Yes, Milleroch... great ideas on the teaching methods...same goes with their art work..."Tell me about your picture."

As cute as the fabric is, there is a gray line between the generations who "knew" Dick and Jane and the recent generations who learned with Sesame Street, Electric Co., "Big Books", and without phonics, etc.

Some will have NO idea who D&J are. I think the nostalgic fabric is for a specific generation... many who are now on Medicare!

Of course there was nothing wrong with D&J unless you figure in the stereotypical figures and jobs, etc. It was a slice of life (not all lives) of the times. That reading "method" and many, many great teachers, taught millions of kids to read.

Okay... I'm off my soapbox... back to the sewing machine...

It doesn't make any difference about the "time zone." The method works with any pictures. A lot has to do with time spent w/a loving adult, verbal exchanges, language development, etc. etc.. Time spent with an adult is the most powerful incentive in the world and has the highest impact on learning to read.

I love this bow tuck bag. Dick and jane' I never would have thought of using that, but I love it! I think I will have to finally get this pattern.

I have this fabric too. My plan is to alternate a story book page with a pinwheel block (9 inch blocks). I don't know about sashing yet as it's still in the planning stage. And I'm planning to make a piano keyboard border. I'm slow & a new quilter.....so who knows???

I have found some Dick and Jane fabric at JandOFabric.com and at KeepsakeQuilting.com.

I made an apron for myself and my sister. They hang proudly in our kitchens.

Wow, the back of that is amazing!

Aw, my Mom would love that fabric!

would make a great quilt

?cute pinwheels

I have several pieces of Dick and Jane fabric, as well. I think I was originally going to make a wall-hanging for my kdg classroom but never have. Last summer I decided to make a bow-tucks bag with it. I will get around to it one of these days.

I learned to read with Dick and Jane. No, kids today would have no idea who they were/are. But, to be very honest, looking at the materials I am given to teach reading with to my students...there is alot of 'crap' out there.

I can imagine. I just left an elementary teaching career last year.

I would do a large wall quilt. The whole collection is too precious to want to have to continually wash it due to using on a bed. Send us pics when you complet it.

I have wondered the same thing about the fabric so I didn't get
any but it is cute and like you that is what I learned to read on.

Quiltmaker Magazine had a cute pattern about 4 years ago.

I think it would make a fun Kindle cover or library bag.

Don't know what I would make, but I would sure like to see what you end up doing. I teach phonics and reading to kinder - second grade. Dick and Jane books are some of their favorites. They love to hear how people really dressed and looked like that when I was a little girl!

My daughter has made a couple of totes from the Dick and Jane fabrics, her own designs, and each one is different. She gave one of them to me, the other to my sister. They are just precious, and bring back lots of precious memories.

I saw some Dick and Jane at one or two for the shops in the fab shop hop, don't know how much difference in price & shipping it is from Ebay

What's the fab shop hop? I've never heard of it.

Saw a posting on the board here last month. It is an online shop hop, you visit the online shops, find the bunny logo, click on it, and some people win prizes. That's how I heard about it- some of the peeps here won some fabric. Here is the link that explains it and has the registration for it.

http://fabshophop.com/

Here is what I made a few years ago with those fabrics. I love Dick and Jane.

I love Dick and Jane. I made two. The first I bought a kit and made for my little niece, and the second I just duplicated the first. It was a purchase request from another family member.
The pic is of the second one (pattern was mostly from the kit).

I had those books in the first grade. I guess I already knew how to read, because while the kids took turns reading a page aloud, I was reading ahead in the back of the book. When it was my turn to read aloud, I never knew what page I was supposed to be reading! lol

Wow, that brings back memories! I don't think I would want to cut into any of them.

Great pics!

Wow, that is nice!

Beautiful quilt!

Thanks for the great pictures, everyone!

From a Thimbleberries book, there is a pattern called 'Hopscotch' I actually made a Dick and Jane quilt from this pattern, sbsolutely love it-
Looks like you are so very close to be able to do a Turning 20 quilt also, which would showcase each print.

Why would they need to know who Dick and Jane are? The object of reading is to learn new things!

I also have a stash, and have a quilt magazine with a pattern for the fabric. I will look it up and let you know the magazine.

Thanks, quiltersew!

I love the Dick & Jane fabric. I have been collecting all the Wizard of Oz fabric that I can find. Haven't decided what pattern to use with it yet. I also have the embroidery disc of it also. I know that I will use both together. I have done an attic window with the Sock Monkey fabric & just finnish my 2nd. tote bag with the I Love Lucy fabric. I would show a pic, but haven't figured how to do that yet.

I still haven't had the nerve to cut into the fabrics and do a big project, but I did just finish some magnets. Someday I'll get into a quilt, but the fabrics are just too darn pretty to use!