Dear Jane – Turkey Tracks – OC – and LOST NO MORE

Posted By on July 17, 2008

Dear Jane Quilt (Progress Report)

I am really having fun making these Dear Jane blocks and I love the names that have been given to them.  Here is my A8  Florence Nightingale

– one more done and 50,000 more to go.  🙂  Not really, it just seems like it!

First – my red and white A8 practice block –

PRACTICE A8 Florence Nightingale

and then the real block….LOL

A8 Florence Nightingale

This isn’t a great picture – but it is of my FIRST BORDER TRIANGLE BLOCK – BR1 Rosemary’s Window  (the red and white is the practice block.)  I think paper piecing is a lot of fun!

BR1 Rosemary\'s Window  BR1 Rosemary\'s Window - FIRST TRIANGLE BORDER BLOCK

I have learned to scan my blocks and put them into the EQ Dear Jane Project Chart – too much fun!  I now have 8 blocks finished (times 2 so that makes a total of 16 Dear Jane blocks!)

EGG MONEY QUILT

The first EGG MONEY QUILT (Eleanor Burns) class is the 20th (taught by Susan at QUILTER’S CORNER.)  I am really looking forward to it: however, I just realized that I am going to miss the SECOND CLASS because I will be in CALIFORNIA.  So today I went ahead and made block # 3 – TURKEY TRACKS that will be part of the 2nd class.  I love these 30’s fabrics…….and this was a new experience to make Y seams!  I am so happy that I got this made….it wasn’t that difficult…..and my little points all seemed to come together as planned in the middle! 

Egg Money Block 3 Turkey Tracks

ORANGE CRUSH MYSTERY QUILT QUILTED

I picked up my Bonnie Hunter Orange Crush Mystery Quilt from my long arm quilter, Sara Parrish, today!  I love it.  She did a fabulous job and I took her picture – but her eyes were closed – so I am not going to put her picture up here.   Here is my OC on the rack just waiting for me to pick it up!

THE OC ON THE RACK AT SARA PARRISH\'S QUILTING COTTAGE

OC TOP QUILTED

HERE IS THE BACK OF THE OC – it is ready for the orange binding!  I really am starting to like this scrappy back!

OC Back Ready for the Binding

GPS TECHNOLOGY

For years I have been getting lost and for years I have been calling my daughter to FIND ME while I am lost.  NOT ANYMORE.  I got a GPS – a GARMIN NUVI and oh is this ever fun.  I can watch myself driving along the road on the little screen – just like a video game.  When I stop – the little car on the screen stops.  It is just amazing.  When I make a mistake it recalculates and tells me how to get myself out of my “STATE OF LOSTNESS.”  I LOVE IT.  I really do.  It is pretty amazing that his little screen can TALK TO YOU and tell you you have .2 more miles to your next turn, etc.   I will never be lost again…..hopefully!  :):) 

THE GPS IS NOW ON MY LIST OF FAVORITE THINGS!

GPS GAMIN NUVI

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