I have gotten so many e mails and comments on my quilt – I have tried to answer them all but I feel I most likely have missed some. Thanks to all of you for the comments. It is very encouraging to quilters to hear praise from other quilters – especially when I know some of you do this as a job and are quilt instructors and designers. Making the entire Dear Jane by hand takes a lot of time and patience so if you are making one just remember Jane Stickle did not make her quilt in a hurry – she took the entire Civil War period to make it — hang in there and one day you will have a finished quilt. Jane’s quilt was not perfect – she has plenty of crooked pieces and so do I – not all my points meet and neither did hers 
but as we all say – “it is finished” and that is what counts the most LOL. I did not aim for perfection – I wanted the challenge and boy did I get it!
this corner piece had the most pieces in it - 74 total.
this is the corner piece that Jane Stickle on her original quilt signed and indicated how many pieces were in the total quilt. I will be making a label for the back of my quilt over the next week or so and get my label on the back like I normally do.
These pictures show the quilting a little bit better then the photo from yesterday. These photos also show how the batting shrinks up when you use 100% cotton batting. By washing and drying a quilt in the dryer using cotton batting your quilt will take on the appearance of a antique quilt. I very much wanted that look for this quilt although it is the same batting I use for almost all of my quilts – I just love the “old” look that it gives.
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