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

| 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 […]

QUILTY HAPPENINGS

| July 16, 2008

DEAR JANE So far I have made six blocks for my Dear Jane Quilt…..but when you consider that I am making TWO DEAR JANE QUILTS at once I have made twelve blocks.  The RED AND WHITE Dear Jane represents my PRACTICE blocks.  I make the red and white blocks first before I make the REAL blocks […]

BOXY STARS – QUILT GUILDS – July 1st, 2008

| July 2, 2008

I like it when a new month starts – it is almost as good as New Year’s Day – I get to turn the page on the calendar and start my new monthly TO DO LIST – carefully including all of the things on the list that I have already accomplished TODAY so that I […]

Dear Jane, Beach Retreat, Brownies, Coffee, Tea and Sarah’s First Quilt

| May 18, 2008

What a title for this blog entry…..but I guess I have a lot to share.  I have been having LOTS OF FUN….Saturday, May 17, has been a very good day. DEAR JANE QUILT We had our first DEAR JANE  QUILT SUPPORT GROUP (uhm…I think we are calling it a CLUB) meeting at Quilter’s Corner May […]

Dear Jane Civil War Quilt – Baby Jane – My Newest Endeavor

| April 13, 2008

I was inspired to make a DEAR JANE (Baby Jane) CIVIL WAR QUILT by the quilters on my recent Wakefield, VA retreat.  Some people call our reproduction quilts BABY JANE QUILTS, reserving the title of DEAR JANE for the original quilt made by Jane in 1863.  I have been reading all about young Jane who made […]