Thursday 21 December 2017

Dear Jane Count

The Dear Jane Quilt  - counting the pieces
The Dear Jane Quilt  - counting the pieces
I have taken some time today to count my Dear Jane pieces.  As you may know, the original has her name and a count of all the pieces in the original Dear Jane quilt.  It is a job I have been putting off, thinking it would be long a tedious, but no so.  I also managed to find some rogue paper pieces along the way.  In total I have 5163 pieces in my Dear Jane quilt.  Jane Stickle had 5602.  I have clearly introduced modern day efficiencies into mine.  All I need to do now is to embroider the details onto the quilt.  Can you think of any other cryptic messages I should include?

5 comments:

  1. Remarkable!,Frances.
    I immediately thought of "sacred patience with my soul abide" in working with all those little pieces. LOL

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  2. I think you should include how you had lots of people following your progress on the internet. What an accomplishment! Merry Christmas to you and yours.

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  3. Congratulations on your accomplishment!

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  4. I'm keeping a running count on my pieces. I have a little journal that I record each block and triangle in. As I record them, I record the number of pieces in the block and a running tally. I don't want to go back and try to count them all when (finally!) it is finished. Congratulations on your completion!

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  5. I suggest the message..."Suzi, get off this quilt. It's an award winner!"

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