Within A Quarter Inch: Dear Jane

A Dear Jane Block

Don't count me out of the Dear Jane Quilt just yet - I did this block WEEKS ago, and just forgot to post it...

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Alive and kicking and still fighting the war...

Spent the last 5 days in Athens, Oh, our new 'home town'. It's so beautiful and friendly - can't wait to go:) We put an offer on a house!

Still going back and forth with the details, but it's looking good!

And yes, I will have a sewing room - but it will have to be in the basement (which is fine by me) and it will need to be 'designed' - boo hoo (not!)

And I have been working on some blocks, I think.

I HAVE made some CW blocks, but have yet to take the pictures, whoops!

AND you just have to check out this fabric, prairie paisley... I'm in love!

PODCAST THIS WEEKEND, I PROMISE!!

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Dear Jane, I've been through a War

Here are some shots of my latest efforts with regards to the Dear Jane and The Civil War Quilts. Civil War First!

And the Dear Jane Blocks:

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Shownotes for Episode 13

Well well well - wonders do exist - posting the shownotes on the SAME day as I posted the episode?! Impressing myself over here...

The fabric boxes that I use are sold by the gross - at firstchoicepackaging.com

The Dear Baby Jane blog that is a great gathering of woman (are there any men?) working together to keep motivated and create this mega quilt! Here are the two squares I have done:
A2 is the gold and awesome background fabric (Same as seen here but in brown)

A1 is the green and background fabric - after I made that one I decided that my blocks would be 5" finished (easier to keep it straight in my head) so I added a border to it. I do that A LOT - because I never really seem to get to the right size!

Blog of the pod:

That Silly Lil Doe - She has a great sense of humor that really comes through in her postings AND she is one crafty lady - my kind of combination!

Tip off the old podcast: (really, if anyone has a better working title for this bit of the episodes, I'm all ears!)

This is really last weeks Tip - creating your own one of these - with a little cup, fabric scraps and a seam ripper you have a great tool for cutting apart any chain piecing you do - try it, it really works well!

This week's tip is to use your pins diagonally rather than horizontally - this way, it is much easier to remove the pins when sewing AND you have less pin distortion on the fabrics as well - it is not my original idea but for the life of me, I don't remember where I heard about this... If you know, let me know so that I can give proper credit:)