“Insanity” on the bed

For now  the Dear Jane quilt “Insanity” will reside on my bed.   Melanie is going to hang it on a wall after I give it to her so I need to put a hanging sleeve on the back of the quilt still.  I am going to make the sleeve in such a way that a bracket can go in the middle to give the weight of the quilt support as it is heavy.  For now though the quilt is on my bed and it will remain there for about a year for me to enjoy.  I put the Twisted Star quilt that I had on the bed so the back of the quilt which is a purple moda marble is on top, the Insanity is on top of that making the underneath quilt look more like a bed skirt.  At night I will simply fold the quilt and lay it over the tall stool I have in the bedroom in the corner of the room so it is out of the way and then when I make the bed in the morning it will go back over it.  I still need to design a label for the back of the quilt.  I haven’t uploaded the program I use on my new computer but I decided to get a newer version of Print Master Gold anyhow so I will do that soon.  I have Print Master 12 and I think it is up to version 17 or 19 now and have newer ideas for it with internet access.  I’m sure plenty of new clip art also which I use a lot on my labels.

Dear Jane "Insanity" on my bed

My younger daughter-Jessica will be receiving the second Dear Jane “Insanity Revisited” sometime after that one is finished.  I need to sew row 8 on to the blocks and then I will post a new photo of that quilt.  While the grandchildren were here examining the quilts which they love to do asking what will be next I showed Ciera the “Little Brown Bird” quilt and told her that I was thinking of making that one – her words “that one will be mine”. (I told her maybe she would get it when she was 21 – she is 7 now – that should give me plenty of time to make it and enjoy it if I decide to do so).    Utah spent one evening working on a design for a quilt that he wants me to make – he said it would be the quilt to use while watching tv in their basement family room which is a little chilly in the winter.  Designed by Utah and made by Grandma – he specifically said that it had to have scraps of fabric in it from a quilt that I made him last year   He had the big pad of drawing paper out, a square quilting ruler and colored pencils – he did a really good job but was only about a 1/4 of the way done with it when they left for home.  He took the drawing home with him and said he will finish it and send it to me – I don’t know if he will keep his interest but if he sends it back I will see what I can do with it.