On Friday even with a box of Kleenex not far from my side I managed to finish one more Dear Jane block. “Insanity Revisited” is coming along nicely. I post photo’s now and then of my Dear Jane blocks as I make them. These blocks are hand pieced and not always perfect – some far from but I enjoy it none the less. I wonder if some of you have never heard of Dear Jane and know what a Dear Jane quilt is? This quilt was designed and made by Jane Stickle in Vermont in 1863. I believe it was in the early 1990’s that Brenda Papadakis began drafting the individual blocks and triangles that the quilt is made up of and published them in a book called “Dear Jane”. Since then quilters from around the world have been making “Dear Jane” quilts. Some of us hand piece & some machine piece these tiny blocks – finished size is 4 1/2 inches – some have as few as 5 pieces in it and some close to 40-50 pieces! There are 169 blocks in the quilt and it has a border consisting of 52 pieced triangles and 56 plain triangles – 4 pieced corners shaped something like kites top it off. If you count your pieces while you are making it you will end up with more than 5,000 tiny pieces in the quilt. I started my first Dear Jane top almost 4 years ago and named it “Insanity” – hopefully it will be on my quilting frame in another month or two. I actually missed hand piecing that quilt so much when I finished it that within a month or two I started to hand piece my second one that I call “Insanity Revisited”.
My Friday morning quilting group is missing a person. Right after Christmas one of our members moved to another state – our founding member!! We miss you Renate and wish you & Bill well in your new home in Georgia. My Friday morning group is a very informal group – a fun group of women who visit and quilt and piece and talk the whole time we are there. We vary in age but the one thing we all have in common is our love of quilting. We work on whatever we feel like working on – bringing our supplies from home. We show off our quilts, we share knowledge and friendship. Here is the block that I started this morning and finished this evening. It is E-9 Quilter’s Jail.
Yesterday’s question was “What characterizes a “summer spread?”
A quilt with no batting is the answer. Here is a link to some quilting terms. This page is connected to the State Museum of Pennsylvania of which there is a quilting exhibit. I have never been there. I have been to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where it is located but did not know it was there so I missed it – maybe I will catch it another time.
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Question # 14:
What do the following have in common: Baby Block, Thousand Pyramids, Trip around the World?
A- Children’s toys/games
B- Patterns of Asian origin
C-One-patch patchwork patterns
Continue reading about Jane Stickle – Dear Jane – whatever you call it—-
