Jane's Rocket

Here are the Jane Babies I finished this week. They were all from my hand-work tote.

D-8

D-11

D-12

E-10

F-12

LS-6

When I entered the piece counts for this week's finishes on the spreadsheet, it told me I was up to 1992 pieces. It just bugged me. It was like it was saying "Neener, neener, neener!" being so close to a perfectly even 2000. I was tempted to finish one more Baby to top that number, but yesterday I prepped the next double-set of Babies to work on (the rest of the catch-up, by the way, woohoo!) and right now I am SICK TO DEATH of Jane. 

But it BUGGED me! So I pulled my Jane Box out of the bureau drawer and fished out all the loose Babies.  

Then I gritted my teeth and sewed 8 sashing pieces on (and ONLY 8) so I could get that spreadsheet total to 2000.

Silly me.  :D    But I'm not going to sew anymore Jane stuff today. Machine or hand. She can just cool her jets for a day or two.   Maybe I'll take the family to Batman instead. And a bike ride along Cottonwood Creek Trail. And maybe we'll try some disc golf on that public course along the trail. Oh, wait - Scott says those aren't frisbies they use, but real-live golf discs, which are a little bit different. Maybe we'll have to try that some other day - Something to look forward to.

Row E is completed!

I know some of you are following my blog and will have seen this post already...........

BUT, it is very exciting. My next aim is row F by the end of June.

We'll see.......!!!

Quilting my DJ

I'm slowly hand quilting my DJ, I machine quilted all the sashing with a serpentine stitch as some parts of my sashing weren't as straight as they could be and the straight line of quilting that I started with just looked wrong.

 F-10 Potholder

I've been trying to quilt at least one block most days, I thread up quite a few needles so I don't lose momentum once I start the quilting.  I have no particular plan of how I will quilt each block, I just look at them for a bit and let the block decide.

 E-10 Five and Dime

The block above was one of my first attempts at applique, by the time I finished all the blocks I had improved 100%

G-10 Woven Meadow