My Dear Jane Fabric Collection
08-03-2009, 11:21 PM
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Wow what great fabrics both of you! I'm doing a DJ with my guild and there are around 20 of us working on it. We've just about done all the centre blocks and are starting on the border blocks when we go back in September - I don't know if I would be brave enough to do one on my own but I'll certainly be watching! :D Maybe I'll join in and do a Baby Jane? Would that be OK? Oh well, it's ages til January, we'll see...! :D
08-03-2009, 11:25 PM
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Hi K3N - did you see the gals were talking about doing a swap around xmas time - that might be fun and involve less work that a full DJ. Also, you could do whatever you wanted in the "quilt-along" (is there another name for that type of group quilting?) - just do the blocks we are doing that particular week to put into whatever you decide to go with. The DJ book has photos of some beautiful DJ's that only have a limited number of blocks in them, and they are stunning!! It sure would be nice to have you along for the project!! I plan to work on other things at the same time, and will consider the DJ my slow, lifetime project. I may even put some thought into hand quilting it, slowly....
08-03-2009, 11:53 PM
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Thanks esq - I'll definitely be in it one way or another! Can't bear to miss out on things! But some of those DJ blocks are teeny tiny! At my group, the organiser put the blocks in 3 folders, easy, intermediate and hard. I left the hard ones to the old pros we have there - all those French ladies with their teeny tiny stitches like you wouldn't believe! They foundation pieced by hand, I wish I had pics to show, the work was amazing!
The Christmas runner idea sounds fun so I 'spect I'll be in on that and maybe do a BJ with you all next year... :D
The Christmas runner idea sounds fun so I 'spect I'll be in on that and maybe do a BJ with you all next year... :D
08-04-2009, 04:28 AM
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Originally Posted by kluedesigns
here's a link to the original DJ
http://www.dearjane.com/
http://www.dearjane.com/
I just went to this site, and Jane is an intriguing person, indeed, and I am not quite sure why.
I think perhaps it's not so much her outer self or life, as much as, for me, she reaches some inner place, that love of quilts and intricate things, and the reasoning behind choices.
thanks for the link, klue. I will be going back to it, and thanks to, you, Esqmommy for starting this thread.
I think our school history books were written very boringly, bc I am finding some of these old time quilters, fascinating :D
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