Dear Jane Progress

Having spent the morning climbing up and down a ladder to get my Dear Jane blocks up on the design wall, I am seriously pondering NOT doing the triangles.  They are about 25% done, but I'm just not sure they are worth the effort.  Not doing them would allow me to use a wider sashing for the blocks and spread them out a bit to give them some space to breath.  A simpler border treatment might allow the center blocks to shine.  Then again, maybe I am just feeling lazy and see a possible light at the end of the tunnel?  If I skip the triangles, will I always feel that I cheated and took the easy way out? Opinions please.  Triangles or no triangles?

Applique Today

Sunday is such a nice day to settle in with a needle and a thimble.  I just finished up the applique bits on 8 little Dear Jane blocks!  I could have gotten more done, but the usual weekend things were calling my name.  Laundry is more done than it was this morning.  The pool deck is cleaner too and the screen enclosure is temporarily spider web free.  Three houseplants are happy in new pots and 25 beautiful teal and purple cupcakes are ready to take to school tomorrow!  It is going to feel so odd going back in the morning after being out of class for 4 days in a row.  7th period won the contest for best class for the sub.  I even went in for three hours while Ryan and Anna had play practice yesterday and caught up on grading.  E-mail might take a day or two to dig through.  For now I'm just trying to avoid falling asleep on the couch at 8 and waking up at 3.  Daylight savings is already messing with me.  

Slowdown on Sunday

 I made lots of good progress on Dear Jane this week at my teacher test writing getaway.  It did leave me with a backlog of hand sewing though which I will enjoy working on today.  Hand sewing sounds just perfect as I have taken my machine in to the shop.  Driving it back and forth to Jacksonville knocked something loose inside and it is making a funny noise.  I borrowed Anna's machine, but she seems to have lost the quarter inch foot that fits on it.

After I finish off the applique for the 8 blocks in waiting, it looks like there are 12 more blocks in the center section.  I've procrastinated the triangles for the most part, so those will need to be next on the list.  I might go through and see if there are some nice applique only blocks to cross off the list.
I'll link this post up with Slow Stitching Sunday at Kathy's Quilts.  Head over with a nice cup of tea to see what handwork everyone is up to today.


The count so far:
169 blocks with
15 triangles
4 kites
3537 pieces