Ok, so it took me almost a month to get these scanned and added to the blog, but believe me, I've been busy! I did one extra block for mum's quilt (the first in two years!) and 3 new blocks for m...
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And I'm reviving my old Jane Blog. I've recently rejoined the DJ mailing list after being away for over a year, now that I've picked up mum's Jane again. I still have two years left until she's ...
F-4 Old Windmill I loved this block! It looks so pretty (maybe because I'm still falling in love with that purple?) and it sits so damn flat! (Trust me, it's been a rare thing for some of my...
F-3 Snowball Ok, I don't really know what to say about this one. I've never made snowballs before and I think I got lucky with how I pieced it together. I used the corner triangles (which tu...
Block Storage This little plastic case was holding several pairs of panties that I bought a while ago. I figured that seeing as the width was perfect, I'd store my blocks here. It's getting ...
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The first 25. This is just a photo I took to immortalise the 25 blocks I finished first. It's a bit of a wonky photo as it was taken by me standing on my bed. They were in order, but the pho...
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B-1 Bachelor's Buttons My second needleturn applique piece turned out better than the first, which was good. I kinda cheated as it wasn't solely needleturn- I wrapped the fabric around a cir...
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A-3 Hunter's Moon Now this... I can't even think of words to describe this. The stitches (done in the wrong colour, mind you! They were meant to match the top applique piece, not the backgrou...
A-2 One - Two Buckle My Shoe Revised I'm not sure if I see a massive improvement between the first attempt at this block (see an earlier post) and the second attempt. I know this time that my...
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J-2 Picture Perfect I made Silver! That means I've hit my first milestone, 25 blocks! Now when I hit 50 I become Gold... It wasn't until I looked at my bingo board that I realised I have two...
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K-13 Brandon's Star This is one of my favourite blocks, just because it looks so nice. And it has a 9-patch too. It went together quickly and easily, which I love. It wasn't until after the ...
H-13 Farm Fields This block was my first H block. It was fairly easy to sew and press. But I did have to pin this one because the lines didn't match up at first. It was easy and fast to unpic...
M-5 Mother's Point I feel cheeky updating this now... Mum's just in the other room and I'm talking to her as I'm typing this while she's playing a video game. She's so cute. This block was a...
K-3 Seven Sisters This was another 9-patch. See it in the middle? I thought, "Oh, straight lines, this can't be hard" but I totally forgot about how damn small the pieces are! This, as a resu...
I-2 Kaye's Courtyard See how nice 9-patches are? I found another one, which luckily was quite large. And I think it looks really good with how it's set out on-point with the triangles. This b...
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I-3 Family Album All I can say about this block is LOL. And I don't care. This looks like a family album made by kindy kids. The lines aren't straight, the block never pressed flat because my...
I-1 Ralph & Nelda's Wedding After looking through the book for more 'easy' blocks, I discovered there were more 9-patches than I'd originally noticed. These were easy to cut out and sew, so t...
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J-7 Chicken Tracks Now this one I chose because the cutting plan was easy. No fussy 5/8ths or anything like that. Only pure inch squares. As I should have learnt from J-6, small pieces means ...
J-6 Granny Weaver This one I chose because it looked quick and easy, straight seams, with no triangles. Well, it was easy to sew. What wasn't easy was the pressing. It looked like it wasn't g...
M-2 Duff's Bluff This one was slightly hard, but only because I haven't yet figured out an easy way to do the x shaped middle part, which sucks because there's quite a few of those in the DJ ...
M-12 Hopscotch I'm so far behind in my DJ! Last month I only completed one, this month I've just completed two blocks. So much for my 2-per-week goals. =/ I've been home alone all week too, s...
G-2 Mohawk's Trail This was the first time I tried pinning my triangles before sewing them. Needless to say I loved the results because the block actually came out the right size! I'm relativ...
A-2 One - Two Buckle My Shoe Now this... was a piece of work. LOL It frustrated me from the start. I got better at my Geese, but I think I rushed it a bit and wasn't careful with my seams, he...
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C-1 Trooper Green's Badge This block gave me so much trouble because things weren't lining up. But then I thought "Bugger it, it's only looking obvious because it's just one little block" so ...
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A-5 Cathie's Campfire This was my first ever attempt at Geese- I had never made them before. Hence, I kinda screwed them up. But I wasn't in a perfectionist kind of mood tonight- I just wante...