My Dear Jane Stats
169 square blocks
14 blocks made twice or thrice
3,559 pieces (in the "keeper" blocks)
100 (59%) of the "keeper" blocks have 628 fussy cuts
29 (17%) of the "keeper" blocks use directional fabrics (stripes, plaids,etc.)
Construction of the Blocks
127 (75%) hand-pieced
16 (9%) hand-appliqued
22 (13%) hand-pieced and hand-appliqued
4 (2%) machine-pieced and hand-appliqued -- these were very early blocks that I made before I completely abandoned machine piecing for this project: E10, G11, G13, J13
Posts
- My Progress
- Mosaics - virtual quilts
- Photographing blocks
- Valentines for Jane - more virtual quilts
Galleries
- Blocks
- Replacement Blocks - before and after photos
- Block Construction - redrafts and construction details
- Mosaics - virtual quilts
- Valentines for Jane - more virtual quilts
- Dear Jane Progress
- Visiting the Dear Jane Quilt - I discovered two of the blocks are made with cheater cloth!
Follow Jane, Brenda, or Minka
When Brenda's drafts look different from Jane's blocks, I either follow Brenda's draft, revise the draft and follow Jane, do my own thing, or some combo thereof! For more on this topic, visit:
- A Quilter's Journey Back in Time - look for "Dear Jane Oops" in side bar
- Connie's Quilts- a meticulous block-by-block analysis - be sure to visit her photo links (next 2 bullets)
- Connie's 2009 close-ups of Jane's quilt
- Connie's 2010 close-ups of Jane's quilt
Blocks I redrafted- A1 - Pinwheel Gone Awry
- A2 - One Two Buckle My Shoe
- A7 - Dad's Plaids
- A9 - Cabin Fever
- A12 - Framed Fancy
- A13 - Starlight-Starbright
- B4 - Chris' Soccer Field
- B5 - Hot Cross Buns
- B11 - Melissa's Cross - tutorial
- B13 - Four Corner Press Jane's block was made with cheater cloth (read about it here)
- C2 - Streak of Lightening
- C4 Tic-Tac-Toe I did not redraft it but wish I had
- C5 - Eye of the Cyclone
- C6 - Ashley's Aura
- C13 - Lakota Sioux Jane's block was made with cheater cloth (read about it here)
- D11 - Snow
- E4 - Buffalo Tree Hopper
- E8 - Momma's Maze
E11 - Wagon Wheel- F1 - Big Top
- F10 - Potholder
- G11 - Decisions, Decisions
- H2 - Jacob Anthony
- H9 - Snowflake Melt
- I11 - Coyote Chase
- I13 - Sweet Harmony
- J1 - Josepha's Jonquil
- J2 - Picture Perfect
- J12 - Rebecca's Basket
- K1 - Crooked Creek
- K4 - Thea's Turn
- K5 - Passing Through
- K12 - Doris's Dilemma
- K13 - Brandon's Star
- L2 - Stephanie's Snowflake
- L4 - St George's Cross
- L10 - Nan's Naiad
- L11 - Caitlin's Rose
- L12 - Sally's Pride I changed the orientation.
- L13 - Harvest Moon
M1 - Dogwood Days- M4 - Stepping Stones
- M6 - Simplicity
- M7 - Junko's Rose Garden
- M13 - Lynette's Diamond
Dear Jane Links
Interesting Baby Janes
- Japanese Janiacs -- check out #7; look closely at the color arrangement.
- Jane in the Round -- a clever use of the triangular blocks.
- "A Tribute to Jane" made by Patricia Mayer and Karen Watts with an all-ivory border and fabulous machine quilting on the border! See it here, here, here, and here.
- Jane with Wide Sashing -- by my estimate, this quilt has 1½ inch sashing versus the ½ inch in Brenda's book
- Jane's Addicted plans a different arrangement of the blocks. Wish I had seen this many years ago -- I might have followed her lead.
- Julia's Dear Jane with a medallion center
- Machine quilting by Green Fairy Quilts on her DJ quilt made with Kaffe Fasset fabrics.
- Quilt Inspiration wrote two terrific postings about Janiacs. Catch them here and here.
- Dutch Comfort's border triangles are made with appliqued shapes from the square blocks -- circles, teardrops, squares, diamonds. I've contemplated something much like this. Wish I could see her corners.
Janiacs- A Quilter's Journey Back in Time
- Dear Janer's Anonymous
- Janiacs Unite
- Sharon's Dear Jane Pages
- That Quilt with lots of construction tips
Jane on Flickr
