Hi!
I don't know if I ever showed this on the blog before. But I started to make a Dear Jane some years ago and never finished. So now I have been thinking about putting the 61 blocks I have together so that it will make a mini-jane.
I just love all my little blocks and it is such a shame to just have them in a box...right? What do you think?
Hugs!
Oh btw..I have added some new photo albums so you can look at some of the blocks!
This is my Dear Jane on my Design wall. I really liked working on it sometimes, but I didn't get anywhere anymore and my latest blocks looked really bad. So since I was so annoyed with it, I wanted to give it a rest for a while. So the blocks came down from the wall:
But not just my annoyance made me take the blocks down..but also...the SBS-quilt showed up on my radar.When I talked with Gerda she told me about the SBS-quilt, and I fell in love. Do you know the feeling when you see a quilt and you just love it..and can't wait to start and can't think of anything else...well that is me at the moment,...
The SBS-quilt is short for Sylvia's Bridal Sampler and is from the Elm Creek Novels from Jennifer Chiaverinni. The blocks are 6 inch finished.
I really like to hand piece, but the latest Dear Jane blocks I made where 4.5 inch and some 45 pieces in one block. This did put me a bit of the hand piecing. So now I am really looking forward to start a project with some bigger pieces... I can't wait..Maybe my Dear Jane blocks will look better when I do some more practicing on bigger blocks a while..*lol*
I am still working on the quilting of the diamonds quilt..who knows...maybe today it will be finished..
Hugs Barbara
Hi!
Since I moved I got a new sewing room as well..My dh build the desk himself so everything fits exactly. I have 1 part where my desk is. I also have an alcove where I have my design wall and my quilting frame.
Here is my quilting frame and design wall. My Dear Jane is on the wall at the moment.
Here are my fabrics on a shelf.
okay...that was the little peek into my room for today...
Barbara
Hi!
We have had a snowstorm this weekend so I have been at home the whole weekend and did just crafty stuff.
On Friday I went into town because I had some quilting books spiral binded. Some quilting books you just use so much and to be able to draw all the patterns you sometimes you need to really "crack" the binding to get into the center. So as a result some of my books were falling apart. But they look great now..
I was reading one of my favorite blogs Supergoof and saw that she was putting pieces of the fabric she used in her Dear Jane in her Dear Jane book. On the Dear Jane software there is an option to print out pages were you can journal and write about each block. I was doing that, but noticed that I always was behind on the journaling and glueing in things because it just was a bit to much work. So when I saw this idea I loved it. Now that I have spiral binded my Dear Jane book that just works great. So yesterday evening I spent some time on glueing the fabric pieces in and writing the journaling from the loose pages I had collected. This is what it looks like now.
I also managed to make some blocks last night and some nights before. The blocks that have crosses in the middle are really hard to get straight but I think I will leave them the way the are.
Last year me and some of my friends had a Crazy Quilt swap. You made your own Crazy Quilt, so you could choose the colors and size, and the others would just decorate it with stitches, beads and so on. I really love what I got back. I have framed to keep it from getting to dusty/dirty since I can't wash it because of all the beads and things...
Yesterday I did some work on 2 bags, so that is what I will finish today hopefully..
Hugs,
Barbara
