I mentioned the other day I thought it was better to take along too many projects to work on in case I actually ran out of things to do 
I know silly me – but I hate to run out of sewing for in the evening. I finished cutting all the fabric needed for the blocks in the Bow Tie Medallion quilt and have it all stacked up in one of my scrap boxes with the thread and it will be handy for if I get to it.
All the blocks needed to finish the queen size - this fabric does not count the fabric for the border which I am leaving at home. Doesn't look like enough but I do have some of the blocks finished and I'm leaving those at home.
this is the amount of fabric that I had left over - couldn't believe I still had so much of this free fabric left over. I might have enough to sew strips together to do a binding with it or to use in the border some way. All of these fabrics are about the same width as the blue with the white dots.
Here is the photo of the fabric that I won that is making this quilt. I believe it was something like 15 fat quarters and 20 or 30 5 x 44 inch strips -- a lot but I didn't realize it would make a queen size quilt with a background fabric added.
My friend Julie who started her Dear Jane quilt 2 years ago when I started my second DJ has finished all the blocks and they are sewed together now. She is moving on to the corners and then the triangles. I ran over to her house today to take a photo before I went to get my hair cut – here is her quilt:
Julie tried hand piecing but decided it wasn't a good fit for her so she went on to machine piecing after the first 4 rows I believe. We finished our tops (blocks only) within 30 minutes of each other oddly enough - she called me a couple weeks ago to tell me she had just sewed the 12th row to the 13th row as I was taking my last stitching on the same thing - weird coincidence.
My other friend Regina is still working on her blocks – she is working on I don’t know how many projects at the same time and is hand piecing her blocks. She is nearing the end of row 5.
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I always took more than I could finish on my trips too. I think you like variety as much as I do too so it is always fun to have lots of different kinds of projects.
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I love it when my fabric goes further than I thought it would. Julie’s Dear Jane Quilt is beautiful. Hopefully you can show another pic after it is quilted.
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I would hate to run out of projects while on vacation too. It will be fun to see how much you get done….but you will be gone for a long time. Julie’s quilt is wonderful!!
Crispy
I always like to take handwork with me when I’m going to be away from home too.
Of course, I also like doing handwork at home too….
Your friend’s DJ is totally awesome! Thanks for sharing it.
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I’m with you, take extra just in case! You never know when you might end up spending a day in the camper due to bad weather, exhaustion (LOL), whatever. Nice to have it just in case!
Julie’s DJ quilt is just lovely, thanks for sharing!
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