I hope all of you out there in “blogland” have a happy new year and continue to post in the new year. I have enjoyed reading so many blogs out there, I don’t have them all included in my side bar. One day I need to update that list. We normally stay home on New Years Eve and just have our normal routine plus maybe stay up late to watch the ball drop on Times Square on the tv. If I stay up late I will get more sewing done while the tv is on.
Yesterday I finished a Dear Jane block for the “Insanity Revisited” quilt. I haven’t mentioned it much lately I know but I am trying to not forget it and keep doing a block or two a week (sometimes). The latest:
This is block 8 from Row 9. I am in the process of cutting out pieces for the next block - all 41 pieces of it! Some of these are tiny pieces. I save a lot of the scraps from these fabrics as I am cutting if they are bigger than an inch squre they are normally saved. Well for block 10 almost half of the pieces were cut from those tiny scraps!
Several have asked what size quilt the scrappy quilt will be that I am making circles and 4 patches for. Right now I intend to make it a queen size. The blocks are 3 1/2 inch so I need a lot of them. I don’t have the figures in front of me but I think I need 315 of circles and 315 4 patches. I haven’t figured the size of the border so it might turn out that when I get the amount of patches done that I stated ( and circles) that I will need to make more, but right now I think that is the correct number.
Again Happy New Year and thanks for stopping by.
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Happy New Year to you, too, Karen! I know exactly what you mean about those small pieces in the DJ quilt. Your blocks always look great!
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Happy New Year to you too!!! I’m looking forward to the new year and seeing all of the new blocks for your “Insanity Revisited” as well as your other projects. I hope you don’t get the cold blast we are getting later today.
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Happy New Year, Karen!
(Yup, sewing while the TV’s on here too)
Maggie
I am not so good with the real tiny pieces that you can not even pick up. I have changed some of mine to applique pieces. I feel like I should not change some, but I cannot help it. I wonder if others tweak their dear jane blocks to. I saw on the news this morn that it was snowing in new york, it looked so pretty HAPPY NEW YEAR to Karen and all her blog friends.
Another lovely block and 630 blocks is A LOT!!!! LOL that made it sound even more than 315 of one and 315 of the other.
You have a wonderful New Year too :0)
Crispy
Happy New Year Karen!!
I’m looking forward to watching your scrappy quilt come together.
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Querida amiga Karen, espero que tengas un año estupendo , que Dios te bendiga mucho en este año 2010, mis mejores deseos para ti y tu familia….deseo que te vaya muy bien en todos los aspectos de tu vida.
Con mucho cariño, recibe un gran abrazo de tu amiga chilena.
¡¡¡¡¡ Happy New Year !!!!
Besos
Odette
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thank you all for the best wishes for the New Year – I hope life will be well for all of you around the world. It is so nice blogging to hear from people all over the world, today alone I received happy New Year wishes from Russia, Chile, Australia,Canada, Norway, Israel and of course numerous areas of the good old USA. I hope all of you have a great new year. Karen
Thanks, Karen for wishing us a great new year. I hope that you and yours have a great new year, too. Hope to gets lots of quilting done in 2010. Joyce.
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