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The challenge is out, lets see how many of us can join the wonderful new campaign called Stitching for Pink !!! Starts today until 30 October. Its gonna be so much fun with 10 projects to complete. Come on Embroiderers lets unite and join the fight against Breast Cancer !!!
Go sign up now and let the fun begin.
http://www.stitchingforpink.org/
Hope we see you there
Mary
Must do a bunch of quilting today and tomorrow. Have a super weekend, Susan
Anyway, I do hope you have a very good day. Happy quilting!
Susan
Jane Stickle made a sampler quilt in 1863. It is 80-1/4 x 801/4 inches pieced and appliqued from cotton. It is part of the collection of the Bennington Museum. Brenda Papadakis fell in love with it . A friend of hers challenged her to draft the tiny blocks and Baby Jane was born. ON one of the corner blocks of the actual quilt is " In War Time 1863 Pieces 5602 Jane A. Stickle" Brenda drafted 225 patterns from this quilt and has put them in a book.called " Dear Jane". Each block is 41/2" square with a border of isosceles triangles. There are many, many Dear Jane groups in the World. People are fanatical when it comes to Dear Jane. The tremendous work Brenda has done to produce this book is unbelievable. The book is pictures of each block as seen in the actual quilt and then beside it is the pattern. It is not really a book for a beginner unless someone is doing with you. There are no directions just the picture. But if you are looking for a challenge this is it! Most of us are looking at it as a 4-5 yr. project. I do have a friend that did it in 6 months. How? I don't know. She is for sure a Super Woman. It is pieced except for the borders. They are done but not on yet. What is done is absolutely stunning. She did paper piece the majority of her blocks. As I suck at paper piecing I am doing mine mostly by hand. Anyway there is the Dear Jane story.
Thanks for adding me to your friends list and thank you for the kind comments on my quilts!
Mary
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