She's FINISHED! Jane is completed

I can move on with my life.
The weather has been too iffy around here so an indoor shot is what you get.
The scallops were an interesting challenge. I think I will avoid them in the future,..... or at least ones that are so tight.

Binding the Quilt

For what ever reason I developed a mental block regarding the binding of this quilt. I was dismayed that I had to assemble the material for cutting the binding by hand as well as stitch it all on, by hand.
Funny little road block, seeing how much hand work had already gone into it.
So I ignored the quilt for week, (showed it off to some friends) and today I dove in.

Sometimes you just have to wait.

After refreshing my mind re the method of making continuous bias binding, I discovered I had just enough material to do this. That had been one of those unconscious worries.
The math was pretty simple so knowing I could make well over 400 inches of binding, I started stitching, cutting, marking and assembling.

After cutting large square diagonally, it was resewn to create a diamond shape. This was then sewn into a lop-sided tube and cut into a 2.5 in. strip. (There are many examples of this method on line.)

After reading a trick to control slippage with bias materials, I heavily starched and ironed the strip into binding a French binding. The quilt was marked with a cutting line. I will use this to follow with the binding a a placement guide. 

Now...... all I have to do is stitch, for a few days!

Jane Stickle Quilt - Almost There

Most of you will have heard of this iconic American civil war era sampler quilt.
I AM plugging away and I'm almost ready to take this gal off the frame to hand finish. I've hand quilted 11 rows ( in a little over a year.....seems slow but I have been working on a few other things!!!???)

Rather than re-post, here's a link to my album in another quilt forum.
My favourite block from this row, and the choice was difficult, is below.

https://www.quiltingboard.com/members/marykatherine-u22131-albums19752.html

Row 5 For Jane

Once the weather broke this summer I was able to think about the hand quilting on the frame in my living room.
As I advance the whole piece.... I can see the centre. This looks doable! Hahahaha!

Jane Stickle Quilt - Row 4 Complete

Once the weather broke, and I finished my current projects and quilting commitments...........I had nothing to do.
I walk by my "quilt on a frame" everyday and a few days ago it was, once again, TIME.
Not all the pictures are great and not all the blocks photographed well but here are the latest 15.

The purple dot is where my air erasable pen "exploded"? It's been a few days now and it IS going. I figure another week.

This was my favourite from this row.

This one is my second choice.

I have a few busy days coming up between Thanksgiving, prepping the garden for winter, house guests and our next workshop, so I won't be starting anything major for a few weeks.
Give my brain a rest!!

Jane Stickle- Row 2

On with the hand quilting....when I had the time. It was a busy month, last.
But this second row is done. Some blocks I really liked doing....others..........Bleh!
But I'm sure that will be true again and again!

So here is row 2...