is machine embroidered. Clever, huh? She used white thread on red fabric and red thread on white fabric and alternated the blocks. I absolutely love how this turned out. Even the borders are beautifully done. Someone asked how much thread she went through and she said that it only took 2 big spools of white and 2 big spools of red thread to make the blocks. I do have to apologize that I was 30 minutes late to quilting so I missed all of the show n' tell. I really hate missing show n' tell. I know it's the best part but I just had to make my blocks for the last month of our block exchanges. I totally forgot! Below you will see a quilt that my friend, Dianna made from the blocks we've been exchanging for the last 9 months. Don't you just love it? The center is actually a panel. I've been burning my candle at both ends and in the middle too! Heck, I'm not sure if I have any candle left. Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm really sorry I've not been blogging much lately either but I will try to do a few more posts this week or weekend. I've been reading as many blogs as I have time for and love every minute I can take to visit all of you. I hope you're having a great week so far. I'll be doing a Halloween post to show you all of the costume sewing I've been doing. I have one done, one nearly done, and two more to go maybe part of a third one too. I know! Call me CRAZY!! That's my name lately!!
Out of main block fabric, cut four squares 3" x 3". Out of background fabric, cut four squares 3" x 3". With a pencil or marker, draw a diagonal line corner to corner on the wrong side of all four background fabric squares. Pair up each background fabric square with a main fabric square and place them right sides together. Sew a seam 1/4" from the diagonal line on each side of the line. Cut on the diagonal line. Press open. You will now have eight half square triangles. Lay them out as in the photo below. Sew them together to form two pinwheel blocks. Cut out a 1" square from the center of one of the pinwheel blocks to reduce bulk. Trace or print the center shape of the block onto the dull side of freezer paper and cut out. Iron this shape onto the right side of one of the pinwheel blocks, carefully lining up the seam lines on the shape with the actual seams on the block. Cut out, leaving a seam allowance of about 1/4". Place the shape section right side up onto the right side of the pinwheel block, lining up all the seam lines. Baste through all layers. (I forgot to take a photo here.) Turning the seam allowance under, applique the shape to the block. Trim the resulting block to 3 5/8" square. Out of background fabric, cut two squares 3 1/8" x 3 1/8" and cut each in half on the diagonal. Sew the background fabric triangles to the center section as below. Sew opposing triangles first and then the remaining two. Use your preferred applique method to applique the diamond shapes to the block.
This is Katherine Murray's Dear Jane. If you are unfamiliar with Dear Jane, the original quilt was made by Jane Stickle circa 1863, and it has been well preserved and a pattern made. More information can be found at www.dearjane.com Katherine has seen the original, and brought photos of it for me to see. From that, we chose the angular quilting in the setting triangle border blocks and the echo quilting of the scallops. As you can see in the block above, Katherine finished piecing Dear Jane in 2015, and has 5379 pieces in this quilt. I don't recall seeing any duplicate fabrics in the blocks, but there were a lot of blocks, so I cannot say for sure. Katherine wanted the quilting fairly light--but she loves feathers and so I added those in where I could. I started trying to choose which photos to show here--and then decided that anyone reading this would want to see them ALL! wool batting. so fine thread. Thank you, Katherine, for trusting me with your Dear Jane. I probably won't ever piece one, but I sure enjoyed quilting it.
