Has anyone here done a Dear Jane quilt?
I'm apparently in the process of being bitten by the bug ... Any words of advice from anybody?
I remember Tutu talking about doing hers a few years back (Tutu? Are you still on rctq?). Just saw pictures of the two she did, and wow, they're spectacular ...
Did any of you survive the experience?
Karen Johnson snipped-for-privacy@dabukar.com
Hullo Karen I haven't *done*! I am *doing* I am doing a modified one - tailored to suit the size I have available, so I'm only doing 100 blocks and no triangles. Getting back to it is one of the things I have promised myself in this my 'no deadlines' year. I am not using traditional fabrics. . In article , Karen Johnson writes
-- Best Regards pat on the hill
Patti,
Yeah, I can see why all the DJ web sites I've stumbled on to talk about "the journey" of doing a DJ ... This may be a bigger commitment than marriage, or entering a Ph.D. program!
Are you using a particular type of fabric? Or a particular color theme? I don't want to use traditional fabrics, either. (I love a good repro-fabric quilt when I see one, but I think I wouldn't want to stare at repro fabrics for the duration of making this quilt!) Can't quite decide what approach to take.
Good idea on the "no deadlines" ... I can see where this quilt will pick its own gestation period!
Karen Johnson snipped-for-privacy@dabukar.com
Karen, I hand pieced my DJ, (all right, there are 5 machine pieced triangles....) and took about 2 1/2 years to do it. It has been basted and ready to quilt for several months. Someday I will get the machine stabilizing stitching done. Hopefully soon. Then I plan to do the scalloped edge and binding then hand quilt in the blocks and tris. I may finish it in the next couple of years. But I know some that have done it in just a year or less......... Depends on you and your goals with it.
I also never really intended to do the whole thing. It becomes addictive.
Pati, >Patti,
Pati,
I can fully understand why someone would want to do this by hand -- but not me! I've hand-pieced and hand-quilted two queen-sized quilts now. Hand-piecing no longer holds any charms for me. (I'm sure there's a pun in there somewhere :-).)
No goals, no deadlines on this one ... just a lot of curiosity to see what the next block will look like.
Karen Johnson snipped-for-privacy@dabukar.com
Hand piecing no longer grabs me?
ducking and running....
Cappy
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