“Insanity Revisited” Dear Jane

I finished sewing the 10th row onto the body of the quilt and it is looking good I think!   There are over 2,000 pieces in it at this point and around 250 hours of hand piecing I think – I have it written down. This second Dear Jane is actually being done faster than the first one was – I checked in my journal to see how long it had taken me on the first one at the end of 10 rows and it was about 50 hours longer — guess I am used to dealing with this bitty pieces.

Me with 10 rows of Dear Jane, "Insanity Revisited"

I think I mentioned to you all that I am a scrap quilter, well even though I have plenty of  fabric for this quilt I can’t stop myself from saving my scraps.  You see from the photo that some of the pieces are smaller than a quarter! I tend to save scraps and use them up for the tiny pieces as you will see from these photos.

Some of the pieces in this quilt are more the size of a dime than a quarter - but a quarter was what was handy.

a pile of scraps leftover that I couldn't use for this 1st block on row 11 - they were not needed or too small

the scraps I did use plus a larger piece that was already cut and left over from previous blocks.

So as you can see if you save small pieces from your leftovers when you are making Dear Jane it is very likely that you can use them up, especially if you are doing a two color Dear Jane like this one is.

It was a wonderful day outside today – it got up to a big 68 degrees!!!  I hadn’t planned on doing a garden this summer because we will be gone for part of it but then I thought well maybe a little bit that could be ready by the end of June?  Mike tilled up a small piece of land for me down by the wood pile that is in the sun all the time.  I need to rake it out a little this week and get it ready.  Right now I have some seeds for carrots, beets, and sweet peas.  I might get some leaf lettuce and radishes too.  Maybe a tomato plant if it is really big and has blossoms on it already – not sure on that.  We might be getting some rain this week, so my gardening plans might have to wait until next week if it gets muddy.