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Anael!!! I don't know why I didn't recognize my Nederlandse buddy :) Where have you been??
I got an message back from Patrice regarding starting a new thread. She would really like to close this one when we start another DJ thread so that people are not posting to both and that gets pretty confusing. I am not sure if I can be completely finished by January....that would be pushing it, but February - definitely. carriem was the first to mention a new thread for 2014 - I started this one because the one that was going in 2011 was fizzling much like this is now! It doesn't really matter "who" starts one but the details need to be cleared with Patrice. If it is alright with you to let me get through the remaining blocks so I can finish a "reference chart" to this thread before we close it completely and start another. Any of you can start it, or I can get it going and you can take it over.... my toes are fine!! This has always been a group effort :) a great group it is too!!! I will check back - happy holidays :) Monica aka Gus by the way here's my "good, bad, and ugly" quilt top for my guild ....I won a $20 gift cert to my wonderful LQS - "Cotton and Chocolate" in Thousand Oaks!!! our guild activity chair takes a random bunch of fabric from a pile of donated fabrics totaling 2yd and puts it into brown bags which we take and have two months to put together a top using those fabrics only. [ATTACH=CONFIG]450499[/ATTACH] |
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OK so feeling guilty .... I decided to trim and take a photo of M6 which I confess I actually made a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving but never posted....ahem
I made it strictly using the sketch in Brenda's book, which is different from the original Jane - if you want to be exactly like Jane, you must make the center section [which I pieced by hand because I felt it would be much more precise and easier than all those Y-seams by machine!! so small]. If you look at Jane's, you will note she then put a background border around the center - a'la log cabin style. Last border doesn't consist of corner squares at all. Look carefully at the picture - Jane fashioned this log cabin style as well, beginning at the left side on page 116, making the background sections the same width/length as the inner border and centering the print fabric in between. Then she went on to the bottom strip, background ends even with the border, print strip, background ends even with next section of inner border, continuing around the right side and top. After nearly two years, I'm not sticking to Jane all the time!! oh well... so here it is! Gus [ATTACH=CONFIG]450562[/ATTACH] |
Hi Monica :)
I was still here but not working on DJ. Lots have happened this year. My DS and DDIL had twins in January, 14 weeks early and they were in hospital for 4 months. I got sick beginning of September and just now starting to recover so I had other things on my mind. I'm determined to go back to DJ and finish this time. It's OK with me when you start the new thread and one of us takes over once you're done! I like your M6, it's very well done! |
Dank U wel, Anael! I remember the twins' birth - zien er gesond uit [lookin' healthy!] not sure I spell it right, I never had a Dutch education as I moved to the U.S. when I was 4. I love the motos you have in your signature block :)
I will pop in a few times weekly before Christmas - hopefully will get another block done this week. Monica |
Originally Posted by Cre8tvlwyr
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...Here is my suggestion - The 'attack plan' I made up on the first post seemed to be working for most. I had started, but not completed, a list of post numbers that had tutorials for various techniques and specific blocks for Jane. When I get that list completed by the end of the year it may be a good idea to start a new thread and include in the first post the schedule and the list that refers to post #s on this thread. At this point I have 8 squares, two corner kites, and 11 triangles remaining before I can piece my top together and call that part of my Jane journey done. As much as I would love to I don't think I can get this finished before 2014 realistically. Therefore, I will complete my DJ on this thread along with a second "tute sheet" that can be added to the new thread. I know that moderators have the ability to add a list to an initial post later. How does this sound?? I will cut and paste this post in a PM to Patrice and find out any other details/possibilities. I know you need permission to begin a thread - I will ask her this as well. I could start it - or perhaps Anael would like to?? I could pop in from time to time, but will not promise to keep it going as I already have too many irons in the fire.
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If we worked backwards from the original schedule it would work for me. I really have to be realistic, however, and I don't know when I'll actually work on my blocks. :( I will follow along a thread, whether I've made blocks or not, though.
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I enrolled with www.quiltingonthesquare.com because I love their Spike your English free blocks that Mary has worked out so well. Looking forward to their 'tips' on the Dear Jane journey.
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I like the reverse order idea. It would allow all of us to start as a group. The oldies will be doing the blocks they have not completed yet and the newbies will keep going as the "oldies" start assembling the top.
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The reverse idea is ok with me too.
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I can go ahead and make a "reverse schedule" or start with the last couple of months and tack that to the beginning.
The one concern I have is for newbies if we simply go in reverse. The reason I say this is because I had taken many suggestions from the former DJ group when making up the first schedule. Meaning, it is very "beginner block heavy" during the first 6 weeks. The end of the schedule is 'advanced heavy.' Those of us who started in Jan '11 have 'fizzled' at different stages. Some of the suggestions I received was to make a schedule that allowed 'Janiacs' to sew rows together as they advanced through the schedule thinking we would be more likely to complete our 'journey' ....of course people like myself weren't sewing them together anyway because I for one think I will change the position of some of the blocks to balance the colors I chose to complete them. Some haven't decided whether to machine or hand quilt. I know some of my non-QB members near home are working the entire Jane by hand and in "around the world" fashion - starting in the center and making rows on point as they continue and immediately attaching them. I think the main disadvantage to working it in reverse is the difficulty level though. What if I combine these suggestions? thinking as I type..... no good.... I dont know where everyone is?? I have blocks L2, 9, 10 and M1, 4, 8, 9, and 11 remaining and 13 tris scattered in the last three months. It would be too hard to combine first of the A blocks with the M blocks?? counterintuitive?? thoughts?? M |
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