Everything about this quilt speaks to me and I will have to break down and make it. It just says old fashioned quilting to me at it's best. I can see what you mean about the shape of that design, bearisgray.

Block I-12

With a little more folding and some more lines drawn in -

The is a close match to the author's drawing - the picture shows it with a muslin frame around it - this may have been one of the smaller blocks mentioned on page 61.

I think I'm going to have fun seeing how many designs I can more or less recreate by folding paper.

Sorry, I don't know how to crop the image to make it less bulky.
I'll have to ask my son who gave me a two minute tutorial on another program - but I only remember that it can be done - not how to do it

Dear Jane L-5 block

This looks like the drawing and the photo

Every single line can be folded in

I was laying awake last night and had to see if it works

Does she start with a 4" block of paper and then fold it to get the different looks/ If so, that is a great thing to know! I can see it in all 3 that you have posted!

I'm using a 4.5 inch piece of paper.

The author of the Dear Jane book has used 4.5 inch blocks for the blocks she drafted.

But the author said on page 61 of the book that when she had the opportunity to examine the quilt that the blocks varied in size from 3 to 5 inches.

But any size square would work.

Are you paper piecing them after the folding? I had read that they were different sizes, and I haven't invested in the book yet.

It never occurred to me to paper-piece.

I'll probably just cut pieces and sew them together - might try a hand-pieced and a machine pieced just to see if I can make them work

I know I can make those three blocks come out okay

I was going through the book and trying to group the different designs - she has some 9 patch ones - I was wondering/thinking if she started with one concept and kept on building on it until she ran out of ideas and then started on something else.

I sea that light bulb going off!! What a great concept, and very possible.
Ok, I will have to but the book, no getting around it. Please up date us on how many more groups you find! And It does look like some of them can be paper pieced, if I only know how!

If anyone is interested in the Dear Jane software, Joanns online is having a sale -

http://www.joann.com/joann/search/se...questid=169298

I'm tired of searching on my own... can somebody just explain this quilt for me? Thanks.

Is a Dear Jane quilt a big sampler of small but different blocks? Are the blocks always the same and arranged the same to be a dear jane? Is it always a big bedsized quilt?