Dear Jane remembered

Since I finished my quilt I needed to find something to do.

What can I say - the choices are limitless.

I didn't really want to start another quilt since I have so many going already.

So that left finding something that has already been started.

I knew I don't have enough time to complete anything so I decided on Dear Jane.

I worked on these part of the day Friday and most of the day Saturday.

 

I have one quilt with muslin background and one with white.

A little hindsight and I think I would rather done one with a darker color background.

So sad...So sorry --it's not happening now.

As usual the camera doesn't show the true colors. 

This will put me at 55 squares completed (for each)out of 225.

I'm not even halfway.

If I don't forget about it again I might finish it before I croke.

Dear Jane's cont.

I had almost forgotten about my Dear Jane quilts. It's been so long since I had done any blocks.

At the rate I'm going it will be a few years before I get it all pieced.

If you remember I am working on 2 Dear Jane's ---

one with white background and the other with muslin 

In this picture you can't tell the difference between these 2. 

I'm not crazy about these 2 - they look kinda sloppy to me. 

This is the muslin one - I still need to do the white one.

Maybe I can get back to them in a few weeks.

I've already loaded another quilt and need to get on that.

More Dear Jane

I was cleaning up my sewing room last night and realized I had these Dear Janes's that I had finished. So I figured I would put them on here just to show that I have done a little sewing lately.

I couldn't do much with my hand in that splint so I played with these since it wouldn't matter much if I messed them up.

At the rate I'm going this is going to be a really long project.

Dear Jane

As you know I started these Dear Jane quilts last year. I say these because I thought it would be just as easy to make 2  - and it is. So I have one using off white and civil war type fabrics and the other is white with bright colors. So the ones on the left are the off white and the ones on the right are the white.

Anyway I got back on it yesterday and made these. At the rate I'm going it will take me another 10 years to finish this. So I need to make more of an effort. I would love to finish it this year (I know I'm dreaming)

Dear Jane cont.

I have been so bad - I have forgotten my Dear Jane. So Saturday after a little house cleaning I decided to do a few Dear Janes. Actually I should have been in the yard raking leaves but this sounded like more fun.

And now for more cleaning. I try to rake all the cuts into the trash but as you can see I miss alot. I have little pieces all over the place - even as far as the kitchen. What a slob.

Actually this doesn't look as bad as it could be.

Anyway - I have 5 more Janes' finished. It has been so long since I last worked on them that I can't find my tracking sheet. So I either need to make a new one and spend time marking it up or spend time looking for the old one............. Maybe later.

Dear Jane

I haven't gotten much done lately but I did manage to get 4 more squares finished for my Dear jane, At the rate I'm going I might get it finished by next year.

I am enjoying doing them. It's nice having such a variety and using the different colors and patterns makes it exciting to see what each one will turn out like.

I did have one more finished but when I was pressing them my iron spit on them and it left a stain. I've used a spot remover but the stain is still there. I do have another remover I'm going to try this weekend - hopefully it will work. If it doesn't it won't be that big of a deal to re-do them.

Dresden plates

I put together some more Dresden plates over the weekend. The application I have has 5 different plates and I thought I'd do one of each in one of the 4 colors. So that means I'll need 20 and I have 9 done - another project in the works. Then I'm thinking about putting them together in a honeycomb pattern.

I need to quit playing around and get the Hoffman quilt finished. I've been putting it off and thinking about it so I won't mess it up.

I also did 4 more Dear Jane blocks - I'm in the double digits

Dear Jane blocks

I've been calling these civil war blocks, which they are but they are for my Dear Jane quilts. One will be civil war fabrics and the other is in bright colors.

I have made 3 more blocks and you will notice they are easy ones. I thought I'd try and knock out a bunch of easy ones to get the tally up. I'm really enjoying doing them even tho I have alot of other things started.

The pictures aren't that great - the colors don't show up very well. One day I'll learn how to use my camera