Just today I learned of another quilt in the fashion of Dear Jane that I find very interesting! It is called “Nearly Insane” by Liz Lois http://nearlyinsane.com/shop/ I think this one looks very interesting as well. The cover photo does not show all the blocks I believe it said that there are 98 – 6 inch blocks making up this quilt. I have gotten very addicted to sewing my Insanity over the last 3 years and have actually thought of making another Dear Jane quilt but after looking at this quilt I think maybe there is another challenging quilt out there to make ? we will see.
Dear Jane or as I call it “Insanity” has been 3 full years in the works now — as of yesterday that is. I completed the 3rd border today!! Now I have 13 pieced triangles left to make and I can then put the 4th border together and I will then sew the borders onto the body of the quilt. It is coming along nicely. As of now there are 4,669 pieces in this quilt and I have been working on it for 462 hours!
I have been so busy piecing this last month that I have spent little time quilting. I have finished the quilt top for my granddaughter today. She loves pink so there is a lot of it in it for her quilt. This is a scrap quilt — lots of different fabric in it. I got the idea for this one from a website called http://www.backporchdesign.com/ this designer also sells acrylic templates on her site for the drunkards path pattern and let me tell you they worked out really well! I am so glad I purchased them. Now that I am done piecing the tops for the grandchildren they will be put aside for several weeks until I get my batting. I like the batting called Quilters Dream and I will get that in two weeks when I go shopping in Little Rock and stop at the quilting store there called Blossom Quiltworks, http://www.blossomquiltworks.com/ the backing for these two tops I am getting from a shop locally called the Calico Ladies Fabric Shoppe and Art Doll Studio http://www.paulasdollhouse.net/ she carries the wide fabric making it unnecessary to piece your back together. Both of these quilt tops will be hand quilted like I always do. I will be very busy quilting this year as I have the large Mariner’s Compass on the big quilting frame and my smaller hoop will be kept occupied with these smaller twin size quilts. Dear Jane (Insanity) is coming along nicely and I have one triangle left to piece of the bottom border and then that border is ready to piece leaving — a drum roll please !!!!! one more border to go which has of course 13 more pieced triangles to do. I will finish that top this year — the end is finally in sight 
Here is a picture of Ciera’s quilt top (some of the light colors in the photo came across lighter than they actually are but you can get a good idea of what it looks like):
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Wow I tell you we had a lot of small branches knocked down from the last 2 storms, you really don’t notice it that much until you get outside and start picking them. Yesterday I got some exercise pushing the wheelbarrow around only one section of the “yard” (almost 4 acres) I filled it to overflowing two times, and then picked up a dead tree that had broken into 3 pieces (a skinny one) dragged that to the area where it will all be burned. There are many more branches and then of course we haven’t even started to clean up the downed trees from 2 weeks ago – they fell into the woods so they can stay there for sometime to come for all I care. They are not in my way. I will try to pick up more branches in the upcoming weeks and get the yard cleaned up somewhat. We have daffoldils coming out of the ground — some have buds on them. Early spring? I heard the groundhogs – one from Pennsylvania, one from Georgia and one from Wisconsin disagreed on how early that will come it was 2 to 1 (2 for early – I will agree with that one). We always have some early daffodils — it is not uncommon to have daffodils flowering with snow on the ground around here. Usually they flower and then we have a late February snow fall, looks pretty for a day or two and doesn’t ruin the flowers. I have so many varieties of these flowers that I will have them flowering for two months in the spring. I planted some new bulbs this year and of course have forgotten what I have now and anxiously awaiting spring to see what comes up.
This one is for my grandson Utah it is made from the leftovers of the Mariner’s Compass. It still needs to be quilted of course and I will get to that part soon. I am making quilts for both of the grandchildren for Xmas 2008, I just got started on Ciera’s top tonight — it also will be a drunkards path pattern but with lots of pinks scattered throughout and mixed with all sorts of scraps.
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We came very close to being hit by a tornado yesterday. Atkins AR was hit very badly, it is 15 miles (est.) to the east of us. Here we had rain and wind but nothing special – then we heard the sirens going off for tornado warnings and could see on the news that it wasn’t for us but east of us. Our power went out and we put the generator back to work and got the tv hooked up so we could keep track of the storms. All day off and on the news has been on showing the destruction which was very bad. 4 people died in that town and more in other towns to the north east of the state. That was a little too close for comfort. Here is a link to a photo slide of storm damage across the south from Arkansas to I’m not sure where all. In the beginning of the slide show are photo’s from Arkansas, if you read the labels you will see the utter destruction in the area. http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Deadly-tornadoes-strike-South-Cyerice-Martin-right-comforts-sister-Seavia-Dixon-left-Wednesday-Feb/ss/events/us/020608southtornadoes/s:/ap/20080206/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather
we were lucky our power was only out for 3 hours — I say only because last week when a cold front came rushing through our state we had a very bad wind storm and were out of power for 32 hours!
Continue reading about Another storm system (February 5th 2008)
